There’s something quite voyeuristic about visiting a former concentration camp; feels a bit weird taking photos of a place that is reknown for cruelty, humiliation and deaths of the most sufferable kind. JB and I enrolled in a tour-guided session of Saschenhausen Contentration Camp about 40 minutes out of Berlin and whilst it was a completely depressing place to visit we both have a much greater understanding of their existance. It poured rain for a majority of the visit which was apt considering the bleak nature of the camp.
We spent our last days in Berlin doing more touristy stuff; guided walking tour; The Reichstag; Tiergarten and a walk down the Spree. All lovely. We worked out the public holiday was the anniversay Reunification Day – quite important in Berlin history so we joined in some of the associated festivities. The weather drizzled a little, but all great.
Tonight we have our first night in Prague. We’re stuffed, and have been looking forward to our week(hopefully a rest day or two) here. Our accommodation is an apartment with a kitchen so we’re looking forward to cooking some food rather than eating out. We’re a little over our allocated budget as well so we’re hoping that shopping in Czech Koruny (Krowns) will allow us to make up a little. 1 Aussie Dollar will buy us about 16 Koruny rather than half a Euro.
Internet acces in Prague is cheap but the computer I’m sitting at right now doesn’t have an SD card faciltiy so I’ll have to post photo’s next time. We’ll try a different cafe.
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