Krakow:
Friday, November 8
Dark morning - same breakfast as yesterday, add hotdogs - hotel
restaurant clean, yellow and white - Joy! Pollera is available for
another night!
To bus station with bananas and mineral water just bought - front
seat bus ride to Auschwitz
Two camps: Auschwitz I and II (Birkenau) - rooms full of the thick
memory of human lives not lived as such, but as if deserving of
humiliating waste - somber observation of the expansive, utterly
effective acres upon acres - much evidence remains despite the
destruction by retreating Nazis
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Rain - retreat to catch bus only to be disappointed - feeling
remote - very Polish - train station across street - quick purchase -
slow ride back to Krakow among students of all ages - plain,
attractive, or otherwise people - catnaps
Still bleak, but breaking sky - sleeeeeeep for an hour
Krakow at night - sun sets by 4:30pm - back to Balaton - blue
napkins this time - big meal for $25 - overhear sales pitch by
American to South African
Slow walk back - stop at "Drink Bar" with fabulous interior of low
arches painted with depictions of Polish history - brown colors, maps,
words - young people and strong cigarettes - drunken Pole thrown out
by bartenderess - call it a night and wake up late