Hotel Wolne Miasto 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.

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 ...

... 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 ...

... away. My voice is low so possibly she didn’t hear. She returns in 20 minutes (I know the time because a timer was counting down my internet time) I order one of the wines. It comes 30 minutes later. Had I not had a lot of internet business we would have been long gone. She could have drunk the wine herself then.

Car dealership, a used car dealership ...

... The top floor had some paintings that were enjoyable. The next floors had furniture from the period including some wonderful old ceramic tile stoves from floor to ceiling. We even got into the kitchen. Usually you don’t get to see the kitchen.

Back on track to go get baked potatoes. I had a Mexican and hubby had a cheese. They were quite tasty. Not exactly Mexican like ...

... 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’t find a single place open in the morning that was serving gofry. Funnily enough, I could find places to ...

... as this port city has long been a part of German empires over the century, and many of the people here consider their ancestry or heritage to be connected to Germany.  It did suffer damage from the Soviet army in the last months of World War II in the spring of 1945 as the Soviets shelled it heavily to dislodge the Germans.  What I did not know until today was that the Second World War actually started here in Gdansk, Poland when ...

... the bus even though it was another hour and a half til we left. I'd gladly send the rain to California where we really need it because I am sick of it here. During the bus drive back to the ship, we passed the Solidarity Monument, the memorial
to the 44 dock workers who died in the workers riot against the Russian
communist regime. We also passed the home of Lech Wolinska (I don't know how to spell his name) He was the dock ...

... but it caused a welling of support for the shipyard workers and he then became the face and voice of the workers. He was one of the people who negotiated with the government for a list of conditions and concessions. As I said within 3 months, Solidarity had 10 million members in Poland. The communist government cracked down on the Solidarity movement a few months after the negotiations with the Solidarity leaders and instituted martial law, putting the leaders of Solidarity under ...

... on rentre bredouille. Deuxieme soiree beaucoup mieux : on decouvre que ya une ville juste a cote de Gdansk mais beaucoup mieux pour sortir, Sopot. Ca ressemble a St Trop en pologne, on tourne quand meme pour trouver un bar et finalement on se pose dans un club ou on met 3 minutes avant qu un Polonais nous propose de gouter sa beuh d'Amsterdam dehors. Mauvaise idee, elle nous a retourne et on a passe la soiree a faire n'imp dans le Paradox ...

My friends, for the last few days I have been in Poland staying with some friends I made in Prague. Prague was hard to leave because it was so beautiful, and just before I caught a train I passed J.J. Murphy's Irish Pub, which naturally I was curious about. It has been a wonderful time in Poland though, partly because I have interpreters and partly because I have some great new friends to show me around, shelter me, talk with, and so on. I ...