Poland and Prague: another random grouping for expediency’s sake. Besides their first letters, these two don’t have much in common (especially since one is a country and one is city… but let’s not split hairs here :-), except they happened to fall next to each other in our itinerary… and be two places where we […]
Auschwitz
When Chris and I started planning our RTW trip, we made a short list of our absolute must sees for the year. The Great Wall of China. Borobudur. The Kremlin. The Taj Mahal. Machu Picchu. And Auschwitz. That last one certainly sticks out from among the rest. But Auschwitz was just one of those places […]
The Golden Age and Dark Days of Krakow
We planned to spend the bulk of our week in Poland in Krakow, the cultural capital of the country. Krakow was also the governmental capital of Poland throughout much of the land’s history and is still bitter about King Sigismund III moving the official center to Warsaw in 1596. [Funny bit of folklore about that, […]
Warsaw’s Phoenix Story
After Lithuania, we took a 7.5-hour bus ride to Warsaw (which we initially thought was 6.5 hours and were already dreading, but then forgot that we gained an hour when we entered into Poland). We didn’t have high expectations for Warsaw and were only really going to take advantage of a buy one, get one Club […]