Jetgirly Says: Poland's first post-war steamship is now part of the Maritime Museum. Visitors can explore the ship gloriously unsupervised. There's nothing to stop you from pushing a button, turning a handle or falling down one of the steep stairways into the icy-cold Baltic canals for...
Jetgirly Says: I grew up by the sea, in a city with a Maritime Museum inside a really cute heritage building, but for some reason I never visited. I found myself in Kotor, staying in a hostel that opened onto the Maritime Museum's front door, but I still didn't visit. Finally, in Gdansk,...
Jetgirly Says: I'm not going to lie- I don't even know what a crane is. I mean, I know what a crane is, but I don't know how cranes existed in medieval times, how they worked, why they even needed them, or if they were even cranes in the sense of the cranes I can comprehend. And I say this...
Jetgirly Says: What's the opposite of disappointing? Appointing? In that case, the only appointing thing about my brief visit to Sopot was the ginormous (yeah, I'm just making up all kinds of words here) boardwalk (technically a pier, called "molo" in Polish). Built in 1827 it stretches...
Jetgirly Says: After disappointing queues at Malbork Castle I decided to spend the rest of my day in Sopot, a little seaside resort town much closer to my home base of Gdansk. Once a popular tourism and spa destination for European royals, Sopot today looks a little sad and crumbling,...
Jetgirly Says: Malbork is a small town near Gdansk that happens to be home to the world's largest brick castle. It makes an easy day trip by train (or with car, if you're all fancy-schmancy!), though you have to be prepared to battle the crowds.There are trains from Gdansk to Malbork about...
Jetgirly Says: Neptune was the Roman god of the water and the sea. Gdansk is a bustling port city. It is fitting, then, that the heart of historic Gdansk should feature a fountain of this Roman sea god. The statue was first built in the 1500s and then converted into a fountain. During the...
Jetgirly Says: A classic Eastern European market hall, Hala Targova is located close to the train station in the historic center and is full of vendors selling everything from fruits and vegetables to housewares and fashions. If you need an umbrella (like I did) or a banana, this is the...
Jetgirly Says: Right outside the infamous shipyard gates rises the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers. I found the history of this monument quite interesting. I had just assumed that it honored workers who were killed during the Solidarity movement and associated strikes, but actually...
Jetgirly Says: Roads to Freedom is Gdansk's most important museum, honoring the memory of the shipyard workers (and others) who took action to end Communism in Poland. Visitors receive an audioguide in their native language and progress through the exhibits. First, you will experience life...
Jetgirly Says: At the end of the Westerplatte Educational Trail visitors will find the Statue to the Defenders of Westerplatte. This tower rises twenty-five meters and is made from more than two hundred granite blocks. Annual memorial services are held on the site.To reach the base of the...
Jetgirly Says: The second world war broke out here, at Westerplatte, when a German battleship on a "friendship" visit surprised Poland by attacking this small military depot. Poland had only about two hundred men on site, while nearly 1800 Germans were involved in the attack. Amazingly,...
Jetgirly Says: Wanting to really understand what it was like aboard a warship during WW2 I signed up for a pirate ship cruise of Gdansk's dirty-but-evocative port area, taking me to and from Westerplatte. The trip costs about ten euros and takes about thirty minutes. Don't worry- you don't...
Jetgirly Says: For my Last Supper in Poland (technically lunch, I guess) I stopped at Pizza Sempre on the main tourist drag. Decorated the way Disney would imagine an Italian pizzeria this restaurant is pretty small, though in good weather patrons can spill onto their outdoor patio for...
Jetgirly Says: Possibly furnished with furniture stolen from an Ikea cafeteria, Bioway restaurant is exactly what an Ikea cafeteria would be like if they didn't serve Swedish meatballs. They've got soups, salads and hot entrees like pastas and mock meat products served cafeteria-style by...
Jetgirly Says: The bus and train stations at Gdansk have something of a luggage locker crisis. They have approximately 1% of the actual number of lockers they need, and about 75% of the lockers they do have are broken. Yup, that means that about 0.25% of travelers who need luggage lockers...
Jetgirly Says: For travelers without a visa for Belarus or Russia (Kaliningrad), moving onward to Lithuania can be a minor hassle. During my visit in summer 2012, overnight buses were running this route every other day. The route was very busy and I'd recommend buying a 150-zl ticket...
briantravelman Says: Traveling to Poland on 4 seperate occassions, I have noticed that people in the cities are a lot ruder than people in small towns and villages. You may encounter some anti-American sentiment in the city. I recieved a rude remark from a lady in Gdansk for speaking English,...
briantravelman Says: If you come during the off season, basically from late September to late May, you will be dissapointed when you discover a lot of the best tourist attractions are closed. I went in April once and it was a dissapointment. The Ratusz was closed, the fort was closed, the...
vulpes Says: There is an exchange money office right in the beggining of the main pedestrian street,from the side of the Golden Gate,in orange colors,named as ''KANTOR CHANGE''.They have a 0% commision advertisememt plaquat and this is the honey of the case.They do not have a board with...
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I visited Gdansk during celebrations of the 25th anniversary of Solidarity Movement in August 2005. The city really impressed me for many reasons.
Except, common in many old European cities, amazing...
Gdansk is the Polish maritime capital with the population nearing half a million. It is a large centre of economic life, science, culture, and a popular tourist destination. Lying on the Bay of Gdansk...
Gdansk was my holiday base for one week at the beginning of October 2005. The Polish city is situated at the Baltic Sea and has a population of about 460.000. With the seaside resort Sopot and the......
In the summer of 2008 I had a few realistic choices to travel there. Gdansk was one of them. I chose Gdansk for a few reasons.First of all, I wanted to see the Western part of Poland. I knew it was...
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL OLD CITY
Gdansk is a thousand years old!
Situated on the Baltic Sea in the north of Poland, Gdansk is a beautiful port city with a long history.
The fort was built in the 980s by...
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