Poland/Auschwitz/Czech Republic

Krakow

Giant head in Krakow

Hot Air Balloon

Czech Republic House

This is where I woke up and each track had a different train on it...and there was no one around.

Beautiful sunset in Auschwitz.

Crematorium chimney in Auschwitz

Inside the crematorium.

Walkway in Auschwitz

All the shoes the nazi's collected from their prisoners.

All the walls in every building had pictures of the prisoners

This is human hair.

Auschwitz

Auschwitz was great, it was peaceful and there were white petals falling down like snow...quite odd for a place that such horrible things happened.

That night was horrible tho, i got stuck at the train station and i was alone and there were creepy drunk guys shouting at me in polish. A creepy man came in the station and sat right next to me on a bench, when there were multiple other benches. After finishing reading the page I was on in my book, I got up and went outside. It was dark, so I just sat under a light on the cold concrete to read my book. Then it started to rain. My book was not helping, it was about rich New Yorkers who were complaining that their 3 floor apartment isn't big enough, written by the woman who wrote Sex and the City, as I sat on concrete in the rain. The rain sent me over the edge, I was officially scared. If I got stuck there, the only hotel was next door and looked to be abandoned. I called my mom, in tears, it was so bad, i never want to do that again.

I finally got on a night train to budapest (even tho it was labeled to go to Vienna), but didnt get a sleeper and had to sleep in a seat, like the Harry Potter compartments, and was woken by a woman screaming at me not in english, telling me get off the train. I was in the middle of nowhere. I didn't know what scary was, until I woke up being yelled at in another language and not knowing where I was. Luckily a train worker put me on another train that went to an actual station, which was quite frightening as well b/c I still didnt know where I was. I ended up in prague, Czech Republic. I was so frustrated, I got the first train back to poland, and luckily things turned around, i met 2 english guys (and an australian guy) who were backpacking, going the same place as me, so i sat with them and talked and the english guys and I ended up getting a room together in a hostel in Krakow, they were so nice. I finally felt safe again, and I never want to be out after dark in a foreign country or take another train.