Celebrating D-Day on Hel Peninsula, Poland: Travelogue
Just because World War II’s D-Day invasion didn’t happen in Poland’s Hel Peninsula, and didn’t occur in the month of August, doesn’t mean you can’t…
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Four Days in Krakow (Poland 2012)
We arrived in Kraków late in the evening after a few hours in a bus from town of Zakopane after a few memorable days…
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A Day Trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp (Poland 2012)
The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and execution camp represents some of the worst humanity has had to offer. It served as the largest concentration camp established…
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Zakopane, Giewont, Morskie Oko and the Tatra Mountains (Poland 2012)
It was August high season and the mountain town of Zakopane (elevation 800-1000m) was characteristically mobbed by vacationing Polish families and stag/hen groupings. All…
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A Short Visit to Warsaw (Poland 2012)
Warsaw’s charms aren’t immediately apparent, but that’s not really Warsaw’s fault. The Nazis destroyed 85% of the city in WWII in revenge for the failed…
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