My flight from Madrid to Copenhagen had a long layover in Warsaw. So I ventured out 🙂 Bought a full-day public transportation pass for like $4. The trains were great!
I visited some memorials. One to the victims of the KLW in WWII. One to those lost in the Warsaw Uprising. And the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier representing many many battles. Poland has been a land of many conflicts.
Lovely streets. Clean and colorful 🙂
Found a Carrefour and bought some local candy 🙂
Unicorn well!!
Visited the Marie Sklodowska-Curie museum
Housed in her childhood home. Well rebuilt from what was left of it after the Warsaw Uprising. You can see the plaque in the photo below.
Young Maria
A miniature re-creation of their lab in Paris. Found polonium and radium there!
She loved her daughters and they were very involved in her work. Irene examines her mother’s fingers, burned from handling radioactive material.
Her doctoral thesis and her daughter’s biography of her
Some of her things…desk, dress, radium-infused things including some lab equipment
She became deservedly very famous. Here she is, the only woman among all the great physicists of her day. She didn’t let the expectations of others derail her passion for science. Incredible lady!
Found a green quiet spot outside of the old city walls and chilled for a bit
Got some incredible grapefruit gelato and wandered. Pope John Paul II was from here
Found a memorial to Copernicus…thanks for figuring out how that we are are the ones orbiting!
Headed back the airport. Had time for dinner…so fish and chips for me! With the craziest chunky tartar sauce 🙂
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