Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The Anne Frank House is the most popular tourist attraction in Amsterdam. We did not know until it was too late that we should have pre-purchased our tickets 6 weeks in advance. Keep that in mind if you are visiting Amsterdam. On a personal note, it feels weird to call this particular place a tourist
My apologies for the delay in this series, this is a difficult post to write. Concentration camps are not easy places to visit. They are places of sadness, death, and painful memories. That being said, they should be visited. The people whose lives were shattered in those awful places deserve to be remembered. Sachsenhausen is
I posted the first part of this story last week and it can be read here. But I wanted to talk a little bit about Amache after the people incarcerated there had left. The buildings that were built in the 1940’s are no longer there. The buildings that have been added since Amache became a
I want to preface this post by noting that this is a topic that is not discussed enough. I don’t remember learning much about Japanese Interment Camps in school. I had to talk to the special collections librarian at my local library to find local information. These pictures are very pretty and now the landscape
While climbing Slieve League our guide, Barry, told us some wild stories of events that had occurred in Ireland. There were two in particular that stood out to me. The Battle of the Book and plane crash from WWII on the far side of Donegal Bay. Battle of Cúl Dreimhne | Battle of the Book
Title: The Library of LegendsAuthor: Janie ChangPublication Date: 2020Publishing House: William Morrow The Library of Legends was actually my April 2020 book from Book of the Month. I highly suggest this monthly subscription box if you are interested in expanding what you read and don’t worry, if you don’t like the choices you can skip
The first thing I asked when fining out that the National Museum of the Pacific War was in Fredericksburg, Texas was why was it in Fredericksburg, Texas? Well Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is from there. This museum is massive as it covers all of the Pacific Theater during WWII and looks briefly at the history
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