Content Tagged “travel”

• Back from Poland

  I’ve just returned from my trip to Poland and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial. It was a very interesting trip, as part of which I not only got a tour of the memorial and museum, but I also had the opportunity to see parts of the memorial not open to regular visitors. We were even shown around a newly-preserved barracks building in Birkenau that had so far only been accessed by museum staff. We also got to see the archives and preservation labs and attended a number of interesting lectures, including by the director of the museum and a staff historian.

  It was a very taxing trip. I travelled over 1600 kilometres to get there and back and every day at the memorial, I spent 8 hours straight just absorbing information, with a lot of walking in between. I took over 600 photos on the memorial grounds.

  In the coming days and weeks, I will be writing about my experience and you can also expect me to publish some of those pictures here, of course.

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• Auschwitz Seminar

  I’ve just gotten the news that I have been accepted to attend a seminar for journalists in Auschwitz at the end of the month. Despite my lifelong interest in World War II history, I have never been there. I have never been in Poland, in fact, even though part of my family is from the now-Polish part of Pomerania. I just never had the opportunity. So I’m doubly happy I get to attend this. This is quite exciting for me!

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• Back from Holiday (Once Again)

  Yeah, I realise I’ve been on holiday a lot recently … I’ve just returned from a week-long motorbike tour through Normandy. This was the yearly tour I do with my dad and it was originally planned for much earlier in the year, but had to be pushed back due to some health related circumstances.

  It was a very nice bike trip through some seriously beautiful country and despite being exhausting — one factor here was the weather, which was already starting to get quite cool — it did a lot to clear my mind of work-related things. But now I am once again ready to go back to work. And there’s no further holiday planned for the forseeable future, so you can look forward to regular content on the blog again.

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• Back from Holiday

  

  I’ve just arrived home from a beautiful two-week holiday in sunny Tuscany, Italy. My phone was off for almost the complete duration of this holiday and I did not take a computer with me. I read a lot, took some handwritten notes and otherwise just relaxed by sitting around in the sun, cooking food over a wood fire and swimming in the pool.

  I am now thoroughly relaxed and ready to go back to work, so expect more writing (and other things) from me soon.

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