General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Łódź

Up nice and early to get the taxi to the Edinburgh Airport. Off to Poland to Łódź in Poland as my eldest son is getting married. His fiancée is Polish. The flight is fine, but it lands at Modlin Warsaw airport. The plan pre-pandemic was to have a day in Warsaw prior to the wedding, but post pandemic, this has changed.

My daughter meet us at the airport and after lunch, we travel to Łódź. So we will spend the night in a nice hotel before going to the wedding venue. Unfortunately, crossed wires means I don't have a reservation I thought my son had made. Fortunately they have rooms.

After unpacking, and after a coffee in the hotel, the whole family goes for a walk. First to the new Centrum Manufaktura, an area that used to be an industrial centre in Łódź. which is now an area of cinemas, cafés and a rather large shopping centre. Extra 1 shows the Elektrownia, the old power station. It was a café for a while.

We decide to go for a walk along the longest street in the world, Piotrkowska. The main blip is a monument dedicated to General Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Freedom Square. He was an active participant in the American War of Independence. Extra 2 is the Pharmacy Museum which has a plaque to the journalist Zofia Hertz-Neuding. Outside the bar where we settled is the The Lamp Man, Extra 3. It was created by Marcel Szytenchelm, commemorating the 100th anniversary of electric street lighting in Łódź.

We have an evening meal in a Bulgarian restaurant, before one last drink at a very trendy bar before retiring to bed.