Hey everyone, This place is awesome! Mum and I arrived yesterday afternoon from Germany by train and i"ve done so much already. Yesterday afternoon we checked in to the hostel then hit the streets, we walked down the main shopping district, its probably the most variety i've had in a city since being here. We ended up in Dam square...not the nicest city square, but interesting...and full of pigeons (someone told me they gas them late at night to keep the p...

Greetings from Berlin! This is the last full day of my tour and i'm very sad...I wish it was longer! Anyway in my last postcard I mentioned that I visited Auschwitz, it really was one of the worst experinces i've had since travelling, the display and guided tour is very moving. The things that were imposed on the Jews and the things they had to endure were unbelieveable. It really is hard to believe what one human being is capable of doing to another. ...

Hey I'm in the Polish capital Warsaw. I visisted an awesome salt mine whilst in Krakow, and I descended 135m below the ground. You'd think there wouldn't be much to see in a salt mine, but on the contrary, they are a very religious people and have built underground churches and cathedrals and monuments, all out of salt. So that was fantastic. What wasn't so fantastic was my visit to Auschwitz, the nazi concentration camp for jews. I'll have to post mor...

Hey hey I'm in Krakow, Poland at the moment. We arrived last night...today we had an awesome city tour and got to go to Schindlear's factory and office, we saw the gehtto and Jewish quarter and the oldest synagog in Krakow. We also went to the castle and main cathedral...this city is very religious and has over 100 churhes, its funny to see nun's walking around the place. Pope John Paul II was from Krakow and we saw where he used to live. The old town i...

Greetings from Budapest! Well the most random thing on earth just happened to me. I was walking down the street with Jackie and Annelise and I hear someone call out my name, so I turn around and it's a friend I used to work with in Terry White Chemists who I haven't seen in two and a half years. CRAZY! Here I am in Hungary of all places and we happen to see each other, not in Newcastle, no but in Budapest. The world is small. Moving right along, when we ar...