So.... As I'm travelling with school it appears we travel with a proper airline! This came as a shock as one is used to traveling being a totally stingy Scotsman and jumping between squeeze jet and payfortoilet Air. So when offer a glass of wine for... Free I jumped at the chance! Sitting next to a share holder of KLM and just finished a rather splendid chat about KLM and our joint experiences... His everywhere it would appear and mine to Rwanda. Feel i should w...

Final day / morning in Poland. I find myself thinking over what we have been through over the last few days. It's has been horrific, the acts committed, the things we have seen. But I don't feel as emotionally drained as our visit to the battlefields last year. Why? Maybe it's just the nature of the delivery, the emotive element was absent? Maybe I have reached a point where I have seen so much human pain that I am becoming more accustomed or immune to it? ...

Auschwitz, I remember reading once in the Torah, that if the rocks could, they would cry out. I tremble at the thought of what these bricks would cry at the suffering they have witnessed within these barbed wire fences. As we enter Auschwitz through the historic gate immortalised by Spielberg, a chill runs down my spine, empty watch-towers penetrate me with their gaze. A gentle snow covers the ground, it's cold hard surface giving Auschwitz a haunting sereni...

Where to begin? Today, took a bit more of a serious turn on our trip to Poland. It began to hit home why we are really here. We started the day in the heart of the Jewish quarter with a visit to the oldest synagogue in Poland. This once beautiful building created to worship Yahweh, was now transformed into a Jewish museum. I couldn't quite shake the feeling that through all the glam, that some how humanity had lost its way, and that even though the synagogue...

Arrived in Poland to a chilling -2c. First experience was a new for a person from Edinburgh. A tram into the city, running on time, and costing very little! We arrived in the centre to be greeted by RC churches everywhere, a super sized Holy Corner no less. Our funky little RE teacher guides, one looking a little bit like a hobbit and the other Victor Meldrew, walked us into the central square. It instantly reminded me of Bruges. Huge cobbled square, hors...