July 22, 2011
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
Photos from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and State Museum....
July 21, 2011
On giving up.
I can't listen to classical music without choreographing ballets in my head. When I was younger I wanted to be a dancer. I attended numerous classes a week: ballet, jazz, contemporary. It was a good way for a shy girl to express herself without having...
July 20, 2011
Good nights cancel out bad mornings.
After it took going to three ticket counters to find someone who would sell me a ticket to Krakow. After it took three people to help me figure out which track my train was coming on. After I had to stand for three hours on...
With an asterisk
In the morning of my last day in Warsaw a guy came up to me in the hostel. He had left his computer charger behind and was wondering if he could borrow mine. I said OK and he left his laptop charging at the front...
July 16, 2011
Somewhere.
I have a confession. This is a trip I want to have done. That's not to say that it's not something I want to be doing. But I wish I had already done it already. That I had traveled throughout my 20s. That I didn't...
July 15, 2011
Warsaw, Poland.
Warsaw is an interesting place. It's both so full of history and so brand new at the same time. Walking around the old town almost feels like walking around a Disney park, like it was made to look old but was all really built in...
July 14, 2011
I found Poland!
It was my first biggest concern: finding Poland. When I left for Berlin with no concrete plans past those first 5 days I had it my head that there was a good chance that I would never figure my way out of there. But I managed....
Table for One: What I ate in Berlin.
I'm not one of those backpackers who is content to make pasta in the hostel kitchen. I like to eat. I like to go out to eat. I like to try new foods and cuisines. It's a hard thing to do, when you're in a...
July 11, 2011
All by myself: traveling to Berlin alone.
I'm not going to lie. So far this trip has been hard. Traveling to Berlin alone has been hard. It's been getting better, I'm no longer getting as lost, I'm getting more familiar with what paths I need to take. But I'm leaving for Warsaw...