Pension - Gdansk - Suchanino

... determined to just spend a lazy day by the seashore.

The weather today is great. Not too cold if you are in the sun. We checked our email messages last night and discovered that we might have purchased a house in Florida, if we can get all the paperwork and such done long distance. As we have done this before, shouldn't be a problem. Just getting all our ducks in a row and going to whatever ...

I am not a hot chocolate drinker. Maybe one or two Swiss Miss packets in a 2 or 3 year period is about enough for me and then I need enough marshmallows to totally take over the chocolate. So a couple of years ago (already!), traveling in Croatia, one of the other tourists (Thank you Heather!), got a cup of hot chocolate at a roadside restaurant. I was intrigued to see that ...

... away. My voice is low so possibly she didn’t hear. She returns in 20 minutes (I know the time because a timer was counting down my internet time) I order one of the wines. It comes 30 minutes later. Had I not had a lot of internet business we would have been long gone. She could have drunk the wine herself then.

Car dealership, a used car dealership ...

... gave us information that we had not had yesterday and showed us some new areas that we had missed. It was a good little tour.

She had told us a good place to eat baked potatoes too. We headed for that. On the way though we passed the Uphagen House which has furniture from the period when it was a viable house. It was open so we ducked into it and got a free ride with our tourist ...

... correct area, I decided to buy a ticket from a kiosk rather than on the bus. This would save me a huge 20 cents but would also force me to interact with a clerk in a place where I don't speak the language.

I took my chances and asked the old man if he spoke English or German (German is common here among older people since this area was obviously part of Germany at different times in history). To my surpise he spoke some rough English that was ...

24th June
Warsaw to Gdansk
Rain periods 18 degrees

We followed the Vistula River north out of Warsaw on our way to Gdansk. We left in rain and drove through some rainy periods most of the way. It looked like clearing as we neared Gdansk but just as we found our accommodation it bucketed down again. Not to be deterred we unpacked and set out for Gdansk Old Town. We found the parking area and walked up to the main street (a ...

... commercial port and worked out much better anyway, although it is in a very depressed part of town. It rained most of the night but without the gale force winds so we got some sleep. It was either that, or the
combination of no sleep last night and a bottle of wine with dinner.

Our tour today was supposed to involve a bus tour with various stops and walking, but since it was raining cats and dogs we drove by most of the ...

... bumping into the most annoying man ever - and guess where he was from - Yes Manchester! Oh my God he was giving us his life story & more, & was one of those people who knows everything but in reality everything coming out of his mouth is a load of rubbish - an example is he was saying petrol in Gdansk was expensive, saying its 25p more expensive than England - I'd love to know when he last drove in England to be getting his petrol at £0.90 a litre ...

... by slight of hand exchange your Euro with bad. Anyway, I shook my head no and gave him the move on nod. What was really cool is that minutes later two cops walked by. I showed them the picture of to guys, what was said to me and pointed the direction that they headed. They were very interested and went off after them. Monday, I made it back to the Beach for some serious sunbathing and swimming, my own form of ...

... on the map, without success, well rather we decided to call it quits before the sun went down completely. Elissa made me buy some clothes tonight though, green, apparently they match my eyes. One of them I really like, the other I hope will grow on me because at the moment it seems far too bright (but it is really soft and long enough sleeve-wise). Then we broke the bank yet again by going to TGIF for dinner, but it was sooo delicious!