Archive for 2010
Movember – The Final Product
So here it is in all it’s glory! The final day of Movember and my mustache looking amazing. After a month of growing it, this is how it ended up, and not too badly if I do say so myself. I just want to say a big thank you to everyone who donated to me, [...]
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp/Museum
Our last full day in Poland we planned on going to the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp/Museum that was in operation by the Nazis before and during World War II. We were heading off to the bus station when we were approached by someone offering to take us there, wait there with us, take us [...]
The Wieliczka Salt Mine
We all met at the train station nice and early, but luckily for me and Elese we weren’t staying to far from the station so we didn’t have to get up quite as early. Our train ride was pretty much the same as when we came to Warsaw, except it was a different train layout [...]
Touring Poland
We’d booked a train to Warsaw for the afternoon, so we spent the morning on a tour of Krakow with a local guide who liked to make up stories and legends about some of the building and places which seemed a bit strange to us as we never knew if we should believe him or [...]
An Unexpected Adventure
We had never really planned on going to Poland at all, but the option was there for a while. Kate had planned on going there with Lucas and John, and had asked me a number of times if I had wanted to come too, but I didn’t really thing I had the money to do. [...]