Adventures

The Grand Place in Brussels I love travelling alone. I love the feeling of getting off a long bus ride in a totally new place and walking the streets and finding my way. I love the freedom of being totally anonymous in a crowd full of strangers. I love finding the perfect cafe, the best picnic spot, a hidden alleyway or references to home. Sunset in Antwerp I spent the past week travelling around Belgium and Amsterdam with two of my closest friends. Travelling with friends wa

Poland is a very particular type of Holocaust experience. Don’t get me wrong - I love Poland. I think it’s a beautiful country, with so much to offer beyond the Holocaust context. I think some amazing, inventive and important things are being done there in terms of Jewish education and Jewish community development. I had a really meaningful time there last month on my trip with my Scottish teens, exploring the legacy of the Holocaust and our Jewish connections. Amsterdam was

In October 2019 I led a UJIA delegation of 11 Scottish teenagers to visit Jewish sites across Poland. The following blog posts were originally written and posted on the UJIA blog. Day One - October 16 Today was our first day in Poland. 11 Jewish teenagers from across Scotland, who I have the pleasure of accompanying, set forth exploring the towns and Jewish remnants of Galicia, what was once the centre of the Jewish world. We started off in Lancut, where we visited a beautifu