Elena Gdansk

... sea shells although there are precious little offerings in this area. A few families have their children stripped to the diapers and the young toddlers play in the sand and want to get buried like big brother. There are sailboats on the horizon and an occasional wind surfer but not a lot of wind today so they are moving quite slowly through the waves. An eyrar of swans guard the shore in one area ...

... came very thick, almost as thick as chocolate pudding. I tasted hers and it was like chocolate pudding! As the drink cooled, it got thicker and thicker. They bring a spoon along with it so that you can finish it to the bottom of the glass. Yum!<br><br> Yesterday we are walking up the square in Sopot, Poland and I notice people sitting in a café with cups of what looks like ...

... from the table behind us. We wave and wave. Finally we stand up and wave and then the waiter comes. We repeat the process to pay our bill. Why do I think that if we stood up and just started to walk away that we would be very visible?<br><br> Sitting in the plane next to the window. The flight attendant approaches with the snack and drink cart. She asks the two ladies ...

... old prison and torture cells but while the sign outside shows lots of things to see inside, there was no entrance gate or ticket seller.<br><br> As we are walking into the old town on the pedestrian area, a young tourist guide approaches us. She gives tours in an electric car for ½ hour, an hour, or 1 ½ hour which includes going up to an overlook of the city. As I always go UP, it ...

We have observed a phenomenon across several countries now. Doughnuts are not breakfast food any more in much of Asia. We're used to Dunkin&#8217; Donuts being open by 6:30 or 7 in the morning so you can stop on your way to work and pick up coffee and doughnuts, either just for yourself or for everyone. If ...

... resettling the renovated town themselves...or at least that is what the camp ground owner`s wife told me last night in the camping bar...<br><br>She also told me Gdansk was the birthplace of the eventual collapse of the German Wall because as she saw it, it was Solidarnosc by Lech Walesa who first had the b*lls to stand up to brutal Russian hegemony, "us the Polish people, not those whimps surrounding us", she told me vehemently ...

... BUT I arrive in Oldenburg at 11:23 PM!!!!! 16 hours it is going to take me!!!! So should be intersting!!!! The poeple at this hostel are super nice! Today I FINALLY got to the hostel after takign the tream to the wrong place, which actually turned out to be the RIGFHT place- I walked for almost an HOUR in the WRONG direction- my map was only HALF the city- I went to the Tourist office and they agcve me a map of half the city!!! So I then take a tram ...

... that treaty with us (that is ******* off Russia) seems like their own way of showing their stubbornness to Russia. Their country has been repeatedly destroyed by war because they are surrounded by Russia, Germany, and Austria. Gdansk (called Danzig by the Germans) and Warsaw suffered the <br>heaviest bombing during WWII and you can still see the burned out buildings that were never torn down or replaced after all these years ...

... take a while. I'll meet you in Berlin in 3 days." St. Bridget's - a cool little church with ties to the Solidarity movement. It was the church of Lech Walesa, Solidarity's former leade. Talk about a fall from grace - the once venerated Priest of St. Bridget's, Henryk Jankowski was removed from power amid allegations of pedophilia. Creepy. We stepped outside into a storm - Hurricane Maria has blown into town ...