Gdansk, Poland Travel Blogs

Frei Stadt of Danzig
Mar 2, 2008 (104 photos)

... 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 metres ...

Doughnuts, Waffles, and Bread, Oh My!
Sep 16, 2009 (1 photos)

... ;              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 ...

Kinga
May 13, 2005 (1 photos)

... 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 salad). ...

Gdansk Revisited
Sep 17, 2009 (5 photos)

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 ...

The Land of Randy
Jul 21, 2006 (9 photos)

... . 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 where ...

Communism's Last Stand
Nov 13, 2004 (5 photos)

... 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 museum ...

VM mellom
Jul 8, 2004

Vi lřp vm i polen. kom pĺ 23.plass

Amazing foggy city
Nov 27, 2006

... 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 go ...

Gdansk
Oct 28, 2006 (77 photos)

Real beutiful town, be worth to visit too, with krakow is the most beautifu ...

Gdansk!
Jul 25, 2005 (8 photos)

... 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 bois ...

Gdansk or Danzig (if you are German) Day 2
Jun 25, 2008 (4 photos)

Had a fine breakfast this morning with mixed vegetables, pancakes, hotdogs, cheese, and a variety of other goodies and good coffee. Was fun. We toured the town and went into several churches. Some of them are beyond belief with beauty. We tried to go into ...

Gdansk, Sopot and Malbork
Apr 18, 2007

... 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 daughter ...

Drinks are on me...
Sep 5, 2006

... to a random Polish bar (Rock Cafe) where we befriended a Polish chap called Robert who turned out to be an English teacher in Gdansk. He looked fairly harmless and offered to buy us a traditional Polish shot called the 'mad dog'. It had Tabasco, vodka and ...

In the city of Danzig
Jul 9, 2009 (4 photos)

... . 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 ...

Arrival in Gdansk
Jun 24, 2008 (2 photos)

Arrived in Gdansk safe and sound. The train worked out great and our connections today were great. We got here about 4:00. Our hotel is awesome and overlooks a canal with lots of big boats. We walked all around to check out the scene. It is another ...

Polish port town
Jul 6, 2007

... 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
Jun 25, 2007

... 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 ...

Polish dinner in Gdansk
Jun 26, 2008 (2 photos)

Had a great dinner. Tried some Polish fare. Had pierogies of all kinds. Was fun. Weather has been awesome. Topped our dinner with some authentic Polish desserts from Cukiernia kaliszczak. It's a bakery that is a throw back from communist days. Looks ...

Gdansk, where the Van Den Blocks are well-known
May 13, 2005 (2 photos)

... 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 : first ...

Raining again...
Sep 5, 2006

... 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 since ...

A Day in Gdansk
Jun 24, 2009 (12 photos)

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!!!
Jun 24, 2006

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 ...

Enough with Hitch-hiking and christmas in Gdansk
Dec 24, 2006

... Really? I really would not have expected that and I really appreciate everything that is in... it's so great!!! (Thanks for the Gdansk Historic Map!) We also watch up the Russian version of Winnie the Pooh (Vinni Puh) which makes us laugh so much, it ...

Flight
Sep 20, 2004 (6 photos)

Zdjecia z lotu z Nagoya do Frankfurtu a nastepnie do Gdanska. Na Honsiu kilka dni przed moim przelotem obudzil sie wulkan - polecam zdjecie.

North to Gdansk, Poland
Oct 15, 2005 (15 photos)

... sought after city. I am amazed at the amount of history over here. We also went to a city next to Gdansk called Sopot, which is the vacation hotspot of Poland, and also where most of the best clubs (discos) are located. I really wanted to jump into the ...

Arrival in Gdansk
Jul 14, 2005

Gdansk, Poland Day 1 July 13, 2005 Arrival in Poland on a sunny Wednesday morning, it feels like we just left Russia. Me and my roommate had decided that the night before we would go into town and change money and buy stamps in order to get ready for ...

Kinga
May 13, 2005 (1 photos)

Na ons bezoek aan Gdanks gingen we naar Kingas moeder, Krystyna. Krystyna is a fantastische vrouw, en het is makkelijk te zien vanwie Kinga de reismicrobe heeft gekregen. Voor hen die het nog niet weten : Kinga is een jonge Poolse vrouw die ...

This is summer?
Aug 13, 2005

After Krakow, I boarded a train for Gdansk, which is in northern Poland, near the Baltic Sea. I can't really tell you why I picked it - I had just always heard of it, and I was planning on going to the sea. Well let me tell you, if this is summer, and it ...

Exploring Warszawa
Jun 26, 2008 (2 photos)

Arrived in Warsaw just fine. We had a nice 4 hour train ride and some pleasant travel partners. They were 2 fine gentlemen who jumped to our aide when we were giving it our best shot to hoist our 50# bags above our head onto the rack. One of them spoke ...

A week on the Baltic
Jul 13, 2005 (6 photos)

... to meet up with us. Gdynia is a port near Gdansk that was built during the inter-war period because Poland had lost access to the sea since Gdansk was then a free city. People don't talk much about Gdynia as a tourist destination, since it's entirely ...