Poland was also the location where Nazi German concentration camps operated, some of them, like Stutthof, having held more Lithuanians than people of most other ethnicities. In the very south of Poland, mountainous Zakopane was a popular place to heal from tuberculosis, becoming a place where th...
Its in similar terrain, bordering the Hürtgen forest in the Parc Naturel Hautes Fagnes or Hohes Venn where I battled my bulge, but on impeccable infrastructure. It remains, for me as a South African, incredible to be in fairly remote and secluded parts of these European forests, just to s...