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Travel Blogs from Bydgoszcz
Town of Gingerbread
... of a glass of vodka, 8 beers, 2 soups, 2 choices of hot meal and 2 choices of salad or bread – what a deal!! We didn’t take advantage of this menu item but our choice selections were still plentiful. See the photo of Jeff rolling out of Restauracja Oberza.
I think that we were worn out from the travelling we have done to date or perhaps it was the food we ate but we headed back to ...
Copernicus and Gingerbread
... in making designer gingerbread. I love hands-on activities and right away took advantage of the situation. While making "pierniki" I asked a million questions about their history and realized that all I really new about gingerbread was what I ate.
I learned a lot about the history of designer gingerbread which, filled with expensive, aromatic spices, and painted with gold, was used as precious gifts for kings, popes, dignitaries, as wedding ...
Home of Nicolas Copernicus
... or sit on the steps, a few fountains that are nice, a few parks, some city walls that are also nice. The city walls are made out of brick. Things are getting quite repetitive in Eastern Europe. Every city has an old town, they are all designed almost the same. It is a nice old town, but just getting a bit repetitive. I stayed in a 12 bed hostel called Orange Hostel. I had the room to myself until 5 AM when a couple came in and started having sex. ...
Born Toruń
... become part of Euro 2012. The number of Irish fans staying here is estimated between 3,000 and 6,000, the vast majority of them making full use of the many outside bars spread across the main square.
Toruń’s most famous son is Nicholas Copernicus, the 16th century astronomer who first espoused the idea that the earth is not the centre of the universe. His statute (draped on my arrival by an Ireland scarf) is the focal point of ...
Dad's old house
... I can't remember so will verify later.
Running out of battery don't know if all pics will upload. Will clean things up next time I get a charge and internet access.
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Added a few additional pics of Bydgoszcz
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