One does not wake up on a whim and say "I must visit Poland!" and I did not expect to either but I'm so glad I did. After visiting Germany, something inside of me (I'll explain this later) drew me to visit Poland to pay my respects at Auschwitz-Birkenau and I'm so glad I did. Rather than visiting the capital Warclaw, I opted for Wroclaw which was a bit cheaper and still had a work office location for me to plant myself for the weekend. This trip came before a work trip to (you guessed it Amsterdam) and so I got to spend a glorious 4 days roaming the gorgeous streets. I visited the Spa at (Members only content location) (which is also where I stayed) and I will give this hotel top marks for 2 reasons; not only was my hotel room beautiful and made me feel as Royal as Czech Republic did but the Spa was breathtaking. 10 mins around the corner in each direction was great shoppes and a Starbucks so you know I was over the moon about this and this is the city center so you will surely enjoy the buildings and activities to be done here. The biggest part of my trip that I want to talk to was my visit to Auschwitz and what happen afterwards. I rented a car because I knew I would be taking the 3 hour drive from Wroclaw to Auschwitz and was very glad I did so (you can also take many different bus tours to avoid driving but I love driving and I also get car sick in any vehicle that I'm not operating). After arriving and seeing the giant and infamous gates to the entrance I pulled together and made the walk into the concentration camp. Not only informative but insightful, this burial ground of so many wonderful people deserves to be celebrated rather than mourned. I of coarse paid my respects to the lives lost here but these brave and courages people were taken away from their daily lives to a world that they had no control over and as tragic as those events are they deserve to have their lives celebrated instead of looking on in horror. What happen to them was unimaginable but walking away from this ground after reading and taking in what happened here gave me a sense of love and calm that some of their brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, daughters and sons were able to make it out and their lives that were lost are today celebrated and gracefully put to rest. When arriving back to my hotel and as I went to sleep that night I found it incredibly difficult to rest after what I saw but whatever drew me to Poland visited me that night in the form of what felt like a little girl and comforted me. I talk more about this in the paranormal section of my site but the presence didn't feel scary or evil but very opposite from that; calming and loving and innocent like a child.
General Consensus: Unless you have a strict focus like I did or have business to take care of in Poland I don't highly recommend visiting Poland. It is very affordable but won't appeal to the average traveler and doesn't have any particular points of interest. Visiting Auschwitz was a very personal calling for me that to this day I can't really understand or explain but if you are close to the country or also have an interest in educating yourself on these events that is when I would say make your way to Poland. I also didn't get a chance to visit Warclaw so that could be a completely different experience.
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