Poland!
Poland! A country that is slightly more slavic than the one I'm living in now. What a treat to be able to finally visit this country, and with school. Here's a summary of my 2 day trip!
Day 1: We left Brno at 6:00 AM from the Brno RegioJet bus stop to travel first to Kraków. The trip was about 3 hours. We arrived at the Kraków castle at about 9:45 and we took a while to tour amongst ourselves around the castle grounds. This castle is probably one of the most beautiful castles I've seen in Europe so far. After the castle viewing, we walked into the old town centre right into the main square. This was probably the biggest main square I have ever seen. It had 1 tower, 1 cathedral and 1 main indoor market. In this market there were many different booths with people who had (most of the time) made their own items to sell. We were given free time to go and look around for a while, so I went with the guys in my class to the cathedral, which again was one of the most beautiful I've seen so far, and then lunch at a nice Italian restaurant.
The whole group met up again (which consisted of people from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of my high school here in Brno), and we walked out of the old town centre to a mall, where we were given free time again, we then went over to an old Polish university campus to get a brief tour/explanation of the university's history. The day in Krakόw was over at about 3pm, where we travelled to a town about 14km away called Wieliczka to go to the salt mine there! It was the biggest mine that I've ever seen! The place had tour guides for different languages. We got a Czech tour guide and went down probably 100 flights of stairs down to the bottom. The tour was full of history, we saw recreations of how the mine was built, activities of it now, an amazing underground church and also amazing creations of salt! The tour took about 2-3 hours, then we headed off to the small motel where we ate dinner. Lights out was at 10:00 PM.
Day 2: We were up at 8:00, to head into Krakόw for the second day in Poland! We saw the historical Jewish quarter, walked into the centre and were given free time, and also time for lunch. After we returned to the bus to drive to one of the most important parts of our trip: Auschwitz; located near the town of Oświęcim. This experience was very eye opening as to what happened inside the fences of the camp that a lot of the world was unaware of at the time. As said by George Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
An amazing experience altogether. And if anyone goes to Poland, I suggest knowing what actual currency they use, instead of being like me assuming they use the euro.
Anyways thanks for reading! More to come soon!
Day 1: We left Brno at 6:00 AM from the Brno RegioJet bus stop to travel first to Kraków. The trip was about 3 hours. We arrived at the Kraków castle at about 9:45 and we took a while to tour amongst ourselves around the castle grounds. This castle is probably one of the most beautiful castles I've seen in Europe so far. After the castle viewing, we walked into the old town centre right into the main square. This was probably the biggest main square I have ever seen. It had 1 tower, 1 cathedral and 1 main indoor market. In this market there were many different booths with people who had (most of the time) made their own items to sell. We were given free time to go and look around for a while, so I went with the guys in my class to the cathedral, which again was one of the most beautiful I've seen so far, and then lunch at a nice Italian restaurant.
The whole group met up again (which consisted of people from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of my high school here in Brno), and we walked out of the old town centre to a mall, where we were given free time again, we then went over to an old Polish university campus to get a brief tour/explanation of the university's history. The day in Krakόw was over at about 3pm, where we travelled to a town about 14km away called Wieliczka to go to the salt mine there! It was the biggest mine that I've ever seen! The place had tour guides for different languages. We got a Czech tour guide and went down probably 100 flights of stairs down to the bottom. The tour was full of history, we saw recreations of how the mine was built, activities of it now, an amazing underground church and also amazing creations of salt! The tour took about 2-3 hours, then we headed off to the small motel where we ate dinner. Lights out was at 10:00 PM.
Day 2: We were up at 8:00, to head into Krakόw for the second day in Poland! We saw the historical Jewish quarter, walked into the centre and were given free time, and also time for lunch. After we returned to the bus to drive to one of the most important parts of our trip: Auschwitz; located near the town of Oświęcim. This experience was very eye opening as to what happened inside the fences of the camp that a lot of the world was unaware of at the time. As said by George Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
An amazing experience altogether. And if anyone goes to Poland, I suggest knowing what actual currency they use, instead of being like me assuming they use the euro.
Anyways thanks for reading! More to come soon!
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