Country roads are where the best adventures happen.

I remember visiting Kudowa Zroj in 1980 on my first return visit to Poland after being an exchange student there in 1976. We left Opole on a hot sunny day to visit friends in the Mountains. Little did I know it would be an overnight visit and the rain would turn to cold rain. We stayed in a cold water flat. We visited the skull chapel, drove through the Table mountains to the city with the beautiful basilica and mechanized Nativity scene museum, We walked around the spa area of Kudowa Zroj. Cherished memories, but overwhelmed at the time of the visit. One of highlights was when my friend asked if there was a place to wash our fresh strawberries at the garage we had a tire repaired at, she was sent to the wash room. She came quickly out with out the strawberries, with a very red face. As she started to wash the berries, she realized there was a man taking a bath in the tub. We set up our folding table with the table cloth and began our picnic. We were next to the collection of cars in need of repair. As we began to eat our picnic lunch, a man approached my friend with her basket of freshly washed strawberries!

Fajny kanał jesteście zajebistą parą życzę wszystkiego dobrego .

Hello from hot Ohio. Might never make it to Poland, so in the meantime, truly enjoying your videos, history lessons and commentary. I wondered if Mark would have enjoyed "bone" broth for lunch - ha ha. Thank you for the English translations. I pause the video to try and pronounce the words; some are really hard. Haven't spoken Polish in over 20 years and grew up with parents who spoke Polish but wanted us children to speak English because they thought it would be best to have no accent when looking for work or going for a higher education. Looking forward to the next video.

I’ve leaned so much from this episode . When I come to visit, it will take me several months to explore all the places that you have taken me to. These videos are so enjoyable!👍 Thank you Adjia & Mark. 😊

Poland is so beautiful. I enjoy these Kitchen's Closed episodes. 😊

Love watching your videos. Your personalities are so pleasant and you compliment each other well. It’s fun taking a tour through Poland through Mark’s eyes with interpretations by Anna💕💕

Traveling with a "native born" person is ALWAYS ideal! You're so lucky Mark! You've got an "in house", on call 24/7 guide to help you TRULY appreciate Poland. Congratulations also on adapting to living in HER native country. Nicely done sir!

One of my favorite field trips so far

Wow beautiful buildings, loved the history sad but true! We must never forget and I am so Grateful for my Grandfather and my Dad and Uncles who fought in World War 1 and 2…… so we can all come together as one. Love watching you both on your trips! Thanks again! 🙏

SO beautiful!! If I went to Poland I wouldn't leave.

Just beautiful and funny!! You'd love western new York!! Stop for some eggs, lol!!

What a beautiful place and the architecture on the sanitorium is anazibg

My partner and I have finally made it to Poland, landing in Gdansk early this week and spending time now wandering the city. We will be traveling through this beautiful country using your videos as our guide. This video is special, thank you for sharing.

@constantcomment1954

2 жыл бұрын

Do not skip Zakopane, the most beautiful place I have ever seen! You are so lucky. I was there in 1978 and wish I wrote a list of the places I went because now it is all a blur. :)

@hollyw.

2 жыл бұрын

Have a great time!!!

Was soooo happy to see a new video up! I’m impressed with Mark being able to read some Polish signs. 👍🏼

Was excited to watch this video and boy, I was not disappointed! One of your best. Thank you so much for showing the lesser known sides of Polska ♥️🇵🇱

Come to Poland , great things ...

I spent a month at a summer camp for Polish American/ Polish kids in nearby Duszniki Zdroj in 1985. What a beautiful part of the country and great memories. We visited the skull chapel. It was definitely a strange experience, but I don't think I was creeped out about it like Mark appears to be (and I was 12 at the time lol).

This video was so timely. I received a postcard today from relatives in Poland visiting Kudowa Zdrój. I knew nothing about the area until this video. Thank you for bringing my postcard to life!

Ossuaires are more common in the South Greece and Italy. First, the bodies are buried in a shallow grave then when the bones are clean they are arranged in the ossuaires. This has a lot to do with space for human remains in smaller and more narrow land sites but also the Church’s belief in the Resurrection and the Second Coming of our Lord. The ossuary is a place of deep reverence and holiness. For a Christian, it is not a sad place but a place of Hope. The mass graves of the 20th Century are sad because of the history and the impious action of the executioners. There we ought to pray and often do pray with great reverence and piety and perhaps reparation of the brutality and evil intent of those who constructed those graves.

You guys are the greatest! Thank you for sharing your journeys. ❤

You 2 are so cute! Thank you so much doe showing us your Country, makes me want to go even more than b/4. I also want to visit Russia and Hungry. All where my grandparents came from.

That storm was a floater. Yikes. Head-on fish bothers me not in the least. I've eaten in a restaurant while vacationing where the trout were live in their artificial "river". You picked out which one you wanted them to serve to you. Talk about fresh. It was lovely living vicariously through you guys, once again. RIP, bone people.

bardzo was lubie

W pobliżu są " Błędne Skały" a niedaleko po czeskiej stronie są "Teplickie Skały".

We have a town in Canada called Wilno that reminds me of this place. It’s the first polish settlement in Canada I believe.

@maryskibinski6728

2 жыл бұрын

The view from the Wilno church is breathtaking.

I missed you two this week! I was so excited to see your video posted this afternoon…and then there was the chapel. 😬. Let’s just say I’m excited for your next video! And Anna prepares for eventualities, Mark. That’s why you had chilled wine! 😂😂

Mark, the bones thing is also common in Italy (churches again)....and in some Asian societies they bury the dead and wait a year and then dig up and display Grandma....remember that in the states we embalm/preserve, so going to "bones" doesn't happen in the same way.... this was a great episode....love the end food conversation, one can never over pack, specially snacks....

Hello from Chicago, I love you guys. I was born in Choszczno. WOW

Love the videos, be safe.

Beautiful mountain village, Reminds me of Colorado, although hippies are invading these areas. I visited an old Sanitorium in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Teddy Roosevelt used to go to especially after hunting trips. They have incredible Hot Springs. About the Bone Memorial. You never know about development and bones being pulled up. I am happy they do not allow pictures it is respectful. There is one in Cologne Germany, they are believed to be 10,000 Virgins Slaughtered. They found them when rebuilding the church. They placed them in a room. It is Sacred Ground. Blessed. I loved the music. Is it from Poland?

Moje miasto😊Trafiliście w najlepsze miejsce gdzie można zjeść ryby🙃 Warto zobaczyć park zdrojowy, pijalnię,Szczeliniec Wielki,Błędne Skały,choć przez cały sezon jest tyle ludzi,że cały czas są kolejki.Gdyby jeździły pociągi(obecnie jeżdżą w zastępstwie autobusy),to warto byłoby przejechać się pociągiem,ponieważ w drodze do Lewina Klodzkiego,jedzie się po wiadukcie,ale cała trasa(ta do Kłodzka) jest piękna.

Greetings from Beaver Dam, WI. I don't know about Poland, but in Germany, the dead often give up their graves. Otherwise they would need to build cemetery skyscrapers (see Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica in Santos, Brazil). So Ossuaries are a way to still honor the dead without taking up so much space. (not sure the same would apply to mass graves. :O )

What a great video, I agree with Mark the church was a bit freaky. The scenery is beautiful!

Jesteście zajefajni!!! Mark to prawdziwy debeściak😎 Pozdro z drugiej strony Bałtyku!!

Love this i was there and it is so moving. Beautiful area and wonderful places to visit

As always, an interesting video, I like to watch you, you show our beautiful Poland and history, you are happy and with a sense of humor. Greetings from Canada - Szczecinianka 👍😉

love yoy guys

I find your videos so interesting. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this video. My Polish grandparents died before I was born so they didn’t teach us anything about Poland. I missed so much history and you guys are do us a great service by posting your videos. I’m not offended by history!! Bring it on!

@CthuIhuu

2 жыл бұрын

Come over and check for yourself! 😉

I look forward to more cooking videos.

Sudety - uwielbiam 💚

Wow, So much evil and devastation that happened…need to know the history and stories need to be told. 😢

Great trip guys, thanks!

There are a couple of places in southern Italy where people are interred in the catacombs of churches from as recently as the 1920s I believe. It seems to be a part of the culture of these regions where the living look after the remains of those who have passed on and recall them as an integral part of the history of those towns, much like you would say "Old Joe was a carpenter, baker, doctor (whatever their occupation ) and he did x, y, z. Now he just enjoys his life". It's creepy to us because that level of keeping the dead in our lives isn't part of our lives, and also it reminds us of our own mortality.

Love you guys stay safe

Nice video. Anxious to see a few cooking lessons in the future, that include sour cream & fresh dill!

Nice scenic views

Hello, I really like your channel.You have been doing good job.Greetengs from UK.

I was thinking grave robbers dig the Graves up and the preast was trying to give them a dignified end. But you might be right🤭.Thank you for the adventure. No travel chips ?🤔🤗😂

You guys are a trip! Enjoy your adventure.

Mark, your polish is getting good!

Guys. Obligatory in this area: Twierdza Kłodzko - Kłodzko fortress, Duszniki Zdrój - Muzeum papieru ( Paper Museum ), Bystrzyca Kłodzka

Jak będziecie w opolskiem polecam zwiedzic Nyse (moje miasto rodzinne) zabytków mnóstwo ,od katedry po forty pruskie i zamek w Mosznej oczywiscie tez. Odcinek jak zwykle super

Near the skull chapple there is another one in Czech Republic, the Sedlec Ossuary

The main reason for collecting bones for the chapel in Kudowa Zdrój was the fact that wild animals were digging up bones and spreading them around the area. That is why the Czech parish priest Václav Tomášek decided to transfer the bones to the chapel. This is a real fact.

@markhurning8051

2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense. Thanks for watching!

@suzannewinz1099

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the information.

26:10 lol !

😊💝

Can I request thatwhen you do your trips around Poland can you show the scenery as you drive. I know motorways are pretty much the same wherever you are, but some of the back roads in Poland are just so pretty, it's a shame not to show them.

@markhurning8051

2 жыл бұрын

You got it!

In the mountains of northern Portugal on roads just like the ones you were "navigating" the drivers were always REQUIRED to HONK their horns going into a "blind" curve to alert another motorist, horse or donkey cart, etc. that YOU were on the way through it. This system worked amazingly well while people drove with their windows OPEN. Not so good when they were closed and the inevitable, horrible crashes would be the result.

I'm sure the chapel was designed to celebrate the communion of saints. Early Christians used to worship in the catacombs in Rome as a way of joining in worship with those who had gone before them.

Most suburban and urbanites too seem to think that the "meat, fowl and fish they see at the supermarket are BORN in those cellophane covered, plastic foam trays. SAD but TRUE!!! We have gone from a an agrarian society to one which has almost completely divorced itself from "farm life" completely!!!

Back in those years (18th&19th Centuries) a tooth infection, especially in the upper jaw could EASILY kill the afflicted person. Thus the decision to "pull" the bad tooth with or without any anesthesia (Usually WODKA).

Oczywiście wiem, gdzie będzie wasz następny przystanek - Kłodzko. "Bezczelnie" podążacie moimi szlakami. Nota bebe - skoro polubiliście Dolny Śląsk, to polecam wam książki i jutuberskie zachęty Pani Joanny Lamparskiej. Np. skąd się wziął ten Frankenstein? Czy Kolorowe Jeziorka w Rudawach Janowickich widzieliście? Pozdrawiam!

Yeah mark. Im ur favorite d!ck head hahaha. Lol jk. I got hurt but ill be getting more shirts soon when i get back to work. I fn love you guys. Keep up the good work. Wheres the bikes? Especially thor. I wish you both the best. One day we will do some shots. I promise.

hi excellent video. I want to visit this chapelle. can you guys tell me if there are buses or train connection from Praga to this town? I live in Germany by the way

Fun fact! Just like YOU folks the future POOE JOHN PAUL II did the same thing in the Winter and he accidentally skied across the border into the then still unified CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

Any of these bones from the concentration camps? And YES this place should be shown. What kind of fish did Anja have?

@helenabrus191

2 жыл бұрын

I think she said river trout.

@andydzieciaszek586

2 жыл бұрын

No, they were from previous wars in the 1600's-1700s.

W Polsce mamy tak kaleczne jeszcze drogi masakra

He was about to be arrested by a young border guard when a superior officer arrived and scolded his junior who just couldn't believe that a CARDINAL of the Roman Catholic Church was so athletic! He didn't know that KAROL WOTYLA was in fact FROM Krakow and was an avid sportsman and mountaineer and in superb physical shape!

Poland and Eastern Europe would remain "captive" until the 1990's when the USSR finally crumbled under it's own weight and was "...Tossed onto the ash heap of history...". As President Ronald Reagan once said.

The SKULL chapel isn't unique! There's one in Sicily too!

Polish history except for WWI and WWII is almost NEVER taught in USA schools public or private. Only part of one paragraph I saw in my CATHOLIC SCHOOL history textbook was devoted to the foreigners who came to help the 13 American colonies achieve their efforts to achieve TOTAL independence from then greatest SUPERPOWER the world had EVER seen. The vast realms which the British monsrchs ruled over DWARFED the standard all others are STILL judged by, ie. IMPERIAL ROME.