Kamienica Goldwasser Gdansk

... to spend time walking along it and sitting on the benches and taking in some sun. it’s just a lovely pier. There is a side pier that is gone and only the pilings are left. Cormorants and seagulls and mallard ducks make this their resting place as they dry their wings and contemplate feathers before jumping in the water again for another snack of fish. A few brave men jump in the water 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 ...

... A glass of wine is $20 so you would think you would like to sell some. Beers are $15 each. One evening here, no one comes. Next evening here, we are asked within 5 minutes but we don’t want anything tonight. Next evening, it takes 10 minutes before we are asked if we want a drink. Hubby gets a beer. 10 minutes later his beer comes. I say I would like a drink but she ...

... gave us information that we had not had yesterday and showed us some new areas that we had missed. It was a good little tour.

She had told us a good place to eat baked potatoes too. We headed for that. On the way though we passed the Uphagen House which has furniture from the period when it was a viable house. It was open so we ducked into it and got a free ride with our tourist ...

... 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 ...

... bakery and Don got an eclair, I got something that tasted like pizza bread with pizza sauce and cheese and they were very good. We checked out the crystal - beautiful, but I have no way to get it home. Poland is famous for its crystal and art glass. After about an hour or so of that we were done with being wet, my hair was soaked because I couldn't keep it inside my hood, my feet were soaked, and I was soaked. We headed back ...

... 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 ...