
Nate and Kara explore Krakow's Jewish Quarter on a free walking tour, visiting Schindler's List sites and Holocaust memorials. While skateboarding home afterward, Nate crashes and breaks their new camera's LCD screen and autofocus. They grab food from local trucks and talk about visiting Auschwitz.
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We just finished breakfast. If you're in Krakow, moment is the only place we've eaten breakfast. But I think it's got to be one of the best. Now we have like two hours to kill before our walking tour. So we're gonna take our clothes over to Charlie and Gels and do some laundry because their Airbnb has a washing machine.
We have laundry.
That's it. Well, we'll see.
There are, there are a lot of free walking tours that you can do here in Krakow. And today doing the one of the.
Jewish Quarter, like two hours.
Absolutely.
Obviously the best one.
Right?
And the best choice. And by the way, we are number one on, on Trip Advis.
We're taking a five minute break from our tour. We've learned that this is where the movie Schindler's List was filmed.
It's my favorite part.
It's beautiful.
One of the nicest Jewish times.
During our break, Nate went home and got our skateboards. Now we're starting the second part of the dance.
This is called the Love Bridge.
When we cross the bridge over the river, we cross into the old Jewish ghetto. And all these chairs behind us are a memorial to a lot of the Jews who were killed in concentration camps in war camps and stuff like that. Because this was the main hub where they would gather all the Jews before they took them off to the concentration camps.
The Jewish graveyard. If you see Jewish tombstones from 19th, 20th century, you will see the very same shape of these tombstones, this arch shape.
Tour descended. It was good. I'd say it got a lot more interesting to me. Thank you for interrupting me with your sneeze. Sorry.
We got a free map.
I'd say it got a lot more interesting to me after we crossed over the river into the old Jewish ghetto and started learning more about like the Holocaust stuff. For sure. All in all, it was good.
Jelly, you photobombed lot of these today.
I think it was a good intro to When We Go to Auschwitz.
Yes. And we've ended here at the Schindler Museum, which we've heard is free on Monday morning. So we're planning on coming back here tomorrow. And now we're going to skate home.
Ungracefully.
You may have noticed that the scene where we were skating back after the tour was over ended pretty abruptly. And that's because we had a slight catastrophe. When I say slight, I mean large catastrophe.
This is now what our new camera looks like.
Still, it technically works, but just like half of the LCD screen and the auto focus doesn't. Work either. So it's pretty much useless.
I was skating home. There was a car behind me. I was trying to go fast to get into the bike lane so that the car didn't hit me. At some point, I turned around to like, look at the car. And then something terrible happened. Still not exactly sure what it was. My board stopped. I kept going. My survival instincts took over. The camera ejected from my hand 20ft out in front of me onto the concrete. Honestly, I'm surprised it works at all.
I didn't get hit by a car, which is good, but I'm super frustrated with myself because I would have gladly sacrificed my body for the camera, but my instincts just made me like, chuck it way out in front of me. So back to this old camera that has the spot somewhere in here.
Kara's been really nice about it. She's not mad at me. At least she doesn't act like she's mad at me. Are you mad? Just glad you didn't get hit by a car.
So frustrating. I'm like holding out this small hope that it's possible to replace the LCD screen and the camera's not like, lost forever. But I think even if you could replace the LCD screen, I doubt that I'll be able to get it done here and not back in the us.
So I'd say this one's gonna travel around in the bag probably till we get back in December.
We saw some awesome looking food trucks down the road, so we're gonna take the old vlogging camera down there and get some dinner.
She saw a sushi truck down the road, which is really why we're Polish. Sushi. That sounds weird to me.
The Sushi Dragons closed. Only chocolates closed.
Going with the burger because I'm a sucker for goat cheese.
How was your burger?
It's so good. Thank you for the price. What is that?
It's like pulled pork with bacon and dill pickles. Oh, it smells amazing.
I expected it to taste like southern barbecue. It's got like a sweeter flavor to it, but it's really good. Polish style Polish barbecue. The food was delicious. Now we are sitting here.
Googling and learning about World War II, which I'm sure we've both been taught about in school, like 10 times. Teachers trying to, like, pound it in our head and, like, make us care. But up until this point in our life, we've never, like, really cared to understand it, but now we do because we're here.
This is where it started.
I have to know more.
Want to figure out how to make my kids care in the beginning before they come to Poland.
I think we should just bring our kids to Poland.
I don't know. Just having some deep thoughts right now. Maybe we'll just bring our kids around Europe and homeschool them about history instead of sending them to history class.
I think that's the way to go.
Welcome to Poland. Here we have a very interesting contraption called the washing machine.
In Polish, we say kaput. I think I need a bigger spoon. Shut the door. Very nice construction. I don't know if you have this in America. Repeat sports because you're stinky.
Oh, miss, this fluttery thing.
Don't stop. Yay.










