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If you are going to Auschwitz I would seriously consider going to Krakow. Not only is it an beautiful city (rivals the capital in my opinion) but there is the recently opened Schindler's Museum in his factory which is supposed to be an excellent modern museum but was sadly closed when we visited.
We stayed with 20 other motorhomes at the carpark for Auschwitz (£5/24hrs) - the one on the opposite side to the site is cheaper.
We have now changed our planned trip / direction of travel.
Diver to calls
Dusseldorf Motorhome Show
Mane Dam ( WWW2 dambusters)
Colditz Castle
Auschwitz camp
Zagan ( Site of the real Great Escape WW2)
Peenmunde ( WW2 V2 site)
Rugen Island ( Site of Hitlers great hotel about 2 kms long I think)
Hamburg or nearby
Arnheim
Europorte back to Hull
Approx 2100 miles ish
all this over a 4 week period
Excellent idea to add the Mohnedam into your schedule.
I can also recommend a visit to one of the lesser known of the Dams at nearby Edersee.
Theres a great little stelplatze at >Hemfurth-Edersee< at the base of the Ederdam.
..and for the Mohnedam there is a good overnight stop at >Mohnesee-Korbecke<
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As said before we are visiting this show, staying on site, has anybody been before . I have been on the www site to get prices for entry, have also joined the caravan salon club ( free) to get discount entry tickets. No prices are quoted for camping on site, any ideas please fellow members???? and any what to do's & what not to do's
many thanks
chris
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Having had a quick look at your blog, did you know you were only a couple of miles away from the village of Ors, the next village across the road and along the canal. This is where the poet Wilfred Owen is buried having being killed during one of the last actions of WW1. There are military graves in the Ors cemetry and his grave is there. We were there a few years ago on this same aire and cycled along the canal. There is a plaque at the bridge over the canal at Ors giving all the details of the action.
Understandably, most people have posted about Auschwitz, not an easy place to go to, but you should. The site at Peenemunde is completely different but the museum, in the wartime power station is fascinating, not least because it is entirely up front about slave labour and so on - though its claim to be the 'birthplace of space travel' is pushing it a bit.
From memory (it is a few years ago since we were there) you can stay overnight on the car park outside the place, but if not there are loads of Stelleplatze nearby, usually next to small harbours, and a good few campsites.
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I have visited all the sites you intend visiting and can highly recommend them all, BUT as far as I was concerned the most awe inspiring and chilling was Birkenau where when walking around keep a look out where you are walking, we found near the gas chambers part of a jawbone and later whilst walking through the ruins we found a silver thimble near the "Canada" houses, Naturally we handed the jawbone over (there was only 1 1/2 teeth showing) and the rest was buried, we uncovered it, and we placed the thimble on the top of a glass case which is there for just that reason.
There is an awful lot to see there.
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I have visited all the sites you intend visiting and can highly recommend them all, BUT as far as I was concerned the most awe inspiring and chilling was Birkenau where when walking around keep a look out where you are walking, we found near the gas chambers part of a jawbone and later whilst walking through the ruins we found a silver thimble near the "Canada" houses, Naturally we handed the jawbone over (there was only 1 1/2 teeth showing) and the rest was buried, we uncovered it, and we placed the thimble on the top of a glass case which is there for just that reason.
There is an awful lot to see there.
One thing is for sure, once you have visited Birkenau, you never forget it, and you certainly have a different outlook on life.
I've visited a number of camps, Dachau, Bergen Belsen, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen, but none of them prepare you for the shear scale of the Auschwitz Killing Machine.
We have been to a lot of theses places to see infoon them go to my website www.joysoeuopeancaravanning.co.uk leaving the r out of Europe and look through the 8 trips we have made in detail.
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