Explaining Bonaparte

Maps that explained Bonaparte and his conquests before Waterloo. Plus big portraits.

 

Find the Puppy

Where'd he go?

 

Into the City

Outside of the guard rooms, nothing was truly finished in the excavations. They go on for miles, and some connect with each other. But they're not finished off. It was hard and brutal work with very little in true mining equipment. The Poles have done a good job showing what was what, though, with researchers having been filmed and put into holograms to explain things - in English and Polish.

 

Small Backpack

A half a backpack and a teeny tiny wallet.

 

On a Cloudy Day

We visited Westerplatte on a very cloudy day. The photos are somewhat brooding because of it.

 

Lots of Red and Black

The main floor of the Waterloo museum has walls painted red. I guess that's fitting. A lot of paintings and readings in it, too.

 

Puppies on the Road

Out on the road with friends while Chad ponders his choices in life.

 

Project Riese Guard Room

All of this was excavated with smaller tools and then finished out. The excavations didn't start until late 1943, and then were abandoned in early 1945. You can see what they were meant to become in the guard room, which is just after the entrance. 

 

The Barracks

This was actually the barracks where the first battle of WWII began. There were fewer than 100 men. Yet they managed to hold out for two weeks.