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Thank you for sharing the details of your Auschwitz tour and the feelings it invoked. What a change in temperature it will be when you get to London. While hot, you sound like me and would much prefer the hot to the cold!

Hope SIL can safely get home soon. Can't imagine having major medical problems while traveling, especially internationally!

Four more nights left on the trip. SIL was released from the hospital yesterday and they are staying at the hotel at Madrid airport until the insurance company gets clearance from her doctor that she can fly. Hopefully that comes today? In the US usually doctors are most available in the hospital in early morning. In Spain it seemed to be mostly after siesta so her doctor visits and procedures were all late in the day.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau tour was as sobering as expected. Probably appropriate that it was cool and drizzly. So many lives lost. Just trying to imagine how the camp workers went along with it is mind-boggling but I guess they were in fear of their lives too. Large rooms filled with human hair and shoes taken from the bodies after they died. The tour guide was phenomenal. It was similar to visiting Gettysburg battle grounds in that you could sense the tragedy and the horror. Touring the camps the day after the uprising museum provided higher appreciation for why the Poles are so proud of that uprising. At the end Warsaw was completely destroyed but They Fought Back!!! One part of the tour that resonates is where the walls are lined with pictures of people who were killed including 15 year old identical twins. Only a small fraction of those that died but they make it more meaningful. At this time in our world we need to remember what can happen when a leader has absolute power and followers who blindly do their bidding against people designated as "enemies".

Onto more pleasant travels - Old Town in Krakow is very picturesque. Larger than the same in Warsaw and the buildings are obviously older since the ones in Warsaw had to be reconstructed.

Eating was junky yesterday other than fish at dinner. My intestines are complaining. I ate pretty much on plan throughout the Spain days, but we have had a couple of days foraging lately.

We had a good visit the last few days with DSS and his wife. We leave at 10 to fly to London. We will arrive there late afternoon for 4 nights. I have never been there though DH has which is why we tacked it on. The high today in London is 90 degrees after 4 days in Poland rarely getting above 60. I have been freezing with no real jacket - I had to double up on light layers.

Have a fabulous Friday!

Sounds like you are ready for company! Have a great visit!

Have a great time with your guest. Costco rotisserie chicken is always a good decision!

It does sound like you are in the center of a hurricane! Praying all those you care about get the care they need and can experience some peace through it all! I've never taken more than a weekend trip with only a carry on! You are a super packer!