I enjoy taking people's recommendations on cities to visit, places to eat, bars to drink at, sights to see… but I can't say that any of those recommendations have turned out quite so well as when my colleague Voy told me I had to visit his hometown of Kraków. His recommendation contained a lot of 'It's awesome', 'My friends are awesome - and they'll look after you!' and 'the Vodka is awesome!'… 'Just do some research on what you want to see'! Instead, I ...

Warning: some photos are confronting! I've started this blog about 6 times now… mainly because I feel that I sound heartless when I write about it. Going to a place like Auschwitz I (and Auschwitz II-Birkenau), I personally found it incredibly hard to comprehend almost any number that we were told about. I've spoken to a number of people since visiting it, and have received mixed reactions. Some were crying the whole time, some felt nothing, and others on...

This was over two months ago now... but it was one of my favourite things to see in Krakow, that I couldn't leave it without a blog to go with the photos! The Wieliczka Salt Mines are about 35 minutes out of Krakow. I decided to take a tour out there, as it was rather cheap and meant I didn't have to organise anything. It turned out to be a good idea, because without an organised tour, you just crowd around the entrance with all of the other few hundred touris...

It wasn't even a question that I needed to think about… "Booked a week in Zeeland… Are you joining us, please?" Ah, YES! This is a place I've wanted to go in the Netherlands for years! The van Dam/van den Boomen family are my family away from home… gorgeous Rita (my mother's first cousin - and amazingly like her in many ways), her lovely husband Hendrik (also reminds me a lot of my father - especially their exasperation to many things their wives do! (...

(This one is long... but worth the interesting facts) On my last day in Bosnia, we drove the few hours from Mostar to Sarajevo, and then onto a town called Visoko. We were here to see the Bosnian Pyramids! Never heard of them? I hadn't either!!! As soon as I had though, I wanted to see for myself… the Egyptians were apparently bribing the Bosnian government to not bring publicity to them. Yep - they're the largest - and oldest pyramids in the world, and...