On 12 July we had a drive into Krakow and found that a popular way to visit this city is on golf carts. So we hopped on one and had a drive through the old town and Jewish Quarter. After that we had a walk around the main market square, it's Europe's largest medieval town square, measuring 200m x 200m with a 15th century town-hall. In the centre of the square is the old cloth hall which is now filled with shops selling a lot of locally made souvenirs - many di...

Auschwitz Concentration Camp wasn't just one camp, it consisted of Auschwitz I (the base camp), Auschwitz II-Birkenau (the extermination camp) and Auschwitz III-Monowitz (the labour camp) as well as 45 satellite camps. The Germans took over this part of Poland in 1939 and destroyed villages to make way for these camps. Our tour took us first of all through Auschwitz I and then through Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Auschwitz I - The first thing I noticed about the cam...

We left Druskininkai headed for Warsaw. We arrived in Warsaw about 3 in the afternoon. We decided to head straight into Warsaw and have a look around and leave the next morning for Krakow. So we drove into Warsaw and found the old town relatively easily. We found a car park on the street and a man came up to Loche to tell him because it was the weekend we didn't have to pay for parking, but we could pay him to look after the car for us. Loche said no and we ...

On Friday 14th of June, we left Berlin and travelled north into Poland to a little town called Niechorze on the Baltic Coast. This is was such a pretty area and obviously a Polish (and less busy) version of Noosa. There is sand on the beach (not rocks like on the Mediterranean) and bars and pretty houses that reminded us of Austrian architecture. We were nicely surprised by the caravan park, the toilets and showers were all very new and clean, the pitches were...