You'd think JFK airport can afford more than three immigration officers on duty at a time. Welcome to New York. The queue slowly winds, another officer takes a break. Fingerprints, picture, suspenseful wait, and I'm through...
New York Part 1 - En Route
Auschwitz-Birkenau
We are at the gates of the notorious death camp that is Auschwitz. After a couple of grey cold miserable days in Krakow, it's eerily sunny and beautiful. The place is calm, trees swaying in the breeze, and the red brick buildings are almost attractive looking. It's freezing cold and the wind is biting. I'm with 4 layers, scarf, hat, gloves, and long underwear - how must it have been with a striped pyjama in the dead of winter...