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This past September, I was fortunate enough to travel to Poland with my family. We arranged a tour through Pat<br />
Tours-the “Best of Poland” tour, which would take us to Warsaw, Czestochowa, Auschwitz, Zakopane, Krakow,<br />
and back to Warsaw.<br />
In Warsaw, we were<br />
taken to a local<br />
restaurant, where<br />
we enjoyed a four<br />
course meal and<br />
folklore show. We<br />
toured Lazienki<br />
Park, the Jewish<br />
ghetto Memorial,<br />
and Old Town,<br />
where we were also<br />
given access to the<br />
Royal Castle. We<br />
also attended a<br />
piano recital featuring<br />
music by Frederic<br />
Chopin.<br />
On the way to Zakopane,<br />
we stopped<br />
in Czestochowa and<br />
Auschwitz. We arrived<br />
at the Jasna Gora Monastery just in time to see the Black Madonna before it was veiled for the afternoon.<br />
In Auschwitz we toured buildings that have been converted into educational spaces that explain how the concentration<br />
camps operated.<br />
Once in Zakopane, we toured the town before taking a cable car ride to the top of Gubalowka Mountain. After<br />
spending time browsing and eating handmade cheese in the market, we took a raft trip down the Dunajec River.<br />
It was very cold!<br />
In Krakow, we toured the Wawel Coronation Cathedral<br />
and castle and Old Town Square (home of St.<br />
Mary's Church). After purchasing some souvenirs<br />
at the Cloth Hall (and spending some time in the E.<br />
Wedel chocolate store), we spent the afternoon in the<br />
Wieliczka Salt Mine. Our final dinner with our tour<br />
group was in a charming restaurant in the Jewish district,<br />
complete with a trio of Jewish folk musicians.<br />
It was a trip to remember.<br />
Photographs by David Hopkins<br />
Be s t o f po l a n D to u r<br />
by<br />
Jennifer Trentowski Hopkins<br />
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