Most visitors to the Zabłocie district of Kraków travel there exclusively to see Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory. Others head there to visit MOCAK, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków. However, from my experience it appears that only ourselves and a few primary school aged groups make the trip there to explore the Lipowa 3 …
While Łódź is somewhat unique in Poland in that it was not destroyed in World War Two, the same cannot be said for its ghetto area. Whereas the impact on the central infrastructure was minimal, the Łódź Ghetto was razed to the ground and the lasting impact on the Jewish population of the city was …
Walking around Warsaw it is still quite surprising that less than eighty years ago nearly the whole city was destroyed, and all that is there today has been restored, rebuilt or repurposed. Despite beautiful restorations, especially in the Old Town, what is evident is the culture and traditions that have been upheld in the city, …
While I may not have reached full ‘grown-up’ status just yet, if I have taken anything from the process in getting there so far, it is that as we mature the role of creative play in our life changes. Creative play as an adult is a means of self-expression, social commentary and development of the …
It was not the intention to visit the Ninth Fort Museum while we were in Kaunas, as we were unsure what public transport would be like given it was a public holiday weekend for the Summer Solstice. However, after a few days in the city the number of commemorative plaques and statues referencing and commemorating …
While I only learnt about the Bikernieki Memorial through Lonely Planet, I was already aware of Paneriai before we arrived in Lithuania. Though the two today bear similarities in some respect – they are both Holocaust memorials in areas of mass shootings in woods outside the respective capitals – Paneriai differed at the time due …