Lenny Kirkpatrick

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 we were ready to...

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 found an...

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 courses and fry's....