Hotel Willa Isabel 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!

Yesterday we are walking up the square in Sopot, Poland and I notice people sitting in a café with cups of what looks like ...

... Usually you can get a taster, several of their beers in small glasses. The bartender does not see us. I walk to the other end of the bar. Neither one of us is seen. Hubby waves his arms and finally attracts notice and gets his beer.

Hotel bar and café. You can sit and use the internet. There are menus where you can get small snacks or expensive wines and beers ...

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 almost experts on moving about on the trams so got to the main tourist street quite quickly. The amber museum was still not open. It is housed in ...

... memorial at the entrance to the shipyards to commemorate a December 1970 uprising caused by the government's increase of prices for life's necessities such as already scarce bread and milk. "Officially" 45 were killed with 1165 injured but with 27,000 soldiers, 55 tanks, 750 armored personnel carriers and 20,000 civil militiamen such as firemen attacking the prostestors, the number is probably much higher.

Can you imagine how bad it must have been ...

... entrances to the city long ago and marks the beginning of a restored area of buildings and shops. It would have been a very nice place to walk around, shop, look at buildings and get a bite to eat except that it is all outdoors and it was pouring rain. Our guide had a very irritating voice and style of speaking. As soon as we got off the bus we, along with half the bus, ditched her and just walked around
on our own. We found a ...

... at the restaurant in the hotel, which was actually quite fancy. The salad was excellent and came with vegetarian patties covered in walnut cottage cheese (tastier than it sounds), and we had perogies stuffed with veal and covered with bacon and shallots (mmm ... perogies). Then of course, we went to bed. We made our way to Sopot, a city right next to Gdansk that has a really nice beach area. It was not a super nice day ...

... Targ (Long Market in "English"), is the best place to begin your exploration of the Cities tourist district, with many enchanting buildings and Baroque architecture to view. The area was destroyed during World War II, but rebuilt shortly afterward to resemble the 17th Century architecture which once stood there. Places to admire along the streets, are the renaissance ...

... more lakes than any other European country apart from Finland. Virtually every little village has a stork-nesting platform atop a telegraph- or electricity-pole, and I had just about givem up hope of photographing a stork in residence until late in the morning as I drove through a Hamlet. The locals were, I think, a little ...

... road the heavens opened, and when I say that I'm talking flash flood type rain, ended up totally soaked through as we had to carry on so as not to miss the train. As soon as we got to the station, the sky cleared and the rain stopped, looks like someone is out to get us. Polish trains are pretty shoddy looking from the outside, all painted in grey and green. but once you get inside its a totally different story. Each carriage has a bunch of compartments with 6 seats in each and ...