48 hours in Görlitz (AND ZGORZELEC) - Tale Of Two Cities in 🇵🇱 POLAND & 🇩🇪 GERMANY
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Görlitz and Zgorzelec are two very different cities in both size, population, architecture and feeling. On visiting these two towns you will find there to be a great contrast between them. The German city of Görlitz has been beautifully restored, whilst the Polish town of Zgorzelec holds, in parts, a certain rustic charm. These towns enable visitors to transcend over bridges to their neighbouring country on foot, bike or motor vehicle. You can chow down Polish pierogi for lunch then hop over to Germany for fine vistas atop numerous historical towers. And let's not forget their attachment to Hollywood movies. Görlitz really is dubbed the German Hollywood as Görliwood. Think polished town houses, mouthwatering cakes and picture postcard squares you can idle sunny days on.
This video aims to give you a brief taster of the regions of Silesia and German Saxony. I will take you to see a monument marking CET before drawing your attention to a forgotten WW2 war memorial positioned in the heart of Zgorzelec.
I hope you enjoy watching it and in turn are encouraged to make a visit, whether you've been before or not.
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Great Job and much informations 👍
Thanks a lot 🤗
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱
Thank you Unser.
Great job Thanks ! my city Zgorzelec
My pleasure Te Ka.😁
Thanks, good Job. You´ve showed not only the tourist highlights, but also the flats and the food on the Polish side. So one has the entire view of the two cities.
Many thanks Dominik. Keep your eyes peeled for more vids coming out very soon.
I love your excited expression when it comes to food! 😂 Great job, can not wait for the next one!
Great job, brother. Learned a lot. Looking forward to your next video!
Danke.
Another good video. I love Gorlitz.
Thanks again Antony. Görlitz is a charming little city. Check out my other ones if you've time.
Actually it was also very easy before 2007. No passport , you just had to show your ID. Most of the times nobody checked anything, because there were to many pedestrians.
Thanks for the comment. Good know.
I love your work.
Nice remark - thanks. Please feel free to check out my more recent videos if you've time. =T
Gorlitz wasn't destroyed by war ,however it was destroyed by it's own East German government!!!!Greetings from Poland
Thanks for the fact Mark.
Great video! Your pronunciation of the two cities cracked me up though :D
The German city is pronounced 'Girlits and the Polish Zgo'zhelets
Thank you :-) please check out my more recent vids and keep sharing. Much obliged, adioqier.
I found the pronunciation strange since the presenter spoke Polish in the shop.
O moje miasto
Thank you very much. It was very interesting!
Thank you for your appreciation. It's my pleasure. Please check out my latest ones on Slovenia. Hungary to follow soon.
Bardzo Dobrze-Sehr Gutes Video !
Passage❤
hi, friend! excellent video! One question, what is the name and where is that restaurant where you enter and climb stairs? It looks like a tavern entrance like a half-old bar. It was after eating at the first restaurant by the river.
Dear Richardo, Thank you very much for your positive review. It was one of my first ever videos in fact. As for the restaurant it's a real gem. The name in English is 'Jacobs Inn' and is located very close to the footbridge connecting to German Görlitz. I wish you a pleasant time there & now is a great time to go. This is the Google maps link and am thrilled to note it's still open.
maps.app.goo.gl/N7y62BfcNkULd7Dg6
Nice video, Thomas. I recommend visiting other towns on the German-Polish border - Frankfurt-Slubice and Swinoujscie-Ahlbeck and also Cieszyn on the Czech-Polish border. Whenever I visit such towns, I find it exciting to be able to be in one town and two countries at the same time. I imagine that for people living in such places it is quite a challenge to live together with people of different nationality. I wish I knew what they think about that. Btw, congratulation on your Polish (when you pay for your drink in a shop just across the border).
Thank you for your suggestions of towns to reconnoitre for future. Still recall some Polish from my first year teaching in N.Poland as an EFL Teacher, back in '06 - FOND MEMORIES. Living among other nations (harmoniously) is a good opportunity to better ourselves; the best life lessons IMHO. I will research these towns you've suggested. Feel free to check out my other VIDS and keep your eyes peeled for more. Best wishes, =T
@@makingjourneys Wise words, Thomas, about harmonious living. I will certainly see your other videos. Cheers, mate.
Great video. Question, was Uber or Public trans/taxis available
Thanks Howie, Good question btw. In fact I didn't notice any.🤔
Hello Thomas! I thought it was just a restaurant. Is it also accommodation? I have been beautiful. I ate yesterday where you ate Piwnica, on the side of the river, which of the two is more expensive? thanks again. The second Jacobs Inn location... it seems to me that the second floor is small and has few tables, right? And is the service good like in Piwnica? or very serious. luck!
I think the term 'Inn' is used in a casual way these days, often reflecting on how they might have once operated, to accommodate. I think you'll find it's just a restaurant serving great local nosh. Good luck. =T
Great Video greetings from Germany.😅
Thank you Rappelz96.😁
There is still loads to explore there :)
Synagogue, Friedhof, clinic housed in amazing building, Bombardier wagon factory, workers district around the factory, DDR commieblock district with shopping street - not every communist town had such amenity. Swimming pool and "datchas" - small gardens emulating russian "datschas" . Also local brewery and cycling path along Niesse , going near small lakes.
And it is just a beginning :)
How was the situation here at the time of the Cold War and afterwards ? Why haven't you interviewed the inhabitants ??!
@farseverosapirico6248 Good point. I wished I had more variety with this video by interviewing; certainly a good point.
Another fantastic video,
THANK YOU RAJAN. My next few videos will be out very soon on Prague; then more once travel restrictions ease. Please share with your friends. Warm regards =T
@@makingjourneys just cancelled several trips to Prague, good luck
Wolfsland brought me here.
I'm a little biased. 😁
I guess we all fall victim to being biased at some point in our lives. I like both cities for very different reasons. Thanks for watching Larry.
Nice one
Thanks Sven😁
Interesting video. Trying to speak the local language as you did in Poland is always appreciated but try to improve on the pronunciation of the geographical places like Berndorfer See ( Be:ndorfer Se: not Bo:ndorfer ...). It sounds weird.
@@hannofranz7973 Thanks for the constructive feedback Hanno.
Great pictures but you made so many mistakes I lost count.
Please, is Gorlitz safe for foreigners???
People are saying there is xenophobia in Gorlitz. Is it true??
Not as far as I'm aware of. Görlitz is perfectly safe in every sense. I've never been at the brunt of or witnessed anything of this nature. Good luck and thanks for watching. Feel free to check out my other videos. =T
@@makingjourneys thanks for the counsel. I have been issued acceptance letter for MSc degree to commence in October this year and my study centers are Gorlitz and Zittau. Hence, my question.
@@jonathanotoide8969 Best of luck. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun. I lived in Liberec, Czechia for 5 years between 2015 and 2020 and there's a lot to digest and reconnoitre in this area covering Zittau Mts/Sudetenlands and east into Silesia.
@@makingjourneys thanks for encouraging me with your uncommon counsel.
Cheers!
Gorlitz
Pronounced zgoh-ZHEL-ets
it used to be one single city until 1945
Thanks for this fact Jean. I had a feeling it was and would make sense.
Go to wroclaw instead…
I'd like to visit Wroclaw.
There are things you don’t know about Zgorzelec and Goerlitz.Personally I am avoiding these places.
@@roberttwardowski9711
What things do you mean? Explain them, please.