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Holocaust Study Visit: Day 4!
Welcome back to my blog covering Bann Maine West's Holocaust Study Visit to Krakow Poland. Kindly funded by Triangle Housing. In today's blog I will be covering our forth day in Poland, were we had an amazing tour of the Jewish Quarter with the same tour guide from Day 1, Joanna! 8.00AM: It was an 8 start for breakfast again and as always the food was lovely and little did we know we would need every bit of fuel we could get our hands on for what is to come! So at 9.30 sharp

Lenny Kirkpatrick
4 days ago5 min read


Holocaust Study Visit: Day 3!
Welcome back to my blog covering Bann Maine West's Holocaust Study Visit to Krakow Poland. Kindly funded by Triangle Housing. In today's blog I will be covering our third day in Poland, were we had some free time in the morning followed by our visit to Wieliczka Salt Mine. 8.30AM: It was a later start on the 3rd day however I was down sharp as a few of us had planned on heading into the city centre to do a bit more sightseeing. 9.30AM: After breakfast me and a few of the lads

Lenny Kirkpatrick
6 days ago4 min read


Holocaust Study Visit: Day 2!
Welcome back to my blog covering Bann Maine West's Holocaust Study Visit to Krakow Poland. Kindly funded by Triangle Housing. In today's blog I will be covering our second day in Poland, which was probably the most challenging, the tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau. 6.30AM: Again, it was an early start on the Saturday morning as we were heading off to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The hotel breakfast was lovely, it was a full continual buffet. A lot of ones within the the group had about 3 co

Lenny Kirkpatrick
Jan 158 min read


Holocaust Study Visit: Day 1!
Welcome back to my blog covering Bann Maine West's Holocaust Study Visit to Krakow Poland. Kindly funded by Triangle Housing. In today's blog I will be covering our first day in Poland, from an early start in Cullybackey to a late evening in Poland! 5.30AM: It was an early start on the first day, I got up at 4.30 to get ready and have a quick double check that I have got everything I will need. Then I headed to the Maine Spar in Cullybackey. To get the bus to Belfast Internat

Lenny Kirkpatrick
Jan 135 min read


Holocaust Study Visit: Pre-Visit Workshop!
Welcome back to my blog! Today I will be covering the Pre-Visit Workshop. Again, as always, I would like to thank Triangle Housing for the funding of this trip through there Housing for All, Good Relations budget and to Bann Maine West for facilitating the trip and for letting me document it through the blog. On Thursday night we all gathered in the Maine Business Centre for our pre-visit workshop presented by the wonderful Dr Katy Radford MBE. We started off with some get to

Lenny Kirkpatrick
Jan 83 min read


Holocaust Study Visit: Introduction to the blog!
Hello and welcome to my blog covering Bann Maine West Community Cluster's Holocaust Study Visit. I'm Lenny I was fortunate enough to get to volunteer with Bann Maine West in The Hub Gift Shop over the summer so if you popped down in you have probably seen me about! I am very excited to be going on this trip. Thank you to Triangle Housing for funding the trip and to Bann Maine West for facilitating it. Additionally, I am very grateful for the opportunity to document the visit

Lenny Kirkpatrick
Jan 62 min read
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