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Photos: Poland and Czech

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Ok, so it’s been a while between photos, but you’re all probably still recovering from that self portrait shot up in the mountains, yeah this one. Nasty, nasty stuff.

So, to get you back in the photo swing, here’s a few from the past few weeks, starting in Poland, and then heading into the Czech Republic.

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Oswiecim: Words?

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

Oswiecim is a small place about an hour and a half from Krakow, in the Southwest of Poland. It is quiet, a bit dusty, bathed in yellow leaves falling from trees. Rows of tour buses sit in a parking lot, people depart from them and walk solemnly towards a red brick building. Groups of school kids stand around outside the building, joking and laughing the way only school kids can. It is a clear day, but there is a bit of chill coming in on the wind. The Germans had a different name for Oswiecim during the Second World War. Auschwitz, they called it.

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