geoorginax: Germany and Poland

Hi everyone,

this will be a tough one for me to write today but here goes. In March I went on a school trip to Germany and Poland. It was one of the best, sad and funniest week ever. I had a great group of friends with me and we all had such a good time, besides being on a coach for over 60 hours overall! But we made it through the 20 hour journey to Germany watching films, being on a ferry, sleeping and playing card games! The 7 hour journey from Germany to Poland doing our makeup, watching films and playing card games. Then the 27 hour journey doing basically the same as we did on the way over!

Berlin is really nice and I would highly advise people to go there! We did some good shopping (MAC and NYX especially!) and some sightseeing of some really great places.

The Brandenburg Gate

The Reichstag

Jewish Memorial

Remains of the Berlin Wall

We then carried on our journey to Krakow, Poland. We stayed in a lovely hotel called the Wyspianski which was also a short walk from the town square. Krakow is a really beautiful town which wasn't extremely busy whilst we were there. The real reason we were in Poland was to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau. This was one of the biggest Nazi death camps in World War 2 and to visit there felt so important to me. Some people may find it really boring but once you get there you feel so many different emotions, seeing the conditions the people there lived in you feel quite bad for being there in so many layers and eating a hot meal every night, but once you've done the indoor tour and the tour of Birkenau,it really hits home what the Nazi's did to those poor people and you cant even imagine what they really felt like