This morning, I woke up in my last hotel bed, packed my bag for the last time, and headed off for my last journey of my trip. It really is all coming to an end, and a sense of misery is rather starting to sweep over me… However, I shall use this time to reflect…

I am starting to write this on Saturday evening with Gladiators on in the background – have I travelled back in time? I am certainly starting to feel like I really have come home. When I set off all those months ago (23 August 2023), I did not have a fixed return date. However, I…

The morning after the night before, i.e., Thurday, I may have been feeling little delicate, and therefore, we had a slow start to the day. We decided to walk into the museum area, stopping on route for an excellent hot dog, to visit the Van Gogh museum. I assume everyone is familiar with Vincent Van…

As I head into my last week, I may have fallen a little behind on the blog – I was too busy having a delightful time in Amsterdam with Susan which you shall be hearing more of in this/the next entry to ensure I am up to date before this is all over on Monday.…

Well, I made it eventually. When I wrote the last post it was all going rather swimmingly, however, our train stopped at the station before Rzepin (where I knew I had to get off and take the rail replacement bus across the border) and we were told we would be there for an hour. News…

Another straightforward arrival in Gdansk and then a short walk to our hotel. It is noticeably warmer here than it has been almost everywhere else during our travels in Poland – the heady heights of -1. An easy walk to our hotel (and perfectly acceptable though it was, the 2 star Ibis did feel like…

According to a 2017 survey, 41% of American adults and 66% of millennials did not know what Auschwitz was, while 22% said they did not know what the Holocaust was. These are very worrying statistics. I am sure that none of you would be in these groups, and therefore surely Auschwitz needs no introduction. As…

After our train journey, we arrived safely into Krakow and managed to locate our hotel (it being in sight of the exit of the station building!) to check in and drop our bags. After a little research, we found a restaurant with vegetarian options (I had a meat stew in a breadbowl which seemed to…

I am not quite sure what I was expecting, but Warsaw has surprised me – it is almost like it is a big, modern capital of a big city of 2 million people? The shock. For example, it is much bigger than the Baltic capitals and seems to have far more modern/ high-rise buildings. Anyway,…