Lezno Palace (Airport) Gdansk

... determined to just spend a lazy day by the seashore.

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 ...

... milk or dark, white chocolate, and on and on. Oh the menu made one drool. My husband got a classic. I went for the white chocolate with raspberries. Deliciously decadent. How do these people manage to go to work each day? Just sit in the café and have one delightful flavor of chocolate after another. Swiss Miss has been relegated to the back pantry, possibly forever.

... to see if we want to buy. We leave.

A restaurant, a café, someplace where it is necessary to be served. I ask for a menu from a waiter so they will know we are there. We sit close to the door. The waiter comes and serves the table next to us then walks past us back into the restaurant. Next the waiter comes and serves the table across from us and then gets ...

... like a good deal plus we had been looking for a guide yesterday and just couldn't find any in English. We hope into her little electric golf cart vehicle and she plays an explanation of each of the historical buildings from mpg files on her cell phone. Sure can’t get my cell phone to do anything like that. We had already seen a lot of the things she took us around to see but she ...

... come along but unfortunately, the tour was just in German so we might have seen the sights but wouldn’t have understood anything. Not as much fun. Been there and done that already in other German speaking towns.

Had some pierogi for lunch. It was good but very reminiscent of Korean dumplings. Continued following the map and book to get to the main tourist ...

... USB flash drives nor would the hostel let me hook my computer. My first entries to my blog must wait. My purpose in staying in hostel's is primarily to be social. Meet people, get to know different cultures and to have people to tourist and/or travel with.

The town is 5 minutes away. I hang out with a guy from Sweden who checks in at the same time. The historic area of Gdansk is very pretty with many buildings from the 1600s.

I ...

... and just saw them from the bus or stopped just long enough to get off, snap a shot and get back on. We sat in the front of the bus and the window kept leaking on me so I was soaked before we even started. We stopped at the Oliwa Cathedral, built in the 13th century and on the grounds of an old monastery. It has a huge organ and two smaller ones, consisting of 7,876 tin and wood pipes which can imitate the sounds of different musical ...

... cheese filling. Then there was the Polish sausage. Kielbasa as they call it here is grilled and then served up usually with grilled potatoes or the like. Delicious. There is something about food at festivals that makes it taste that much better. Eating the food here in Poland makes me realize how much of the food we get in Canada (but maybe it's just in parts like Alberta) is influenced by the Polish immigrants who came over. Pierogis, Polish sausage, coleslaw, you name it. One thing ...

... connection to Judaism to even own one? Those were questions I didn't get answered since as the guest I didn't want to make a scene at the party. It was a very strange incident that made me hyper-aware of being an outsider, in a way other than just speaking another language. In a country where so much of the tourism (even for non-Jews) is focused on the Holocaust and the Jewish communities of the past, I wasn't expecting to be put in a place of being ...

... attitude, as people are very nice but very proper, no one crosses against the light, there is a lot of camo and army haircuts. It is a rather aggressive culture, but also quick to be famously hospitable. Easygoing, but firm on deadlines and whatnot. So those are some notes on Poland so far, hope they're interesting in the least bit. I'm off to the sea now, and will write again soon when I post photos, unless the machine notifies people for me.