Coming from Manchester, I was curious to visit Lodz, which is nicknamed the “Polish Manchester”. Just like Manchester, the city has a rich textile manufacturing industry, although it sadly fell into decline after World War Two. As with many Polish towns and cities, its name is pronounced nothing like how it is spelt. Actually pronounced …
Wieliczka Salt Mine, which can be found 10km from Krakow, is one of Poland’s most popular tourist attractions, yet funnily I was unfamiliar with it before I arrived there. In fact, the mine is quite estraordinary, and was inscribed in 1978 as one of the first 12 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The salt mine is a complex …
Whilst I was on the #inpoland blog trip with the Polish Tourism Board, we had the chance to try some traditional Polish food. The food in Poland is hearty and filling, so don’t expect to be counting calories here! Zurek Sour Soup Meals usually started with a soup, and at Pod Fredra in Wroclaw we …
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There were piles and piles of shoes- each shoe representing a human being, another senseless killing. They had been treated as objects, not people. Auschwitz Concentration Camp is quite simply, Hell on Earth. I was in two minds about visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau. On the one hand I felt strange about being a tourist to something so …
Whilst the colourful city of Wroclaw has plenty of impressive buildings, the thing I’ll remember most about Wroclaw is something a little smaller…the army of tiny gnomes! Before I go on…if you’re reading this aloud in your head thinking Wroclaw is pronounced something along the lines of “War-claw” or “Raw-claw” as I thought, it’s not. …
