Dwor Oliwski Gdansk

... around before hauling out and acting as if they are not at all cold. Some Poles sunbathe as it will not be long before the weather is too cold to sit outside in your swimsuit.<br><br> After walking off the pier, we go for a walk on the beach. The beach extends for miles in either direction. I would imagine it might be possible to walk to Gdansk down the beach and Gdynia up the beach. People stop and ...

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 ...

... to see if we want to buy. We leave.<br><br> A restaurant, a café, someplace where it is necessary to be served. I ask for a menu from a waiter so they will know we are there. We sit close to the door. The waiter comes and serves the table next to us then walks past us back into the restaurant. Next the waiter comes and serves the table across from us and then gets ...

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 ...

... ice cream in the morning, a nice ice cream soft serve or a regular cone. Later in the morning though the gofry places started opening up. A waffle all by itself is rather inexpensive, about $1. But you have to add the whipped cream and fruit to make it especially delicious. Gonna have another one tomorrow

... here -, my worried eyes on the badly maintained bicycle path running paralel to the tramlines and my part of the road tomorrow cycling further east.<br><br>Looking at what looks like a very ancient Gdansk it is hard to believe that over 90 percent of the city got turned into rumble by the Nazies with the Polish building it all up again using the rumbles for building material and kicking the originally Prussian-German Inhabitants out ...

... but apperantly at 330 it is CLOSED! I DID find a Greek restaurant and bought some Ouzo! Mmmmmmmmmmm!!! And I went for "dinner" and had yessss... Piergies!!!! Mmmmm and a beer- they did NOT have VODKA!!! Can you believe that!!!!! So I did bvuy a small bottle of vodka on my way back to the hostel! So tomorrow is going to be the biggest *****- I have to leave here to Poznan at 7:31- thats my tarin and I then go Poznan to Berlin Berlin to Bremen Bremen to ...

... who headed the Solidarity movement and was later president of Poland. I remember seeing the riots on TV. It was the start of the fall of Russian control, including the fall of the Berlin Wall - very historical place. We headed back to the ship and sailed for Denmark. The Polish people are very proud and very distrustful of Russia. They are trying very hard to become and remain a free country. Joining the EU has helped them a lot ...

... old lady came up, gestured at Mary's face, and said something in Polish. We kept saying that we don't speak Polish and she kept repeating the same words. We left confused and could only guess that she said "Dirty girl, VERY dirty girl!" We popped into the St. Nicholas church - one of the few churches in Gdansk NOT destroyed in WWII. Mary saw a confessional and wanted to confess her sins, telling me "This ...

... who knew vikingbeard). He was cool and funny though. We ate a bit and drank by evening and talk. It's been cool and finally I felt asleep quite tired. ----------- November 30 I went out only by midday, to have a long walk along the harbour, taking pictures of the graffiti and reaching the old town by nearly dusk. So it was a refreshing day and I came back with the tram and used the computer. Usually there was suppose to be a HCmeeting but I didnt hear any news about it, I ...