• Wednesday 10 April 2024
    Highlights: The interactive tour of The “Wieliczka” Salt Mine, the intense visit of Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory

    Today was a free day to decided what you wanted to do. In the morning most of the group, including Darby and myself selected a visit to The “Wieliczka” Salt Mine which cost 240 PLN each (roughly $94 AUD). For this we had transportation to the mine and back, entry to the salt mine and a guide.

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  • Tuesday 09 April 2024
    Highlights: Visiting Palace Pławniowice, Exploring Wawel Royal Castle

    Today was a long travel day from Berlin, Germany to Krakow, Poland. This is a roughly 600 km trip which was originally expected to take 6 hours but leaving at 07:30 and arriving at 17:15 it took 9.5 hours. This was mostly due to road works and massive number of shipping trucks.

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  • Sunday 08 April 2024
    Highlights: Brandenburger Gate, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, The Canals of Berlin, the stunning Berlin Cathedral, visiting the remaining section of the Berlin Wall, exploring an underground bunker.

    Today our Tour CEO Christin kindly offered a tour of Berlin that wasn’t part of the official G Adventure tour. Originally this extra was to take 1 to 1.5 hours but Christin kept expanding it as we asked questions. Most of the group started this unofficial morning tour but only 5 remained for the entire walk.

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  • Sunday 07 April 2024
    Highlights: Getting lost trying to get to our hotel, meeting our tour group

    Today we ended our short pause in Helsinki to get to the start of our G Adventures Eastern Europe, Croatia and the Balkans tour starting in Berlin.

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  • Finnair
    Date: 7 April 2024
    Gate: 23
    Seat: 5A & 6A (Economy Class Seats)
    Plane: Airbus 320
    Boarded: 10:55
    Pushback: 11:23 (Scheduled 11:25)
    Arrived: 12:19 (Scheduled 12:30)
    Duration: 1 hours 56 minutes
    Distance: 1,129 kms

    This flight was from Helsinki-Vantaa (Finland) Airport to Berlin Brandenburg (Germany) Airport Willy Brandt.  This flight was between two countries in the European Schengen travel area so similar to domestic Australian flight.

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