Hotel Kuracyjny Spa & Wellness Gdynia

... 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.

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 ...

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These are small examples. These things happen to us all the time. We aren’t bad looking people, we aren’t dressed shabbily, we don’t sit in the corner in the dark, and yet we can be ignored in the best to the worst of places that we visit, and in whatever country we visit. Has service become so bad that service staff and wait people and ...

Gdańsk, a city symbolically associated with the outburst of WWII and the beginning of the fall of communism in Europe, is a popular holiday and tourists destination in this part of the world. It is considered to be the capital of a metropolis called 3miasto (3city), and has got one of the biggest harbours in Poland.

The main tourist attraction is, undoubtedly, the Old Town. It is located just a zebra ...

Today we were supposed to dock at Gdansk, Poland but the sea was too rough so we had to go up the coast about 10 miles and dock at Gdynia. At Gdansk, a river empties into the sea and that is where the port is. It had been raining so much that the water coming from the river would not allow us to enter. The entry to the port was very narrow, no place to turn the ship around, and we were going to have to back in anyway. Gdynia was the ...

... A Polish dessert, similar to doughnuts and homemade gingerbread. Jakub's parents were both Lithuanian, who had moved to Gdansk in the 1970s. His mother gave us several icebreakers to use when meeting the Lithuanians. She also recommended small towns which were worth the visit. (This is why we stop in many places in Lithuania.) We exchanged email and phone numbers, and departed back to Gdansk. We spent the late evening out in Gdansk, before retreating to bed at midnight.

... the vows were exchanged in English. Luckily there wasn't a long sermon, and the Communion was the quickest I've ever seen.

As I sat through the Polish-only part of the service I reflected that the previous Saturday I'd been in Synagogue for Theodora's Kabbala Torah and had had a similar feeling during the Hebrew portion!

At the end of the ceremony Glenn and Basia were showered with rice on the doorstep of the Church and the guests also threw small change under their ...

Let me set the scene for you a bit. Mike and I are weary from a very full day of sightseeing and a very busy weekend. We are in sitting in the train station on the platform we believe our train will be arriving. We are a little cold, a little wet, very tired, and very relieved that we found a bench on which we could rest while waiting for our train. Mike and I chatted away, recounting our stories from the ...

... american at the hostel last week (although from the story he was the rude one), and went farther to say that a lot of people don't like americans. I was laughing inside because he had no idea he was sitting right next to an american, because I hadn't said a word. People do know english though, and I find it interesting time and time again to see a Polish person or a german person or a french person conversing with one another in ...

Czesc an alle, ich bin in Danzig! Das loest wirklich Jubel aus bei mir, denn gestern haette ich das noch nicht gedacht, nicht immer. Nach 5 stunden hatte ich von den 300 kilometern etwa die haelfte geschafft... Mich hatten fahrer, die mich ueberhaupt mal mitgenommen hatten, natuerlich nur die aeltesten karren, die schnellen haetten an den schnellstrassen ja nie bremsen koennen, wirklich an den unmoeglichsten stellen ...