Hotel Renusz Gdansk

... determined to just spend a lazy day by the seashore.<br><br> The weather today is great. Not too cold if you are in the sun. We checked our email messages last night and discovered that we might have purchased a house in Florida, if we can get all the paperwork and such done long distance. As we have done this before, shouldn't be a problem. Just getting all our ducks in a row and going to whatever ...

... 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 ...

... talk to each other. A customer enters after me, another customer enters. Both are scooped up by clerks and are taken to the section of jewelry in which they express an interest. I am ignored. I go to another store where it only takes 10 minutes standing by a clerk to get noticed and buy my jewelry.<br><br> A brewery where hubby likes to sample the micro brews made ...

... is a piece of green amber. Hubby found an amber elephant which was a bit pricier than he desired but he hardly ever finds anything for a souvenir so it is going home with us.<br><br> Wandering and wandering back around the town, through the market to pick up some food for the train trip on Saturday and back to Sopot and the hotel. Tomorrow it will definitely be ocean viewing and pier walking.

... are traveling, you stop at a waffle house for breakfast. <br><br> We learned when we were living in Korea that Dunkin&#8217; Donuts never even opened until 10 or 11 and it&#8217;s busiest time of day was afternoon to early evening. Donuts and coffee are the new "tea and cake" in the afternoon snack. <br ...

After Malbork Castle, we headed north to seaside Gdansk. Though we were only there a short time, we were quite taken with the quaint little town. We spent most of our time in the main square and wandering its side streets, with a quick break for gofrey (Polish for gaufre) heaped with yummy toppings. It rained on and off while we were there, but we'd gotten used to it by then.

... voices, and sounds. We were treated to <br>a short musical performance and it was very impressive. They played "Ave Maria" and something from Phantom of the Opera, and another one I didn't recognize. Quite beautiful. I visited the little store they had there and bought a hand-made angel that made me think of my mom and all her collection of angels. Then we traveled to the "Green Gate", which isn't even green. It was one of ...

... Poland in the middle of the night as Vilnius is a fair distance from the Polish border. I was back in Poland, the country where this trip started way back at the beginning of July. This time, however, I was in northern Poland, still near the Baltic Sea. Gdansk is a harbour city with a large shipyard. It played a fairly large role in getting rid of the communists that had been running Poland since the Soviets took it over after World War II. You may have heard of the Solidarity ...

... we declined. We tried Pierogarnia U Dzika instead. Not as fancy as Goldwasser, but I preferred the far more attractive female staff here! Cute, bubbly waitress or cold, rude, expressionless waiter ... who would you choose? Had the Okocim beer - OK. I can't remember for sure, but I might have tried this last year in Krakow. We both ordered pierogi tonight. Afterwards, we were stuffed like two big yellow pierogi!

... seeing drunken Brit couple dancing on the bar. Sunday 20 August Up at 9, showered with broken shower, checked out breakfast but it looked **** so didn't pay 2&euro; for it. Caught train to Malbork to see Teutonic knights headquarters castle. More or less completely rebuilt after WW2 with loads of shrapnel marks all over the old bits, 3 hour guided tour then back to Gdansk for ...