Auschwitz is notorious as a concentration camp for Jews during World War II but it […]
Category: Countries
Poznań, birthplace of Poland
Of all the countries within modern Europe, Poland has surely had the most chequered history. […]
Toruń
Toruń was granted a foundation charter in 1233 by the nearby Teutonic Knights at Malbork, […]
Malbork, home of Teutonic Knights
Marienburg, the ‘Castle of Mary’ was built by Germany’s Teutonic Knights in the 1200s and […]
Gdańsk
Our trip this year is largely about travelling to Gdańsk. A Baltic city steeped in […]
A week on the Polish Baltic coast
The sixty mile drive north to the Polish Baltic Coast took nearly four hours, being […]
Crossing the border into Poland
We’d driven across the south of Poland five years previously having crossed into Zakopane from […]
A week on the German Baltic coast
The German Baltic coastline is beautiful. White sandy beaches stretch in long and wide bays […]
Lovely Lübeck
In 1241 Hamburg and the smaller town of Lübeck, east of the city and heading […]
Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany’s magnificent city of the North. Its very name conjures images of industrial-scale docklands, […]