When I visited in 2017, it was April. I stayed in a self-catering apartment just off the main market square, Rynek Główny, with easy access to the city’s shops, restaurants and tourist attractions. Continue reading
We left the apartment after breakfast this morning to go to the coach park, our pickup point for today’s day trip. The trip today would take is in to the mountains. We travelled by minibus with 2 Canadians, and American… Continue reading
The name of the camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is made up of the German names for the nearest villages: Oświęcim (Auschwitz) and Brzezinka (Birkenau). Continue reading
My second foreign trip of the year is under way. After a 3.15 departure from Cirencester and 7.00 flight from Bristol, my sister and I arrived in Kraków at lunchtime. The second largest city in Poland, Kraków was the capital… Continue reading