Archive for August, 2005

Well, we know how to time our visit - on the same day as the worst flood in Lucerne in 30 years! It seems to have been raining in Switzerland for several days. It was certainly pouring with rain when we arrived in Zurich on Sunday afternnoon. It continued to pour for [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates. It is really hard to find time to sit in an internet cafe when there is so much to see and do! This is our last day in Germany. In the past week we have visited Berlin, Hamburg, Eisenach and I am writing this in Munich. [...]

On Wednesday afternoon we headed for Poznan for two nights. My reason for choosing to stay here (in spite of all the Poles telling us not to go there ‘because there is nothing there’) is because it is the base for the organisation Discovering Roots (http://www.discovering-roots.pl/welcome.htm). I had booked a guide from [...]

Will update as soon as possible!

One can’t really come to this part of the world without visiting Auschwitz Birkenau, the location of one of the most infamous of the Nazi death camps. On Sunday we caught the 9am bus - its a journey of about 60km, an hour and a half. Entry to the museum is free, but [...]

We arrived in Krakow at about 7.30 pm, and found our guesthouse not far from the train station, and right on the edge of the Old Town, which was nice. After a quick wander through the square and a kebab we were ready for a good night’s sleep. This would have been possible [...]

We arrived in Prague a little tired and grumpy - two and a half days travelling takes its toll! We didn’t like having to skim through so much country without a break, but it was the price we had to pay for having taken the side trip to Croatia. We hadn’t booked accommodation [...]

Jan and I got up at a nicely civilised hour and made our way down to the bus station. We already had our bus tickets and arrived in plenty of time to catch the bus. The bus, however, had completely different ideas! It arrived just 5 minutes before it was due to [...]