Hotel Rezydencja Bardo Gdynia

... sea shells although there are precious little offerings in this area. A few families have their children stripped to the diapers and the young toddlers play in the sand and want to get buried like big brother. There are sailboats on the horizon and an occasional wind surfer but not a lot of wind today so they are moving quite slowly through the waves. An eyrar of swans guard the shore in one area ...

... came very thick, almost as thick as chocolate pudding. I tasted hers and it was like chocolate pudding! As the drink cooled, it got thicker and thicker. They bring a spoon along with it so that you can finish it to the bottom of the glass. Yum!

Yesterday we are walking up the square in Sopot, Poland and I notice people sitting in a café with cups of what looks like ...

... just don’t care anymore? Or are we truly sometimes invisible? Is anyone else invisible too? As we get older, do we get more invisible? If this is true, why can’t I be invisible and walk onto airplanes and get free rides? Why can’t I be invisible when I want to be? What does the future look like if we slowly fade away to invisibility and no one sees us at all?

... away from the main railway station, and stretches between the main road of Gdańsk and the river Motława. The most central point of the Old Town is a pedestrian precinct called Długi Targ (literally: 'a long market'). Here you can find a multitude of quite rare houses that surround a statue of Neptune. A few picturesque cobbled streets lead to the river, and should you follow any of them you'll find ...

... commercial port and worked out much better anyway, although it is in a very depressed part of town. It rained most of the night but without the gale force winds so we got some sleep. It was either that, or the
combination of no sleep last night and a bottle of wine with dinner.

Our tour today was supposed to involve a bus tour with various stops and walking, but since it was raining cats and dogs we drove by most of the ...

I arrived in Gdynia, just outside of Gdansk, by train from Krakow and have met Ola, a couchsurfing member, www.couchsurfing.com were I will be staying the next couple of days. Ola's a single mom raising a son and daughter and simply loves meeting people from all over the world. She also has two vicious, tear the meat off of you dogs, to keep me on my ...

... which the Bride then had to collect.

Then it was "All aboard" the train again back to the Jurata Hotel for the reception.

I suppose it was getting on for 5:30 when the reception started, and we ate copious amounts of food, gallons of vodka, and danced our feet off. In between there were the speeches and wedding cake, etc.,

The staff just kept bringing more food, clearing away dirty plates, etc., and then at about midnight they brought in a couple of roast turkeys ...

... that was now coming to a close. That is when something happened that one would never expect in a calm city on the Baltic coast of Poland. An elderly, but large, woman apprached the bench we were sitting on and was shuffling about while Mike and I were talking. I did not pay her much attention as I was trying to get a good shot of the incoming train (see the photo album). After I popped off a few shots I ...

... because it's the only language they both know. It's also widely amusing to hear an american tell a person of the country that we are in 'how it is' in america. More than half the time I would completely disagree with what the american had just said. Whenever one finds out that I am from America, 95% of the time the next question is , 'What do you think of Bush?'. It's amazing how often I'm asked that question. American politics are ...

... obwohl sie es manchmal echt gut meinten, aber mein polnisch richt einfach nicht, um alles hier genau zu ueberblicken. So stand ich dann eben eine stunde an der absoluten autobahn, ein echt gut ausgebautes stueck, eine stunde lang. Und nach einer stunde an einer neuen stelle, 70 kilometer weiter, und einign kilometern fussmarsch, stiegen zwei maedchen aus einem auto. sie stellten sich aus fairness extra ...