The luxury adventures of Jane

On my 3rdday in Berlin we hopped back on the coach to travel to Potsdam. Less than an hour later we arrived at Sanssouci… wow! We entered from the side, which makes it look like just a one-story yellow building. But as you walk around to the back you are able to marvel at its beauty. It is painted a lush golden shade that glows in the sunlight. It is rowed with windows that are elegantly decorated. I turned my head to my head to the left I noticed terraces cascading down to a huge and beautiful garden. The palace was built in the mid-18th century and was the summer palace to the King of Prussia, Fredrick the Great. It is done in a Rococo style and it is named after a French phrase meaning “without ... read more

All we hear about Auschwitz is the horrifying statistics. An estimated 1.1 million men, women and children, Jews, Poles and homosexuals, were slaughtered here. It is unique because as well as being the largest camp, it is the only Nazi facility that doubled as both a death/extermination camp and a concentration/labour camp. I will try to describe my experience at this haunting place but it is difficult to put it into words. I was not aware before visiting that there are two completely different parts of the Auschwitz Concentration camp. Auschwitz I and Auschwitz-Birkenau. These are about a kilometer apart from each other and present completely different styles of concentrations camps. Auschwitz I in filled will tall brick town houses, along straight lanes. Without any knowledge of where you were, you could be mistaken to ... read more

The first stop was to the capital of Poland. Walking around the city, the first thing that struck me was rather an odd observation. How flat it was. As I gazed down the streets, no a single hill or bump insight. I later discovered this was due to Nazis just about bombing the city into oblivion during WWII. 85%-90% of the buildings were destroyed over the course of the Second World War. To be honest, I found the streets rather ugly and plain. All the building I saw were gone is a very Communist, Soviet Russia, concrete style. I was getting a very unattractive impression of the city until… until I wondered into the Old Town. The Old Town is the area of Warsaw that was untouched by the destructions of war. The town is ... read more