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Warsaw & Krakow

  • 23-05-2005 10:41pm
    #1
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭


    Looks like Im off to Warsaw and Krakow in November for 2 days each. Has anyone been to either place?

    Im hoping to find out how cheap or expensive it is for food, shopping, etc.

    Ive heard Poland isnt a bad spot for buying electronics and clothes too. True??

    Im also gathering up the guts to go to Auschwitz. Something tells me its something I should see, but Im not sure I'll have the stomach for it.

    Any thoughts on Poland in general?
    Thanks!


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  • #2
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    Any advice? Headin off in a couple of weeks...


  • #3
    Padraig Mor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,610 ✭✭✭Padraig Mor


    Hmmm.....posts seem to have disappeared in the upgrade. Anyway, check out www.inyourpocket.com - comprehensive guides to loads of Eastern European cities and..er... Belfast (!).


  • #4
    Garibaldi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Garibaldi


    Likewise. Well, the nutshell version of what I was saying was Warsaw bad, Krakow good. That's firsthand experience coupled with the opinion of some Poles I know.


  • #5
    jonny68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,531 ✭✭✭jonny68


    There are some people from Krakow who drink in my local sometimes and they tell me it's dirt cheap for almost everything and did say (probably biast anyway) that it was a lovely place but it's somewhere id like to check out someday for sure.;)


  • #6
    Pythia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Trotter wrote:
    Im also gathering up the guts to go to Auschwitz. Something tells me its something I should see, but Im not sure I'll have the stomach for it.

    Go to Auschwitz. It's pretty harrowing stuff though but I went when I was fifteen. They have rooms full of shoes and other personal items the prisoners brought in with them, or shower rooms they gased people in.


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  • #7
    FX Meister
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    It's well worth going to Auschwitz. Get the public bus though. The tourist office will push the tour bus which is something like €20, the public bus was about €3. I didn't get to see too much of Warsaw, just the old town, due to stolen passports in Hungary folowed by a sleepless night and then a wedding. The old part of Krakow was much bigger. It is a cheaper country but I didn't look at electronics while there.


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