This morning we had one of our earliest starts of our holiday as the train to Dresden was leaving at 7:35am, fortunately we were only a 15 min walk from the station. Todays train would take about 7hrs and required one change in Wroclaw and then onto Dresden. We had our own 6 berth cabin on the first leg of the trip which can often happen on the regional runs. Five hours later, traveling through town after town and through forests lined with big burch trees with ...

Today we decided to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, the world's biggest concentration camp established by the Nazis during World War II in Poland. We decided that a tour would allow us to make the most of our visit and were taken in a minibus to the site, the drive took about 1 1/2 hours. On the way there we were shown a 50min documentary about the liberation of the camp, what they found and the stories that they were told. Once we got to the museum at Auschwitz I we...

We took this morning at our leisure and simply wandered around town, stopping for coffee and toasted chicken/avocado/cheese sandwiches as we fuelled up for a walking tour this afternoon. For this we rugged up, the sun is gone by 4:30pm this time of year and the temperature quickly leaves with it. We joined the free walking tour of Jewish Krakow at 3 o'clock. The walking tours are well organised and work on a no obligation "tip" basis. What you get are ...

Today we had another long train ride ahead of us, it would be 8hrs by the time we arrived with one change along the way. Prague-Katowice-Krakow. Due to spending so much time exploring England, France & Italy, it's meant the final leg of our journey is really a matter of doing 1 city per country as we make our way up through Eastern Europe before cutting back west towards Amsterdam. Today's first train however was one of the nice modern ones, there are still a...

Having done a quick fire walk around the main sites of Prague yesterday, we were able to take today at a more leisurely pace, starting with a small sleep in till 9am. A basic breakfast of toast, cereal & coffee is provided at this hostel between the much more friendly hours of 9-12. Due to the owner previously running a pub, he knows that the standard 7-9:30am breakfast is pretty pointless in a hostel. After a feed and a shower we got moving again, this time...