Northern Europe Trip - Day 0.5-1: Warsaw

Two weeks ago I went on a trip around Northern Europe, and it got off to a really bad start. I thought my train was leaving from Westbahnhof, but actually it was Suedbahnhof, so I had to pay for a taxi to catch it. When I got to the train station I still had 5 minutes to go to my platform and board the train, but unforunately there was another train leaving at the same time, and I just took a quick glance at the monitor and went to the wrong platform. When I had realized what I had done and got to the right platform, I was 3 minutes too late... :'( There was nothing I could do and the ticket was non-refundable and non-exchangeable, so I had to buy another ticket to go to Warsaw the next morning... What a disaster...


Nathan's Villa Hostel



staircase



12 bed mixed dorm



nice washrooms



After I settled down it was already 5pm and it's getting dark outside... So I wasted the entire day and just walked back to the city centre to take a picture of the Palace of Culture and Sciences



Rau Palace. The next day I tried to wake up early to go sightseeing.



Poznanski Palace



I went south along the Royal Route to Park Ujazdowski



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the beautiful autumn foliage along Al. Ujazdowskie



After that I spent the morning at Lazienki Park, a huge park studded with palaces, temples and monuments. I think it's around 70 acres?


Astronomical Observatory



Stara Pomaranczarnia, some sort of pavilion?



peacock in the park



Palace on the Island



Chopin Monument



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Theatre on the Island



Ujazdowski Castle



Kan Piaseczyns



Sejm and Senat



St. Alexander's Church. After the park I walked north toward the Old Town



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Nowy Swiat Street in the New Town



Chopin Museum. It was closed 2 days ago to change the exhibition :'(



Church of the Holy Cross



A picture with Copernicus!



Polish Theatre



University of Warsaw



Church of St Stephan's Care and Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Monument



Presidential Palace



Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St Joseph



Wessel Palace


Galeria Zacheta and Malachaowskiego



Monument of Unknown Soldiers and Saxon Park. The gate was part of a palace destroyed in WWII, now guarded around the clock



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Grand Theatre - National Opera



the Castle Square in the Old Town with the red Royal Castle



the tin-roofed palace



a street in the Old Town



Warsaw mermaid in the Old Town Market Square



Barbican and the Old City Wall



Warsaw uprising monument



the courthouse



Jan Kilinski monument at the old town



the Little Insurgent, a monument for children who were killed in the uprising



Palac Prymasowski



the other side of the Grand Theatre/National Opera at Theatre Square