I had meant to post last week but things got busy. A happy Bastille Day to my french friends. Your parade in Paris is the envy of a certain weeettle poopookins. 😉
Westerplatte is a peninsula in Gdansk. It is where WW2 started when Germany stormed this resort area on September 1, 1939. One of the times I visited Gdansk I went to Westerplatte which is now a memorial park. It still has some of the bombed out buildings as well as a markers showing before and after photos, providing a history of what happened during those early days of WW2.
One of the most amazing things in this area is the monument. It is an imposing presence (in a good way), a marvel of construction and design.
This monument overlooks the canal. It’s the Monument of the Coast Defenders (Pomnik Obrońców Wybrzeża) and was unveiled in 1966. You can sort of see the scale with the people at the base of it.
I love traveling and have been lucky enough to do a lot of it across the United States, most of eastern Canada and Europe. Here are some of my favorite places and memories from Europe. Hopefully there will be many more photos once travel is allowed again. Additionally, I am a real estate market analyst focusing on housing and senior housing issues and this had led me to travel all over for work. I have conducted research in Poland and the U.S. housing and senior issues, creating original data, and publishing results in a variety of publications. My book about senior housing issues in Poland is now available on amazon. https://tinyurl.com/yxml38bo. It too has some unique photos in it.
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