The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again. Auschwitz….what does one say about such a place? I navigated my group of six through the streets of Krakow this morning, thankfully able to read the map and not getting lost in the limited time we had to get the Cracow city tour bus. We got on the bus and then were driven out to the largest concentration camp from WWII, a place in which 1.3 million people had been exterminated. We arri...

We were up with the sun today to get our train to Krakow. We walked to the tram station and then got on one stop to the train station, where Sara and I then had to figure out which platform we had to get onto. The woman at the window was most rude and unhelpful, yelling at us in Polish, which we obviously can't understand. We managed to get her to write down the platform number. We got on the train and got settled in carriage ten, right at the back. It too...

Sara and I both got up late this morning as there was no where to go, no included excursions to organize and mostly everything was up to date….plus they serve breakfast until 11am at hotel Hetman. We had a lazy breakfast and met one of our new passengers, we didn't actually leave the breakfast room until about 12pm, when the sun came out and I decided to go for a walk. As per my usual habit I went to retrace the orientation tour. I walked out of the hotel,...

As usual this morning we went on our orientation tour, although there were far less people as many of the group had left the tour here in Warsaw. We walked over the river past the amazing church of the Archangel Micheal & Saint Florian and we could see the old castle, which trust my luck was covered in scaffolding. We had a walk through the old town and through the old Jewish Ghetto, there was a sign showing the devastation of the area during WWII, which ...

This morning was quite a sobering affair as our first stop was the former head quarters of the KGB, which is now the Museum of Genocide. We had an included guided tour, most of which consisted of a tour of the in tact prison below ground level and viewing the appalling conditioners in which prisoners of the KGB and then the Gestapo had lived in. I stood in one of the cells, which was no bigger than six by six meters, which had no beds and was used to house up...