Today we had specifically stayed in Warsaw to attend the Climate Strike marches. As we both have environmental degrees, try our best to live eco consciously and Markles being an encyclopedia of science knowledge, we wanted to show our support.
Mark had it all planned, we needed to be at city hall around 1pm. So that’s what we did…and then we stood there on our todd looking confused. I had a quick Google and turns out it was 11am not 1pm… what a pair of numpties 😂🙈 Still it is great to see all the actions around the world… fingers crossed it will activate governments, businesses and more individuals.
As well as this we also visited the lovely food market Hala Mirowska where a pigeon was helping himself to a huge bag of grain, and the world’s narrowest house – the Keret House. Today it was being rented by a couple of musicians. At 152 cm at its widest point and 92 cm at its most narrow, I wondered what the acoustics would be like – they did say they would be playing quite minimalistically.
Another perk of visiting the narrow house is that it’s next to a lovely bakery with different doughnut options…if I stay in Poland too long I will get addicted…there are so many bakeries!
They also had some public cinema posts, where you look through the eye piece and turn a knob and an old photo becomes 3D.
It was a fun precursor to our visit to the Warsaw Fotoplasticon – the oldest stereoscopic cinema in Europe, which has been operating since 1905. You sit on little stools, in a circle around a big drum and look through the eye piece at different slides that rotate around…yes very odd and hard to explain but a great way to see polish history. It was truly devastated during the war, but has been rebuilt with masses of building work still ongoing.
Before leaving our final foodie thing was to try a Zapiekanka – a polish open faced sandwich. We visited Zapiexy Luxusowe which was nicely tucked away. I ordered my ‘make your own’ in polish which raised a smile with my terrible pronunciation but she correctly guessed in English what I was after. Our best tip…go for larger toppings. Things like sweetcorn just fall off and go everywhere 😂
We are now enroute to Krakow and parked up in a moterway carpark for the night. It does the job. Any recommendations for things to visit or eat are always very welcome. We must try a milk bar at some point!
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