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Frei Stadt of Danzig
... and said, even though we are in Poland, it feels more like Sweden or Flemish Belgium. It just didn't feel right. Westerplatte About 10 K's away is Westerplatte, a place famous for where WW2 started. As we had been over the bridge in ...
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Still Chilling Out in Gdansk
... of their lungs. Why do 8 year old girls do that? It seems to be universal and wired into their DNA. Westerplatte is on a peninsula sticking out into the Baltic Sea on one side and a port area on the other. I checked the schedule ...
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A week on the Baltic
... the first shots of the war were fired, at Westerplatte and the Polish post office. We had a chance to visit Westerplatte, but unfortunately didn't make it to the post office. Westerplatte is where Polish troops defended against a German battleship for ...
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Gdansk
... found the connection to the airport was poor so had to fit everything in that night and it was already 8.30. Got a taxi to Westerplatte (where WW2 officially started) to see where the bombs first fell. I had a feeling the taxi was trying to rip me off, ...
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I'm in food heaven!
... (well except for those in Ukraine and Russia but those are massive countries that require long journeys). I was going to Gdansk, Poland. Buses are usually very uncomfortable when it comes to long journeys, especially overnight ones as you can never get ...
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POLAND - seventh part - Tricity and Malbork
... (cranes, storage centers and shipbuilding industries) some old fortresses and at the confluence with the Baltic Sea, the peninsula of Westerplatte that in 19th century was a popular sea-side resort with luxury hotels and spas and later became a Polish ...
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A Short Hop to Gdansk
... further details, here is a URL that describes the incredible valour of those 205 men:- http://www.Gdańsk-life.com/poland/battle-westerplatte Once past the monument, it was a further 3.5 miles into the city, past an industrial landscape, much of it ...
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back to Gdansk
... sight is pretty ordinary for them I got to Gdansk late afternoon, and spent the rest of the day and the follwing day "being a tourist". The weather had perked up, and I took a boat trip out to the Westerplatte where the first shots of WWII were ...
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We came to see the sea...
... , the most recent being WW2. On the second day we braved the weather and went on a motor vessel trip out to Westerplatte - where the first shots of the Second World War were fired upon the garrison by a German naval vessel. Unfortunately it was ...
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Gdansk
... made us pay a fine..(do you see a pattern forming?). The next day we had a tour on a boat and we went to Westerplatte. This is the place where the second world war began. There are amazing memorials there and we spent time just walking in the ...
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- Court of the Fraternity of St. George
- National Art Museum
- Archaeological Museum (Muzeum Archeologiczne)
- Fortress of the Vistula River Mouth
- Neptune's Fountain (Fontanna Neptuna)
- Mariacka Street (ulica Mariacka)
- Royal Way
- St. Mary's Church (Kosciol Mariacki)
- Old Town
- Haga
- Three Crosses Monument
- King Arthur's Court (Dwor Artusa)
- Gdansk History Museum (Muzeum Historyczne Gdanska)
- Town Hall (Ratusz)
- St. Nicholas Church (Kosciol Sw Mikolaja)
- Great Crane (Zuraw)
- Green Gate (Brama Zielona)
- Dluga Street (ul. Dluga)
- St. Catherine's Church (Kosciol Sw. Katarzyny)
- Maritime Museum (Muzeum Morskie)