Villa Angela Gdansk

... determined to just spend a lazy day by the seashore.<br><br> 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.

... next to me if they want anything. They ask what they can get for whatever amount of change they have in the local currency. She sells them a snack and moves on down the aisle to the next row. The ladies have to poke her to get her to come back and give me a drink.<br><br> Into the furniture store. In the market for a new bed. That's expensive and one would think the ...

... is a piece of green amber. Hubby found an amber elephant which was a bit pricier than he desired but he hardly ever finds anything for a souvenir so it is going home with us.<br><br> Wandering and wandering back around the town, through the market to pick up some food for the train trip on Saturday and back to Sopot and the hotel. Tomorrow it will definitely be ocean viewing and pier walking.

... ice cream in the morning, a nice ice cream soft serve or a regular cone. Later in the morning though the gofry places started opening up. A waffle all by itself is rather inexpensive, about $1. But you have to add the whipped cream and fruit to make it especially delicious. Gonna have another one tomorrow

Gdansk was a pleasant surprise, expecting a gritty harbour town, reknowned for steel manufacture and to a certain extent it is, however the old town was completely enchanting and could have easily been mistaken for an Austrian city, with all the baroque ornate detailings, it's faded pastels and (yet again) more symmetry.<br> <br><br ...

... beer! Sad to leave Colin and his rather shell shocked colleagues we ambled down the main street in the evening sun. Couples passed by hand in hand sucking on ice creams, while families out for an evening walk struggled to control their excitable children. The highlight was a man on a bike being towed by 2 Alsatians cutting a path through pedestrians. Content with our evenings exercise we found the nice Pub Duszek, tatty interior with strange paraphernalia on the walls including ...

... commercial port and worked out much better anyway, although it is in a very depressed part of town. It rained most of the night but without the gale force winds so we got some sleep. It was either that, or the <br>combination of no sleep last night and a bottle of wine with dinner. <br><br>Our tour today was supposed to involve a bus tour with various stops and walking, but since it was raining cats and dogs we drove by most of the ...

... do some pictures. I met with Lukas and for few hours I talked with young polish kids in English, as best as I could. Of course without knowing at all what to talk about. :S Anyhow it was a funny experience. After the class, Lukas called Anya who came to pick us and we were suppose to go to eat at his place after we visited a friend. But it happened that he forgot his key.. hehe So he couldn't cook his vegan meal. He came with us to Anya and would sleep there for the night. So ...

... you'll have to wait on what we find. We stay in student dorms that are rented out in the summers. Very cheap, and usually very well kept. Better than the hostels as they have 10pm curfews and large dorm rooms. Ours is a room for 3 people and just the 2 of us is about $14 CDN. One final word... Riding the trams in Poland requires that you purchase a ticket for yourself as well as your bag if it's too large. Nothing defines large ...