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Gdansk Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Gdansk, Poland
Frei Stadt of Danzig
This is a top pick! ... from 1945. It was a good tour and we were lucky we were the only two, or we would not have seen all this. Gdansk Slowly we went, and we had arrived in Gdansk. It was night, the streets were pretty empty, so we walked the Royal 300 ...
Doughnuts, Waffles, and Bread, Oh My!
... ; Gofry (pronounced Gofree, I think) are waffles in Poland. We had seen several restaurants yesterday serving them in the early evening. Mistakenly I wanted some for ...
Quite the Experience
... of people who speak English. But that just makes it an even more meaningful experience. The first day I arrived in Gdansk I was absolutely exhausted. I had spent the entire day on trains, both of which were ridiculously crowded. I'm not ...
Kinga
... children. If you want to find out more : www.odysseyofthemind.com Kinga's father let us taste some good Polish beer from Gdansk (Kaper) and after that we drove to Kinga's place where her flatmate had some vegan food for us (Lentils and spinach ...
Gdansk Revisited
Back to Gdansk today to see if we can get into some of the museums that we missed yesterday because everything is closing early these days. Tourist season officially must be over but there are still plenty of tourists around the area. We are now ...
Bike shipment
... at 6 in the morning I didn't suspect that our long planned 'adventure’ could start so early. We were supposed to be in Gdansk around 9-10 o’clock. This gave us about 4 hours what seemed more than enough to cover a 165 km (100 miles) distance. ...
Venturing Forth Yet Again Just For You
Only I would dare take almost two valuable hours out of an already packed day to bring you yet another hidden treasure. Again proving that I will go to any lengths to bring you only the world's finest cultural and photo opportunities I present Europe's ...
The Land of Randy
... . We had a scruffy deep voiced Polish woman as our guide who explained to us that many of their young and talented people are leaving Poland for better lives as they do not have enough work in Poland. The main claim to fame of the city is that it is ...
Off we went
... Gdansk used to be called Danzig, and there are still quite a number of people who keep calling it that. Regardless of its name, Gdansk is well known for many things. Most of all, the medieval old town. We parked in some place near the city's medieval ...
Finally in Poland
I am glad to have pushed into Poland where people appreciate good heavy food and actually eat breakfast. In Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia I found that breakfast is a nonevent. Didn't everone here's mom get mad if we skipped breakfast? It ...
Communism's Last Stand
... was destroyed during WWII and reconstructed back to its formal glory. The facade of the various buildings were absolutely spectacular. Gdansk is also known for as the first city where Nazis attacked and subsequently started WWII. I visited the City ...
Amazing foggy city
... 300 km further. So first he needed to stop for gas, we did on the way and talk as well. Therefore, I arrived quite early in Gdansk I was in town by 11ham and been left at the train station. I finally sms Anya (HC:phoebe78) who had once invited me to ...
Gdansk!
... voir les gens deborder des eglises et sortir en file indienne. Toutes sont vraiment recentes et pas tres expressives, sauf ici a Gdansk, ou l architecture est hallucinante . Les gens sont tres coquets. On se sent un peu decalees, femmes-velo sorties des ...
Gdansk, Sopot and Malbork
... that dried by the time i got off the bus. My trip into Poland from Vilnius involved a 12 hour overnight bus trip to Gdansk on the baltic coast of Poland. Yes. 12 hours. On a bus. For those of you that know that i am my mother's ...
Drinks are on me...
... , another 200, as a fact. Only 5 more to go now and you find yourself on the roof of the church, the highest point in Gdansk and you realise that there was a reason why you punished yourself for 405 steps. Just stunning, it was a little windy though, so ...
Boris the Bear-For my Nephew
I am really enjoying my trip around the world with your uncle. I am getting to see a lot of cool things but mostly I just get to see the inside of your uncle's backpack while getting poked by pens and getting soaked in bugspray, toothpaste ...
In the city of Danzig
... . It is considered to be the capital of a metropolis called 3miasto (3city), and has got one of the biggest harbours in Poland. The main tourist attraction is, undoubtedly, the Old Town. It is located just a zebra crossing away from the main railway ...
Still Chilling Out in Gdansk
... four times and discover something new every time. Since I accidentally stumbled upon where WWI started in Sarajevo I couldn't leave Gdansk without standing where WWII began. I'll be honest, I accidentally stumbled upon the fact that WWII started in ...
Polish port town
... we went with Lucyna and Kaja to pick up Ewa from Gdansk, where she was arriving by train from Wroclaw. Gdansk was once a Prusian town, then part of Poland and changed hands a number of times and one point of time was know as the Independent Free City of ...
Gdansk
... braking from 90 mph the officials congratulated us on beating car 102 again. All we had to do now was nurse the car back to Gdansk to reach the final control, and a well earned rest day. Final results showed us back in 2nd place with a 35 second margin ...
Gdansk is gnice
... , but we managed it. We have the Poland Eyewitness Travel book so we are following it to find the sights. First we see several churches that are all ...
Gdansk, where the Van Den Blocks are well-known
... or Diest. After that we drove to Gdansk by some small routes, a real experience...but more about that later. Gdansk is one of the most beautiful cities in Poland, maybe even in the whole of Eastern Europe. And it has 2 special meanings for Frank : ...
This one is for my nephew
Dear Harris, I am really enjoying traveling around the world and wish you could see be here. The only bad part is riding upside down in your uncle's backpack and I keep getting poked with pens and stuff. And when he is done with his camera he ...
Raining again...
... of the carriage. Each compartment has large overhead luggage racks too so no problems there. The train to our next destination, Gdansk, north Poland, took about 4 hours or so. The view from the train was really the first we had seen of rural Poland ...
A Day in Gdansk
After Malbork Castle, we headed north to seaside Gdansk. Though we were only there a short time, we were quite taken with the quaint little town. We spent most of our time in the main square and wandering its side streets, with a quick break for gofrey ...
Almost to Hel and back!!!
Wow!!! What an adventure we had in Poland...(please excuse this entry if there are any errors, I am writing on a German keyboard) We arrived at the train station in Gdansk and the first thing our tired little eyes fall upon is ghetto!!! WOW:.. we walk up ...