Today we continued on our journey to Vilnius. As we moved towards the far east of Poland the landscape changed once again. Now it was nearly continuous forest. This part of Poland, together with Southern Lithuania and western Belorussia are…
The Wolf’s Lair
Our interesting stop today was the Wolf’s Lair, Hitler’s bunker deep in, what was then, the East Prussian forests. The countryside on our journey today changed yet again. There were gently undulating hills and a mixture of dense forest and…
Mabel Takes the Plunge
Before we left beautiful Torun we had to, of course, check out LIDL to see if it was housed in some stunning brick gothic building. Unfortunately LIDL are, as my blog posts, predictable; it was located, as usual, in a…
Pancake Tuesday
Team Basil had a nice relaxing start to the day, today. The luxury of a whole day to explore just a small Polish town. Sarah eased herself into the day with a mere 3,000 step walk and I with a…