Friday Lviv to Krakow, Poland

Border days are allways difficult but this one passed smoothly if slowly. The difference was immediate. Poland was "landscaped". What a delightful ride through picturesque countryside. It was a main road ride but not a bad one as wel had a decent ride of 350k to do after the border that we got through at 1.30pm.
Krakow is an old royal city and we had two nights here.
Day two was a walking round the city which was fine except the group left two of us behind so we did a walk through the square which was full of activity and music. Great fun amongst some magnificent old buildings.
We went to Auschwitz that afternoon. Not my cup of tea as I know that man is really an animal with very few interests other than greed but I was shaken. The writings on the walls claimed this should not happen again, which made me even more disappointed because it still is happening......different methods different people but the same outcome. Of course we will never learn. The same reason there is a banking crisis is the same reason there was an Auschwitz. Greed. What I have seen round the world as I travel is the result of greed. A race of peoples in South America wiped out by the Spanish. All over Europe peoples are just obliterated. No wonder there are walls erected to keep the occupants safe, our present civilisation (ie the last 3000 odd years) have been spent fighting for territory. Now we have torn down the barriers. East has moved to the west and the south and everywhere else as well so what is "national interest" ? Who cares about what happens as long as the people with no welfare are moving to countries that have welfare the greater the risk of calamity because how can the few support the many. So me culture becomes dominant.
What to do ?
So we were in the city that had seen so much wrong doing, so much war, and so many people died in vein. The final footnote was the shock that so many people had been railroaded from round Europe to die here.
A very old and wonderful city yet with such a sobering record. There has been fighting here for many many years.
However after spending 3 nights here for what could have been done in two is disappointing having rushed through so much on the way.
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