Feet in warm water as the Pacific gently breaks on the shores of North Island, New Zealand a few miles south of the most northern tip - Cape Reinga - it doesn't get much better than this!

With the 'Gate of Death' gatehouse just behind me, a stark view, on a grey rainy day, of the rails in the infamous ramp ('Altejudenrampe') area where so many were unceremoniously deposited for the last time during the Holocaust at Auschwitz II - Birkenau.