Wandering Gary and Olive go home

Wandering Gary and Olive go home

This is my final post from my Polish Exploration.  It is early Saturday morning and I am back home with my dogs at my feet and an ice pack on my low back. Pictured below a Kabob stand where I ate many of the Pita or Tortilla filled creations.  It was roasted chicken...
Communism and Nowa Huta

Communism and Nowa Huta

To provide some contrast to seeing the concentrations camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, I decided to go on a light hearted trip back in time to an example of the perfect communist town of Nowa Huta ( which means New Steel Mill).http://www.answers.com/topic/nowa-huta  I...
How I spent my day on 9/11

How I spent my day on 9/11

As fate would have it, I went to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in Poland on 9/11/11.  The day where everyone all over the world was remembering and reflecting on Wars.  Television broadcasts from all over the world spent most of their time talking and...
Beautiful Krakow

Beautiful Krakow

After a very long and painful train ride I arrived just before dark in Krakow.  When I walked to the main town square for the first time I went, “YEA, now this is what I’m talking about”.  Warsaw was pretty much a huge dark and grey ugly city for the...
A very long overdue BLOG entry

A very long overdue BLOG entry

I have been remiss in writing my BLOG this trip.  I spent 3 nights in Warsaw.  No, the bowl of soup is not Polish soup, but Vietnamese Pho.  I had one day of walk around Warsaw and then the next day it rained all day.  I had a taxi take me to the Vietnamese...