Poland

Architecture, history, and plenty of rain: 24 hours in Krakow, Poland

The Imagination Trail May 19, 2019 6 Comments

Regular readers may be wondering what happened to New Zealand; after taking you through my two years in Australia I left you at Brisbane airport, on the way to Auckland, and now we’re suddenly in Poland! I am working on…
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Europe, Poland

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Why visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau isn’t just something to tick off a list

The Imagination Trail May 16, 2019 4 Comments

Auschwitz-Birkenau Poland not tourist attraction solo female travel

I’ve always tried to visit historical sites of trauma when I find myself in a region where something terrible happened. Not because I have some weird fascination with death and destruction, as some people might think, but because I believe…
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Europe, Poland

auschwitz, auschwitz-birkenau, concentration camps, Europe, history, poland, solo travel, The Imagination Trail

This is me: my name's Rachel and I'm a blogger, writer, dreamer, feminist and volcano-chaser. In 2016 I left a successful career as an academic librarian in the UK and gave up my home and most of my possessions to go travelling throughout Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In 2018 I returned to the UK, went back into librarianship, and now travel within Europe and further afield as much as possible in my free time. I hope to show that solo female travel is just as easy, fun and safe (if not more so!) as travelling with others.

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