It has taken me a while to write this, what I mean to say is this is a motorcycle travel blog, I am not party political or even religious – but you need to see what I have seen… Auschwitz and Birkenau in south-west Poland. So here we have a place known to us all, renowned for all the wrong reasons, the site of the murder of over one and a quarter million individuals, people like you and me, our wives, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers, 12,000 murders a day. So ask yourself, are you an enemy of the state, a communist, a socialist, a criminal, an engineer, a doctor, educated and professional, a church leader, an immigrant, a Jehovah’s Witness, a gypsy, homosexual, antisocial or Jewish – I would be selected on at least two counts.