Szydlowski Hotel Gdansk

... S. Embassy might be close enough to sign documents.<br><br> So out into the sun and down to the pier. The pier here is quite famous. It is 500 meters long and has had a checkered history. It survived two World Wars and also survived misguided intentions to just pull it all down. Now it is being revived again with a marina scheduled to open next to it in a couple of years. For now, locals and tourists ...

... 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.

... Usually you can get a taster, several of their beers in small glasses. The bartender does not see us. I walk to the other end of the bar. Neither one of us is seen. Hubby waves his arms and finally attracts notice and gets his beer. <br><br> Hotel bar and café. You can sit and use the internet. There are menus where you can get small snacks or expensive wines and beers ...

... 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&#8217;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 ...

We have observed a phenomenon across several countries now. Doughnuts are not breakfast food any more in much of Asia. We're used to Dunkin&#8217; Donuts being open by 6:30 or 7 in the morning so you can stop on your way to work and pick up coffee and doughnuts, either just for yourself or for everyone. If ...

Gdansk, Poland &#8211; Sunday, June 28, 2009<br><br>Sunday night here in Gdansk, a very interesting town on the Baltic Sea in the north of Poland.  We arrived here yesterday afternoon after a long day on the bus from Warsaw, with a stop at Malbork Castle, about 60 kilometers south of here.  Poland's highways are still being modernized from the Soviet era; most people take the trains south to Warsaw.  The highway is nothing like our ...

... entrances to the city long ago and marks the beginning of a restored area of buildings and shops. It would have been a very nice place to walk around, shop, look at buildings and get a bite to eat except that it is all outdoors and it was pouring rain. Our guide had a very irritating voice and style of speaking. As soon as we got off the bus we, along with half the bus, ditched her and just walked around <br>on our own. We found a ...

... Well, it all started in Gdansk at the Shipyards during a strike by the shipyard workers in 1980. They were able to get the government at the time to make concessions which no other group had been able to do in any part of the Soviet Union. Solidarity started off as a union of the shipyard workers but quickly spread throughout Poland and within 3 months of Solidarity beginning it has more than 10 million members in the country. A man named Lech Walesa is the face of Solidarity but it was ...

Dans l'hotel, la chance continue, un couple vient nous parle en francais et il se trouve que c'est une lyonnaise et un polonais. En plus, ils vont a Gdansk le lendemain matin donc on trouve deja quelqu un qui nous emmene. Tout le monde se bat pour nour nous conduire :) Apres un petit dej offert par les allemands, on arrive devant le parking pour rentrer dans une mercedes CLK interieur cuir ... Un peu serre mais ils sont bien cool et la maman d ...

... night out with Madzik...again. Met her from work, sat at bar in Absinthe then in comfy seats, while I was in the toilets 2 blokes joined us. Madzik was getting on really well with one of them, although he was an ******** with me. His mate left so I went and sat outside to leave them to it. I left before they did and couldn't find toilet in hostel with inevitable results. Dreamt ...