Hotel Posejdon Gdansk

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

... 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 ...

... Usually you can get a taster, several of their beers in small glasses. The bartender does not see us. I walk to the other end of the bar. Neither one of us is seen. Hubby waves his arms and finally attracts notice and gets his beer. <br><br> Hotel bar and café. You can sit and use the internet. There are menus where you can get small snacks or expensive wines and beers ...

... old prison and torture cells but while the sign outside shows lots of things to see inside, there was no entrance gate or ticket seller.<br><br> As we are walking into the old town on the pedestrian area, a young tourist guide approaches us. She gives tours in an electric car for ½ hour, an hour, or 1 ½ hour which includes going up to an overlook of the city. As I always go UP, it ...

... br><br>Since I accidentally stumbled upon where WWI started in Sarajevo I couldn't leave Gdansk without standing where WWII began. I'll be honest, I accidentally stumbled upon the fact that WWII started in Gdansk, too. Flipping through some brochure about the touristical delights of Gdansk opened my eyes to the fact that this city was just as important to WWII as it was to ending Communism. Who knew!!?? Well, my dad did obviously so these pics of ...

... we checked into the hotel, I had about an hour before we met for dinner, so I went for a run along the edge of the Gdansk shipyards.  It was pretty old and dilapidated.  In fact, it looked really run down, but we will get a look at it later this weekend before we head back to Warsaw.   <br><br>Went to dinner again with the entire Fulbright group at a nice place in the old town part of Gdansk.  This town has more character ...

... there was a lot of the heavy, depressing Russian influence with their huge ugly multi-storied apartment complexes made out of concrete. If they wanted to spread their architecture, why couldn't they have picked their beautiful buildings, like in St. Petersburg? It would be interesting to see Poland in another 10 years or so if they are able to remain free and prosper. We returned to the ship and are off to Ronne, Bornholm, <br>Denmark.<br>

Well we had a bit of a nightmare here deciding on a campsite, as the one we had planned to stay at just seemed a little too far from the centre, so we looked on our map &amp; noticed more central ones! Off to the centre we headed - what a nightmare for traffic, and then could we find any of these campsites, could we heck!! In the end we decided to stay at a campsite in Sopot, just outside Gdansk with a train station nearby as we didn't fancy taking the bike ...

... man, has a costume and mask of the scream character just racking in the money. You would not believe how many young women just have to get their picture with this guy! Maybe, when I get to Transylvania, I can give this a whack. Sunday morning, I went with Marta to the old town where she set up to do some singing and playing. While she was playing, I noticed two men working together, one standing off while the ...