We visited salt mines which are 10 minutes away from Krakow. It was 14 degrees Celsius (or 57 degrees Fahrenheit). We traveled more than 400 feet into the earth by a very fast elevator. It dropped quickly and Sami started to growl, ” Bear me please!” The miners were very talented and carved all[...]
Archive for the ‘Poland’ Category
Visiting a Concentration Camp in Lublin & Auschwitz
I was bearly awake from a busy morning, so I went to sleep on the bus as we traveled to Lublin. This was the Polish Jerusalem because so many Jewish people lived there to study at the Yeshivas. Many people studied there to become rabbis. I went to a very sad place called Mydonik Concentration [...][...]
Real Little Heroes from History
We went on a city tour of Warsaw. Before World War 11, there was about 380,000 Jewish people living in this community. Every third person was Jewish and Warsaw had the second largest Jewish population outside of New York City! I wonder if there were that many Jewish bears! We went to visit a l[...]
Yummy Food in Poland
Being a brown bear, I get very hungry. We are actually eating very well! Yesterday we had a wonderful lunch at a restaurant that just serves pirogues. They are dumplings that are stuffed with whatever you want. In Yiddish they are called “kreplach”. My pirogues had potatoes and different type of[...]
Sami Arrives in Warsaw, Poland
Dzien Dobry from Warsaw! That means hello! ( it is pronounced as JEN DAWBRY We needed to exchange our American Dollar to Polish Zlotis, since they use a different currency in Poland than in America. We arrived safely and sound in Warsaw, the capital of Poland! We all had a great flight, except I fou[...]
Sami Travels to Poland
Sami, the bear, travels is one its way to Poland. He has his passport and jumps on a plane from the Polish airline, LOT. The pilot was very nice and allowed him to visit the cockpit.[...]