Hotel Bartan 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 ...

... same chocolate. Oh heaven. This morning we headed directly to this café to check it out and to share with my hubby what a wonderful delicious thing this is. <br><br> While the Polish drink is not quite as decadent as that which I had in Croatia, it comes with so many more choices! You could get chocolate with coffee, with raspberries, with whiskey, Contreau, orange ...

... staff comes to his table immediately. We signal that we are ready to order. We are not seen. We leave.<br><br> A jewelry store, an expensive jewelry store. I&#8217;ve gotten dressed up for the occasion, knowing that sometimes I seem to be invisible to clerks. My thought is that they will see I have money and come forward to sell me something. It doesn&#8217;t happen ...

... like a good deal plus we had been looking for a guide yesterday and just couldn't find any in English. We hope into her little electric golf cart vehicle and she plays an explanation of each of the historical buildings from mpg files on her cell phone. Sure can&#8217;t get my cell phone to do anything like that. We had already seen a lot of the things she took us around to see but she ...

... Gofry (pronounced Gofree, I think) are waffles in Poland. We had seen several restaurants yesterday serving them in the early evening. Mistakenly I wanted some for breakfast. Not to be. Couldn&#8217;t find a single place open in the morning that was serving gofry. Funnily enough, I could find places to ...

... in old style apartment block (where everything is small, symmetrical with loads of hidden storage space - to hide all the dissidents??). The room had been decorated in what can only be described as kitch (it was truely a brilliant site!) but nonetheless she was very welcoming and brave to allow strangers into her place.<br><br> <br ...

... Good for stomach...medicinal!" It turned out later he had meant traditional not medicinal! Feeling slightly more robust after a few of these we said our goodbyes vowing to return later. Another important past-time when I visit other cities is to find the local pool hall, in this case we were rewarded by finding a small place on Jarg Rybry which charged only Z15 for 1 hours play. I won the match 3-2 in a tournament that lived up to the billing as 'amateur'. A jovial Polish guy on ...

... entrances to the city long ago and marks the beginning of a restored area of buildings and shops. It would have been a very nice place to walk around, shop, look at buildings and get a bite to eat except that it is all outdoors and it was pouring rain. Our guide had a very irritating voice and style of speaking. As soon as we got off the bus we, along with half the bus, ditched her and just walked around <br>on our own. We found a ...

... cooked us an improvised meal there and we talked late before sleeping. A pretty cool guy who has is way in every helping sector in town. Great! ----------- November 28 I woke up by late morning and finally didn't feel to get out and been lazy most of the day. I used the Internet by the afternoon and that until Anya came back. Its only then that I went out to walk in town in direction of the meeting point I would have where Lukas was meeting a bunch of people to go for a Poi ...

... we would still have to either pay the fine or he would take us to the police. We looked at him and said fine, take us to the police. The look on his face was worth buying a digital camera just to play that moment over and over. He told us OK next time you better buy a ticket for the bag and left. We've since found out that there has been a lot of bribery on board and he was looking for a payoff. Life in Poland.... Mano and Karen