Zajazd Pod Olivk Gdansk

... sea shells although there are precious little offerings in this area. A few families have their children stripped to the diapers and the young toddlers play in the sand and want to get buried like big brother. There are sailboats on the horizon and an occasional wind surfer but not a lot of wind today so they are moving quite slowly through the waves. An eyrar of swans guard the shore in one area ...

... same chocolate. Oh heaven. This morning we headed directly to this café to check it out and to share with my hubby what a wonderful delicious thing this is. <br><br> While the Polish drink is not quite as decadent as that which I had in Croatia, it comes with so many more choices! You could get chocolate with coffee, with raspberries, with whiskey, Contreau, orange ...

... for pushiness. Forty minutes in the showroom without a single salesman approaching us. As there are many car dealerships, we are ready to leave when someone finally sees us and comes over to see if we want to buy a car. We have already been sitting in cars and kicking tires just to see if they notice us. He says, just saw you walk in the door. A line definitely or ...

... know Mexican but it was very good. <br><br> Finally we got into Arthur&#8217;s Court or Artus Court which was a gentlemen&#8217;s club basically. It was inspired by the Knights of the Round Table so a lot of the decorations were related to that era but also plenty of hanging ship models as most of the men of that time made their money through shipping. It was quite an interesting place ...

... 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

... 8217;s forces invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.   While it was not ground forces coming to Gdansk, the German navy attacked and shelled a Polish naval outpost and garrison here in Gdansk from the sea.  Danzig, as the Germans called Gdansk, was a naval base and port controlled by the Germans throughout WWII.<br><br>We stayed at the Scandic Hotel across the street from the Gdansk train station and less than two blocks from the famous ...

... who headed the Solidarity movement and was later president of Poland. I remember seeing the riots on TV. It was the start of the fall of Russian control, including the fall of the Berlin Wall - very historical place. We headed back to the ship and sailed for Denmark. The Polish people are very proud and very distrustful of Russia. They are trying very hard to become and remain a free country. Joining the EU has helped them a lot ...

... arrest. Martial law laster for two years. But there were cracks in the communist government in Poland and within a few years of course, the Soviet Union was crumbling. Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and he went on to become Poland's first president. He was president from 1990 to 1995. According to things I have read he made some George W. Bush-like blunders and near the end of his term he appointed people like his chauffeur and his doubles tennis partner to positions in ...

... a 5 heures a la mais', deux zombies dans le train :) dont un qui dit au revoir a des polonais en sortant et qui decouvre qu'il y a un trou entre le quai et le train... Un coccyx de singe en moins :D Derniere petite soiree a Gdansk au Rock Cafe ou la musique etait super jusqu'a ce qu'il commence a passer les gros tubes polonais ... Et pas une minute de sommeil avant de rentrer dans le train qui nous embarque pour la frontiere polono-lithuanienne.

... been hoping to spend lots of time in Poland for some reason, and now I feel like I've gotten so much more out of it than I would have otherwise. Leaving Prague was hard, but I made it to Krakow, then Wroclaw, where my friends live. Because they are uber-tourists, we saw everything worth seeing in the city of 600,000 in a couple of days, including Japanese gardens, lots of churches, and the "dark side of Wroclaw" (pronounced VRO-swav ...