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evaanna Says: The marina at Jastarnia has a club and some facilities for individual sailors. It is just across the small bay from the fishing port and well-worth exploring if you like watching the boats and meeting interesting people. A new pier for yachts has recently been launched. Last...
evaanna Says: The church in Jastarnia rises above the peninsula - its greenish tower is visible from both the sea and the bay. It is situated in the oldest part of Jastarnia with narrow streets and some traditional low cottages. Already the door with its interesting maritime brass...
evaanna Says: Muzeum Pod Strzecha - The Thatched Museum - is owned by Juliusz Struck, a local man, who will show you around his museum. The collection includes all kinds of objects connected with fishing and with the past life of the people on the peninsula. The collector will tell you...
The Fishing Harbour at Jastarnia
evaanna Says: Jastarnia has its own fishing harbour, which supplies the town and its restaurants with fresh fish. If you go there at the right time, you may buy some fish straight from the fishing boat. Some of the fish is exported abroad and you can sometimes see enormous foreign lorries...
evaanna Says: The old fisherman's cottage at Jastarnia dates from 1881 and is now a museum. It displays a collection of all the paraphernalia of fishermen's everyday life on the Hel Peninsula in the 19th century and earlier. I found a child's primer in the Kashubian language especially...
evaanna Says: The lighthouse at Jastarnia is visible from the distance of 18.5 km when you are at sea but locating it when you are in town is not that easy. You may pass it on your way to the beach and not even notice it as it is hidden in the forest. The 13.3 m high lighthouse was built...
Cafe Marta: Open all year round!
evaanna Says: Contrary to what its name says, the place is not just a cafe. We discovered it in April this year, looking for somewhere to have our dinner and already losing hope that anything would be open in Jastarnia at this time of year. In fact, it seems to be one of only two...
Checz Rybacka - A Fisherman's Cottage: Everything Kashubian
evaanna Says: This is another restaurant in Jastarnia open all year round. It is situated in the centre of the town and has lots of seats outdoors so it is good for people watching. However, as it was still quite cold in April, we chose to sit inside both the times we visited the place....
evaanna Says: You may notice that the streets in Jastarnia have dual names, with differences even in the alphabets used. One of the names is in Polish of course while the other is in Kashubian, the language of the autochthonous population of Pomerania, the Kashubs. The introduction of the...
evaanna Says: Just about 2 km west of Jastarnia you will see four concrete bunkers, which were constructed here before the war in preparation for the defence of the Hel Peninsula from an attack from the sea. Actually, the attack never came - any sea battles took place near the tip of the...
evaanna Says: On our visit to Jastarnia this year we thought we would look for some old fisherman's cottages as they seem to be disappearing from the place at a terrifying speed. Some houses we knew are no longer there and their inhabitants, some of whom we used to know, no longer...
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The lighthouse at Jastarnia is visible from the distance of 18.5 km when you are at sea but locating it when you are in town is not that easy. You may pass it...
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