Team Latitude and Roxanne the Land Rover

May 20, 2008
by Latitude

We spent most of yesterday at Auschwitz - it’s hard to say it was enjoyable; it was rather gruelling in fact, but certainly well worth the visit. It’s a very eerie feeling walking under the infamous ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ sign, and even the occasional coach-load of school kids (only over 15s allowed though - the first censored museum I’ve been to) can’t detract from the haunting knowledge of what happened there. The Birkenau camp, the epicentre for the Holocaust, is a vast place and at every turn the sheer scale of things beggars belief.

From here we get a brief reprise on the sites of mass-killing (next up Stalingrad) with the small matter of Ukraine to tackle - check your atlas, I guarantee it’s bigger than you think! It also provides us with our first border crossing, so fingers crossed for that!