Novotel Marina Gdansk

... town along the bike/walking trail that runs next to the beach.<br><br> As we walk along, we pass some magnificent old houses. Sopot was once and might still be a lovely seaside resort for Poles with money. Some of the other old houses have turned into museums and bed and breakfast places. We pass a "lody" place. We know that this means ice cream so get a soft serve cone. Hubby has a cappuccino as he ...

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

... 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 ...

Back to Gdansk today to see if we can get into some of the museums that we missed yesterday because everything is closing early these days. Tourist season officially must be over but there are still plenty of tourists around the area. We are now almost experts on moving about on the trams so got to the main tourist street quite quickly. The amber museum was still not open. It is housed in ...

... airport. <br><br>I started Europe in Prague with 94 degree temps and it's been hot or warm throughout my journey here. The heat finally broke and some clouds and drizzle rolled in. What a nice change, especially for the amount of walking I do every day. I just start early morning and keep going until bedtime. I love it and can't get enough of looking around all these places. I can go down the same street four times and discover something new every ...

... who teach about medieval history, so I took a bunch of photos and will see what we can do with them when I return.  Also picked up a book outside the castle on Malbork and perhaps our teachers can use it.  There were quite a few student groups going through the castle tour, and many German groups were visiting as well.  We had lunch in the restaurant next to the castle after the tour and then took off for Gdansk.<br><br ...

... that treaty with us (that is ******* off Russia) seems like their own way of showing their stubbornness to Russia. Their country has been repeatedly destroyed by war because they are surrounded by Russia, Germany, and Austria. Gdansk (called Danzig by the Germans) and Warsaw suffered the <br>heaviest bombing during WWII and you can still see the burned out buildings that were never torn down or replaced after all these years ...

... done. A lot of them are also shown. I also saw the reconstruction of the old crane, quite impressive when you think that there were men walking like hamster in this big wheel ! I also went a bit out, first in the hostel where some russian guy proposed us to play a game card...quite similar to the drinking brittish game card. And then in some disco with 3 german guys.

... who seemed very much into "planing our futures" as told told to me from Marta, I had a new friend to hang with for the next few days. Some of the things we did included walking through most of Gdansk old town, going for the day out to the beach, sharing dinners, and even made it to the movies, where we watched Shriek 3, in Polish. "Basking" is really anyway that you can make money entertaining people. One ...

... there, so we walked into an open door peering around to see if this was the place or not and eventually we poke our heads into what looks like a dining room and someone finally asks us who we are. Yes, we had a reservation and we managed to get our rooms just fine after paying the 120 Shlotz total left to pay. A room of six currently only occupied by one other girl, meaning we get bottom bunks. It's been an interestingly lucky day. 12 ...