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 weren't for Hitler and his policies, you were against him which made life very difficult. Germany has made it a policy that every school child from 14 years up has to be taken to a concentration camp and taught about what happened in a hope that it will never happen again. Here's hoping.

We returned to Munich and waited for Grandad and the girls in the city centre. After half an hour and them not showing up, we tracked them down at the hotel and we walked back there. We then collected the girls and walked back into the city for lunch and a wander around.

We went into the church of our lady, where there is a footprint in a tile where legend has it that when the church was being built, the devil stepped inside and thought there were no windows in it and it was a dark church. He was very happy. However he took another step and discovered them. He was furious and stamped his foot down in anger leaving his impression in the tile. Pasqual's foot fits perfectly (not sure if I should be concerned or not).

On the way back to the hotel, we looked in a variety of stores that stock German traditional dresses. I got to try several on (am hoping to get one before the end of the tour). It was so nice to potter around with no real rush to be anywhere. It was a nice relaxing afternoon.