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Ruminations on an Auschwitz Tour

Rachel Heller — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 08:01:00 +0000

Ruminations on a tour of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where Nazis turned genocide into an industrial enterprise, efficiently turning over a million souls to ashes.

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Rynek Underground Museum at Krakow Main Square

Rachel Heller — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 16:48:54 +0000

Krakow’s Old Town is centered around a lovely main square called Rynek Główny, which means main market. It dates to 1257, when it was rebuilt after the Mongol-Tatar invasions. Krakow Main Square Krakow Main Market Square forms the focal point of Krakow Old Town, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the center of the...

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Wieliczka Krakow salt mine isn’t just a salt mine!

Rachel Heller — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:32:48 +0000

The Wieliczka Krakow salt mine is much more than tunnels carved into salt. It has a history all its own, and, surprisingly, it has artworks made of salt!

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Urban Adventures Krakow food tour review

Rachel Heller — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:11:01 +0000

Polish food doesn’t have the excellent reputation of, say, French cuisine or Thai cooking. Frankly, it’s not something I ever really thought about. So when I traveled to Krakow for an influencer conference and was offered a place on an Urban Adventures Krakow food tour, I figured, “Why not?” I had minimal expectations of the...

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A Krakow Tour with a Twist

Rachel Heller — Thu, 31 May 2018 17:31:33 +0000

Crazy Guides’ communism tour advertises a visit to Nowa Huta, a “model communist city.” Built starting in the 1950s, this experiment in communist community-building is considered a landmark of Soviet-era socialist architecture and urban planning. I signed up for the tour with low expectations. I thought that the phrase our tour guide kept using, “worker’s paradise,”...

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