As even the most casual student of WWII history probably knows, Auschwitz was the most notorious and deadly of all the many Nazi concentration camps. Today the site is a Museum and a sobering Memorial to…
Certainly the most essential day trip when traveling in Gdansk Poland is a visit to Malbork Castle. After all, it’s the largest castle in the world! How can you miss that! And fortunately, taking a day…
Gdansk is one of Poland’s most beautiful and most-visited cities. This scenic gem sits on Poland’s Baltic coast and has long held the title of Poland’s most important port city – a distinction dating all the…
During our monthlong stay in Poland, we used the Polish train system to get us from city to city. Our itinerary included stops in Warsaw, Wroclaw, Gdansk, and Krakow. We depended exclusively on trains to get…
Visiting Wroclaw Poland wasn’t part of my original Poland travel itinerary. Krakow was of course – it’s Poland’s most famous destination for tourists. Gdansk too. And I envisioned time in Warsaw as well, since it was…
I remember first becoming aware of Spain’s Holy Week (Semana Santa in Spanish) while watching the Granada episode of Anthony Bourdain’s travel show. I quickly became intrigued by both the pageantry and the devotion I witnessed…