Eastern Europe Tours Vacation Cruises

Berlin Warsaw Cracow Prague, and Budapest five cities five fascinating places torn apart by World War two, and then hidden behind the Iron Curtain of communism this Eastern Europe thing has been on our bucket list for a long time.

So far, it’s been just the thing for us you Warsaw is the capital of Poland she is sometimes called the Phoenix City. Because she was completely destroyed during World War two, and then rebuilt with the heroic efforts of the Polish citizens and I also like to share my experience. I’m also very proud of my country and I like to show them a little bit of this at the age of six the small boy started to play piano at the age of seven he started to compose his first music nothing special at the age of nine he was already better than his teachers.

So he started to compose his first real polonaises mazurkas Nocturne sonatas shortly after the German invasion of Poland in September of more than, views in Warsaw were confined to little more than one square mile of the city this became known as the Warsaw Ghetto in November of the ghetto was sealed off by brick walls barbed wire, and armed guards anyone caught leaving was shot on sight the uprising started on the first of August, and it lasted for days. So more than two months, civilians who died, and forty eight thousand soldiers walking the grounds of the State Museum of auschwitz-birkenau the largest World War two camp can be a deeply moving experience many people were systematically murdered here by the Nazis mostly Jews but also Roma Jehovah Witnesses homosexuals, and the disabled unlike Warsaw Prague was spared the devastation of strategic bombing during World War two today Prague is known as the city of a hundred spires, and considered one of Eastern Europe’s best-preserved old world cities the old town astronomical clock is a medieval wonder at the top of every hour mechanical figures come to life when they consider this to be a point of light in the dark ages a planetarium modeling the medieval universe the countries of this remarkable journey Germany Poland the Czech Republic, and Hungary a past present, and future revealed you.