GONE Dutch...

Monday, July 09, 2007

budapest day 1

yix head is such a spoiler man... haha

some art building... beats esplanade anytime. :)

same same (place) but different (building)

i always wanted to try out these kinda maze... and so we did, looking like real tourist.

the view

the dudes.... extreme right is our local guide, martin

cool right? sinking columns

martin's ice-cream treat for us...

maze up close...

one of the 7 bridges that links buda from pest...

too bad the church was un renovation, its made of limestone, thus the need to maintain ir from all the pollution we are producing..

wad a view!

one of the things that had to pay, which we of cos didnt so here is the pic (from the outside, budget budget!)

this bridge is totally assembled from nuts and blots... think its called the chain bridge

parliment house...

in some church... dunno how they manage to get such money to furnish it.. hmmm

its a hand that was preserved in it...

love the art... makes me think i'm heaven...

cant remember wad is the name but looks like the freedom bridge..

museum which we did not visit... haha

scary building w/o any windows..

Friday, June 22, 2007

krakow, euro trip 2

our only few pic of the castle in krakow... cos it was raining and it was a sunday so meaning things are all closed, SUCKS

flowers of the castle...

hey, its a real road sign... hahaha

this too...

cool number plate...

castle from the outside...

according to our (fake) guide yix, the tiles on the side with names are the pple of royal family... up to u to believe or not, heh

pic of krakow from the helicopter we took... i wished.... haha

the square

who is fuck is this? our guide Yix failed to answer it. Boo

Auschwitz - Birkenau (Krakow trip)

Auschwitz - Birkenau

It was the biggest concentration camp i have seen in my life! Imagine they had 3 camps there, Auschwitz 1, 2 and 3 (which is just a factory to process the hair and all of the Jews and produce other Nazi items) . However, U might wonder why i have swayed off my usual style of the 1 pic 1 caption. Ok, truth is , there is too much depression information which i think is better to omit and also there is a too many pics to upload :P. Anyway, the thing one should appreciate is that this place, Auschwitz, is actually quite a beautiful place and one can even think about living here if not for the history and bloodshed that has plagued this scenic place now.

The famous words "Arbeit Macht Frei" is clearly seen here. It ironically means "work brings freedom" ??!!! Auschwitz 1 was the headquarters, which is also where u will see the sign. However, the famous camp was in fact Birkenau (A.k.a Auschwitz 2). It was so huge there is a railway running from north to south of the camp, thus the name "death railway". The living conditions in Auschwitz 1 was horrible and in Birkenau, it was beyond words and comprehension! it was so bad that the average lifespan of a prisoner was about 2-3 months only! people only had 2-3 mins per day, 2 times a day to so their "business" daily, in the place where toilets are simply holes on concrete (seen in the pic) and no one clears them regularly. Also, many people suffered from starvation diarrhea, which makes them shit on their beds as well. Thus, this camp was also called "death camps" beacuse people just came here and almost never make it out alive. They have 4 fumigation chambers which were destroyed when the Nazis left the place in 1945. the ruins can be still seen (in the pics). It was truly a depressing sight hearing the guide explain how the Nazi tortured and killed the Jews and other prisoners in ways that are totally inhumane! Hope that reading this is a msg to any neo-nazi out there... WAKE UP UR FUCKING IDEA! Nazism is not cool and certainly not genocide of any scale!