Before I tell you about how I got our Krakow-Budapest driver lost and how everyone in the van seemed to hate me, you should know that Ron totally lied about how much underwear he brought and so he’s no better a person than I am. And in my defense, I didn’t want to stop for […]
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Wrapping up Krakow
So now we are finishing up with our four days in Krakow and I’ve seen a lot of things I don’t particularly want to write about but I am glad I have come all this way so that whatever essence of human spirit or human hope that remains at Auschwitz and Birkenau knows that I […]
My trail of criminal acts stretches across Europe
I can’t believe we’ve only had Day One of what will be 7 days of World War II sites. It’s hard to see these places and not feel incredible anger and a bit of vulnerability for being Jewish. Krakow is full of preserved memories and homages to the plight of the Jewish people killed here […]
Food highlights of England
Today we toured the Bodleian Library. We opted for the extensive 90 minute tour and so we were assigned Sue as a guide. I knew it wasn’t going to go well when she revealed she has a PhD in “informatics”, which she got after stints in teaching and nursing. Ron boldly asked what informatics is […]
