http://slazyk.com/2005/05/aunt-jane-uncle-steve-leave-for-europe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aunt-jane-uncle-steve-leave-for-europe Family Posts & Whatever Else Is On My Mind Sun, 06 May 2012 05:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://slazyk.com/2005/05/aunt-jane-uncle-steve-leave-for-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Jane Slazyk Lockett Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:33:00 +0000 http://www.slazyk.com/?p=6#comment-5 We had a wonderful time in Central and Eastern Eruope and Steve is pulling together our pictures. In particular photos of NovyTarg, Oswiciem and Krakow turned out pretty well. Krakow is a vital, beautiful city with wonderful people. We stayed at the Grand Hotel, which was a palace at one time. Our room was wonderful. Visiting Wavel Castle is a mystical experience. Seeing the magic dragon and learning about many myths and legends of Krakow brought back many memories of stories from my childhood. It seems as if every other building in Krakow was a church. Almost everyone spoke some English, which was better than our Polish! The people are hardworking and eager to improve their lives. Oswiciem was a very rural town and visiting Auschwitz I and Auschwitz Berkenau took almost four hours. We had a wonderful tour guide, Aga. Aga was about 20 years old and is committed to showing the world how the truth about the Holocaust. I am glad that we went. I am glad to know that my grandparents left this area before this terrible tragedy occured. NovyTarg was a very small town, much like Charleston, Illinois! Tru;ly, there was a town square, and on the evening we were there, everyone was gathered at various ice cream parlors, around their cars and talking with their friends. We stopped a young couple and asked for the name of a good local restaurant and they sent us to the "villa tuscany" - Italian! Leaving NovyTarg we drove through the Tatra Mountains into the Slovak Republic on the way to Bratislava and to Vienna. More to follow. We had a wonderful time in Central and Eastern Eruope and Steve is pulling together our pictures. In particular photos of NovyTarg, Oswiciem and Krakow turned out pretty well. Krakow is a vital, beautiful city with wonderful people. We stayed at the Grand Hotel, which was a palace at one time. Our room was wonderful. Visiting Wavel Castle is a mystical experience. Seeing the magic dragon and learning about many myths and legends of Krakow brought back many memories of stories from my childhood. It seems as if every other building in Krakow was a church. Almost everyone spoke some English, which was better than our Polish! The people are hardworking and eager to improve their lives. Oswiciem was a very rural town and visiting Auschwitz I and Auschwitz Berkenau took almost four hours. We had a wonderful tour guide, Aga. Aga was about 20 years old and is committed to showing the world how the truth about the Holocaust. I am glad that we went. I am glad to know that my grandparents left this area before this terrible tragedy occured. NovyTarg was a very small town, much like Charleston, Illinois! Tru;ly, there was a town square, and on the evening we were there, everyone was gathered at various ice cream parlors, around their cars and talking with their friends. We stopped a young couple and asked for the name of a good local restaurant and they sent us to the “villa tuscany” – Italian! Leaving NovyTarg we drove through the Tatra Mountains into the Slovak Republic on the way to Bratislava and to Vienna. More to follow.

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