GERMANY - DAY 10 Pasqual and I left the girls with Grandad and we headed with a small group to Dachau Memorial Site, the first concentration camp that opened immediately after Hitler's rise to power in 1933. We arrived just as the camp was opening so we were able to walk around this erie place. It was very chilling seeing the conditions that people where exposed to. I never realised there were so many different minorities persecuted by Hitler. Basically if you...

GERMANY - DAY 9 We left Nuremberg and traveled into Rothenburg. We wandered around looking at the medieval buildings. We looked through Kathe Wohlfahrt. It was a wonderful world of exquisite decoration and gift ideas for the Christmas holidays including nutcrackers and incense smokers, pyramids and music boxes as well as beautiful ornaments made of wood, glass and pewter. I could have gone crazy and bought so much stuff for Christmas but I restrained myself an...