Day 69 28 June 2013 Warsaw In years gone by, if anyone would have asked me which country or people suffered the most during world war two my answer would have been Poland. I knew this from the many many documentaries I saw about the second world war during the time when I grew up. During the war, Warsaw saw a large section blocked off and turned into a Jewish ghetto. This was the largest ghetto in Nazi occupied Europe with around 400.000 Jews being put in a ar...

Day 68 27 June 2013 Warsaw Visiting a city mostly results in looking at nice places and looking at architecture. Another thing what comes up again and again is that you are confronted with a city's past at that is usually the various war times. So today after visiting the old town I went to a war time prison used by the Gestapo. As I would like to keep the blog in a positive frame I will not report on what I learned or saw and won’t upload any pictures o...

Day 67 June 26 2013 Warsaw Arriving in Warsaw – Poland this morning made me think about a few things I have experience between 2005 and August last year. When it comes to the average Western European analysis of Poland, not many people have a positive point of view; on the contrary most people I have spoken to are rather negative about their view of Poland. So let's examine this. In the first instance a number of people in the Netherlands I have spo...