Grand Hotel Sopot Managed By Sofitel - Already Opened

... cold now from being out of the sun. As we get closer to town, we pass a man selling smoked barbequed cheese. It is delicious. What a treat. We thought at first that it was covered in something but it is nothing but the cheese. It is so fresh that it squeaks when we chew it.

Back to the hotel to get our jackets before venturing out for dinner and an evening promenade. What a lovely easy place.

... milk or dark, white chocolate, and on and on. Oh the menu made one drool. My husband got a classic. I went for the white chocolate with raspberries. Deliciously decadent. How do these people manage to go to work each day? Just sit in the café and have one delightful flavor of chocolate after another. Swiss Miss has been relegated to the back pantry, possibly forever.

... just don’t care anymore? Or are we truly sometimes invisible? Is anyone else invisible too? As we get older, do we get more invisible? If this is true, why can’t I be invisible and walk onto airplanes and get free rides? Why can’t I be invisible when I want to be? What does the future look like if we slowly fade away to invisibility and no one sees us at all?

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 ...

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’ 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 ...

... precious masterpieces of the folklore of the place.

One of these streets is famous for amber. Now, amber is a must-have souvenir from Gdańsk, and you can find countless stalls full of jewellery in virtually any district of the city. Another old town street is known for its market; people sell here everything that is old: old coins, old kerosene lamps, old stationary telephones, old postcards, pictures ...

Gdansk is more about the feel of walking around, going back in time, than about specific places (eg, Berlin's museums). After a half day, I go to Sopot, the beach town. It is packed with 10x the people in Gdansk. Mostly Polish and German tourists. Lots of cafes. I am hoping to work on a base tan. It is way too cold with a few people on the beach, generally wearing jackets. I want to experience some polish food so I search for a billboard that has Polish specialties. I stop at one that has ...

... bakery and Don got an eclair, I got something that tasted like pizza bread with pizza sauce and cheese and they were very good. We checked out the crystal - beautiful, but I have no way to get it home. Poland is famous for its crystal and art glass. After about an hour or so of that we were done with being wet, my hair was soaked because I couldn't keep it inside my hood, my feet were soaked, and I was soaked. We headed back ...

**** OK OK, I'm guilty for not adding in something about how I felt this morning. I have been getting a fair rap from the other 3 so I best put something in. I woke up about 6AM with a splitting headache and churning stomach, It might have been to do with the alcohol from the night before, this can't be confirmed or denied. However, I could also feel a terrible pain in my backside. What was this pain? What had I done? I certainly didn't ...