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 Malbork Castle by Paul2001
The castle is basically divided into two sections called the Middle and High Castle. Both are surrounded by a moat. Both castles are each built up around courtyard. Surrounding each courtyard are a serious of chambers which were used has dining halls, barrack, armories and chapels. Today they are used to exhibit collections of medieval weaponry, popcelain and amber. There is also an interesting recreation of a medieval kitchen. The visiting the whole place is quite time consuming and took me almost the whole day.
The castle is open from 9am to 4pm during the summer and from 9am to 3pm for the rest of the year. It is closed on Mondays. It costs 13zl to enter.
There are hotels in Malbork but like most people, I visited on a daytrip from Gdansk. Leave a Comment Address: ul. StaroscinskaPhone: 055-272-33-64Directions: North of the town of Malbork. About 1km from the train station.
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 Pieskowa Skala castle by Paul2001
The castle museum is open 10am to 3:30pm Tuesday to Friday and until 5:30pm on the weekends. It cost 7zl to enter.
The Pieskowa Skala castle is located in the lovely Ojcow Valley. A hike up and down the valley makes for an excellent daytrip from Krakow. The valley is especially scenic and notable for its limestone pillared rock formations. There are also several ruined castles within the valley to explore. Leave a Comment Directions: The Pieskowa Skala castle is located in the lovely Ojcow Valley at the furthest north end of the valley itself. It is thirty kilometres north of Krakow. I visited by bus and a bit of a hike.
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Przemysl is a town in South-Eastern Poland, a few kilometres from Polish -Ukrainian border crossing in Medyka.It's definitely worth stopping for a while- even only to have a stroll along its streets and have a big (or very big!) portion of delicious ice-cream at Fiore. Leave a Comment
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Debki, about four or five km from Krokowa is my second favourite place in this part of Poland. As we travelled further from Krokowa we discovered that there certainly is mass tourism in parts of the Baltic but our first encounter with a Baltic beach was Debki and it will forever remain pristine in my mind. Before I left ireland I had been told that the best beach on the Baltic was Debki but I had no idea that this was the beach closest to Krokowa. It's an almost perfect combination of countryside, forest and beach. You approach through golden wheatfields, cut through the deep shady forest and emerge on a spectacular beach. In the middle of the forest is a single paved roadway with some wooden shops and beachbars. -This is the 'strip' - no traffic, no congestion, no honkytonk, just this single paved part of the forest between you and the sea. There are campsites off among the trees and the cutest wooden houses you have ever seen. When you emerge fromthe trees and hit the sand, the impact of the Baltic is breathtaking and as it's not overcrowded you can do some serious communing with the elements. Not to be missed under any circumstances. Directions: Debki is on the coast, about 5km from Krokowa.
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The fact that I have chosen to put Gdansk last in my list of things to do in Baltic Poland is no reflections on this city's attractions.It is though, a definite shift in priorities because originally I planned to stay in Gdansk and visit the countryside and ultimately I ended up staying in the country and visiting the city. This completely reverses my usual travelling pattern which is to spend time in and relish the country but rush back to the city before niightfall. What can I say? The Baltic seduced me with its many charms. But back to Gdansk. This is a city which doesn't overwhelm you: it's manageable in terms of size and attractions. As far as I'm concerned it's the most charming city in Poland, small enough to let you relax and savour the tremendous detail in all of its buildings and the total buzz of life on its streets. I love the Dutch aspect of the architecture, the ornate gilding and gold statuary blending beutifully with the red brick. I also love a city with a busy riverbank and they don't come much busier than the riverbanks in Gdansk. IN fact here wasn't anything I didn't love about Gdansk, except maybe the fact that the heatwave during our stay prevented me from seeing everyhing I had planned on seeing. Address: Gdansk, Poland.
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The Slowinski National Park is the third largest in Poland and includes four huge lakes, beach, wildlife reserve and most spectacularly, the world-famous 'shifting dunes'. These dunes are enormous and testament to their shifting, is the weird landscape of stunted pines sticking out at odd angles from hillsides of sand. To get to the dunes you must park your car and either hire a bike or travel on the little open train. You could conceivably walk from the carpark but it would be a very long walk and let you with little energy for the climb at the other end. The dunes when you eventually reach them, are enormous and make no mistake about it, climbing them on a hot day in July is a pretty daunting prospect. That didn't seem to deter anybody though and there was a continual snake of people winding up and down in pursuit of the ultimate goal - reaching the summit. I thought I was going to die and my husband was even worse. Still we eventually made it and collapsed in a sweaty, spluttering heap, much to the amusement of our younger, fitter friends. At the top, children and adult children hurled themselves downhill at an impossibly steep angle and then climbed up again. I was dizzy, just watching them. The picture shows me standing triumphantly at the top (albeit with a little help from my friends) and you can judge how windy it was by the way my hair was blowing. A crazy but mindblowing experience. Directions: Slowinski national Park is just to the left of Leba on the Baltic coast.
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The opposite end of the spectrum to Debki is Hel and we discovered this for ourselves on a Sunday afternoon expedition. VT'er Evaanna had warned me that Hel was unbelievably traffic and people congested in Summer but after three days cocooned in idyllic Krokowa and Debki I thought she must have been exaggerating. I should have listened to the voice of experience but I was hellbent on a Sunday in Hel and there was no stopping me. By 4.00pm there was scarcely standing room on Ul. Wiejska and things weren't much better on the pier. On the beach there were bouncy castles and amusements and in that whole part of town,you couldn't move for stalls selling tourist tat. Despite all this, it's a hard place not to like and I found it very charming. Out of season it must be fabulous and it wouldn't take two hours bumper-to-bumper traffic to get to the top of the peninsula. The Hel peninsula is the long narrow arm of land that extends out across the bay of Gdansk. The sea is visible on both sides and there are several towns worth visiting here, like Chalupy, Kuznica, Jastarnia and Jurata.
If you want to visit these towns, go by boat from Gdansk or Gdynia or easier still visit Evaanna's Baltic pages. Directions: Hel is at the tip of the Hel Peninsula and can be reached by boat, train or bus.
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 The Annunciation altarpiece at
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