Poland 5: Zakopane to Wadowice to Kalwaria to Krakow

It’s sad to leave the pine-covered mountains of Zakopane. The hotel here has been very comfortable and it will be hard to get people on the bus to leave 🙂  But this morning we head to Wadowice which is the birthplace of St. Pope John Paul II, known then as Karl Józef Wojtyła. Here we’ll […]

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Poland 3: Warsaw to Czestochowa to Zakopane

Today we say goodbye to Warsaw as we travel south to Czestochowa where we had Mass (homily here) and where we saw the famous “Black Madonna“. We had lunch and walked around the grounds a bit before boarding the bus again and heading further south to the border between Poland and Slovakia into the mountains […]

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