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The Last Day - How do We Sum Up?

So we reach the end of our journey today but still have so much to learn and so many questions to answer. We pick up our journey in...

Day Four - from hell to hell to Lublin

Updated because of earlier grammatical errors Day four and we continue our road trip through Poland. Clearly our objective is to learn as...

Eve

So a big part of our journey this week involves survivors. We are incredibly lucky that 8 survivors are still able and willing to share...

The Main Event

And you won’t be surprised to hear that today was another epic day that will stay with me for a very long time. But before I get to the...

Auschwitz & Birkenau

Day 2 of this journey was overwhelming and upsetting beyond words or pictures. While the essence of this journey is to experience this...

Krakow - Day 1

So we started our time here in Poland in Krakow, in the south of the country and close to the epicentre of the story we are here to hear....

March of The Living - here we go

So I've boarded the plane with 90 others, another 131 of our group are on another flight from Luton (should be 135 but four got bumped)...

I’m not a Mountain Goat

Today was day four of our trek and you’d think they’d save the best for last. We were up bright and early and the slight twisted ankle...

The Dead Centre of the Trek

So today we passed the half way stage of our trek - at least in terms of distance. We started the day visiting an amazing organisation in...

Yom Hazikaron & The Malki Foundation

So tonight was Yom Hazikaron across Israel. It is the saddest day of the calendar remembering over 24,000 people who have died in war or...

Today was a bit poo!

So today was tough! This was not trekking like I had practised. I’d worn my walking boots in with regular sojourns to Hampstead and even...

It was always City Slickers!

So when I first heard about coming on a Trek, the first comparison that came to mind was City Slickers. Early 1990s, classic Billy...

Can someone hold my poles?

So today we started our trek. After the excitement of getting here (please see earlier blogs) we arrived at our first hotel at 8 and had....

The journey starts before the airport!

So I used to be a frequent traveller and navigated airports at speed. But the pandemic put a stop to all that and this is only my second...

Before I go

So after months of sitting at home and the occasional venture into the office (not far from St Paul’s - hence the photo) I’m off on a...

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