Hotel Atrium Szczecin

The Plan today was to take the train from Berlin to Gdansk, Poland. I had carefully researched different routes and times. In the end, I decided it would be easiest for us with our entire luggage and such to make as few transfers as possible even though it meant leaving a little earlier than I would have liked. SO, promptly at 7:59, we are waiting for our train at Berlin's Hauptbahnhof. Wow, last ...

... idea of how well traveled we would sound if we could say we had driven to Russia. The north borders a small part of Russia left over from the communist block, they probably use it as a military area to keep a watch on Europe, well thats what we think as we found out first hand the Polish army are keeping a close eye on the border. I'm not sure what we were expecting, maybe snow and border men marching in big fury hats! A few hundred meters from the end of the road we were stopped by ...

... courtyard), none of us were too keen on walking right behind him so there was about five meters of empty space between the man and the rest of our group. Bryan and I were at the front of the group and both turned to look at each other and said "**** that" in unison when we saw the man start j-walking across the street in the direction of one of these alleys that led to a courtyard that not only looked significantly more rundown than the next, but also had a group ...

... 1085;и до Москв 99;, ни до Минск 72;... пришл 86;сь ехать в Калин 80;нград!

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From Szczecin we planned to go home, but... visa expires, and tickets to Moscow or Minsk was not... we went to Kaliningrad!

... 1079;а день до отъез 76;а... неуда 95;ница)))
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We spent several days in Rostock... We went to the sea, walking, cycling, and everything would be good, but I fell and injured knee the day before departure... I am a failure)))

... t taste half bad either. Laryssa's cousins took us around the city to the major sight seeing destinations, the National Museum, the library, the port, etc. We stopped in a local watering hole for some beer and to escape the rain where I had a pint of Szczecin's home brew, Bosman. The beer was pretty good, but unfortunately Laryssa's cousins aren't big on the alcohol drinking and we did not stay in the bar for long. While walking through ...

Day 3 Saturday morning, I just wanted to sleep longer to recover from the long trip from Sao Paulo but I had to wake up early to take the train to Sczecin, Poland to visit my cousin Igor who is living there at the moment. No problems getting to Gesundbrunnen train station in Berlin and no problems getting to Sczecin either. Travel east now is a piece of cake after the EU enlargement in 2004. Once in Sczecin I didn't have any kind of hassle as they were already waiting for me ...

's Ochtends hebben we met Kinga een gezonde wandeling gemaakt door de bossen ten noorden van Gdansk. Ze leeft in een residentiële wijk, in één van die grijze woonblokken die we allemaal kennen uit de oude documentaires van tijdens de Koude Oorlog, maar op nauwelijks 5 minuten van haar huis beginnen de bossen. En als je uit het bos komt, sta je plots midden in de duinen en een eindje daarachter de Baltische Zee. Het was ...

In the morning Kinga took us for a healthy walk through the woods north of Gdansk. She lives in a residential area, in one of those grey block of flats which you may remember from the old documentaries during the Cold War, but the forest starts only 5 minutes from her house. And when we left the forest, we were in the middle of dunes and then the Baltic Sea ! Such a surprise, and it was beautiful. I took 10 copies ...

A daytrain trip to the Polan countryside. A round up of friends and other guests to the wedding. Installed us in the castle, at Maiwecko. Had a few beers. Got to see the area, the naighbouring town. Had a few beers Played some tennis. Had a few beers. Rowed on the lake Had some beers. And so on. Then there was the wedding. Bente was beautiful and Kjetil stylish. Party, drinks, dinner and speeches. Lovelly. Great time. Castle weddings rule !