In the beginning, I'd like to start I live for 27 years in Poland since born. I wrote my story in the English language and please forgive my mistakes in spelling or grammar.
The travel happened Friday 12th of October 2018. After setting up what was the most important (which was taking a free day at work, booking an apartment using Internet application, and buying tickets for the train) we went to the destination course, Gdansk. I was surprised that travel was not bad - when I have still in my memory old PKP (shortcut of Polskie Koleje Państwowe - means Polish State's Railway) really ugly, stinky, used for decades, uncomfortable hard seats... yeah, the communism (some people call this socialism) was bad. Luckily, since the 1989 year, we have a democracy-called thing (what doesn't mean democracy like in the UK, France or even the USA). This time we were sitting on comfortable, big seats - on plane-like. Even the speaker is saying similar to on plane ones, every town's station. The route was about 315 kilometers, so we talked - how cheap are 18 US dollars for that route.
When we came to our small 32 square meters apartment - wow, sum 90 US dollars is so cheap for 2 nights for 4 peoples together, near Old Town. When we set up with our luggage, we went to the Old Town.
smaller version of London Eye, been in there and it is amazing
Polish "Venice" :)
In the late evening, we have eaten some food at one of the restaurants in the Old Town. Later, we went to the apartment to sleep. Tired, but very happy.
The next day, we went to Westerplatte. It is a historical part of Gdansk which, as we know from school and Wikipedia: There was "(...)famous for the Battle of Westerplatte, which was the first clash between Polish and German forces during the invasion of Poland and thus the first battle of the European theater of World War II." It was very important for us to see that place. We are poles, so we had to visit that place. There are many memorials, ruins of the military base barrack, and also big capital letters standing on ground: which says "Nigdy więcej wojny" ("No more war anymore" in English meaning). Next to it stands a big statue made of stone.
ruins of military base barrack
After visiting this place, we went to the beach. We were standing by the sea like other tourists, many were from abroad.
I even decided to walk into the Baltic sea with my feet. I was standing there for a few minutes - it was the 13th of October!! so the water was cold. I even did some photos showing medusas.
here you can see at least one of them:
Later, we came back to the city and eat some food at another restaurant. When we were coming home, we planned to buy one bottle of expensive vodka for drinking at the apartment. We were having fun with playing a board game, music, drinking vodka to the end of a 1 liter of the bottle (yeah, why not to drink 1 liter for 4 people - we are poles and we can make it). How nice it could be if we lay down on our pillows and beds... but we did not. Ladies have gone to sleep and us 2 boys decided to went for more vodka. We bought 0,5 Liter of vodka and (why not, we are heading home tomorrow and here is a safe and amazing atmosphere on the Old Town) we drank some of this bottle near Neptune statue - it was about 2 AM. We drank slowly a half of the bottle and we went home - it could be a great ending so far... but it did not because we walked to the place in a tunnel of the Old Town square and stopped by guitar singer. We didn't know, maybe it was a normal person playing some Polish songs and singing next to his friends. We started to sing with them, they got angry, a guitar player also was angry... they run for us and started to beat with fists. It was 4 people and we were only at the number of 2. We punched back to them and run away - it was the only thing we could do, I think. We came so-called "home" and got rest. Luckily, nothing bad happened for us - It could end even in a hospital (the guys we strong and too big for us).
The last day, Sunday was hard to be. The hangover and return to the Old Town. We decided to walk to the top of St. Mary's Church which was very hard for 2 of us. We took some photos of the panorama of the city, looked from the telescope and walked down. We rested for a while on benches and walked into the Museum of Toys. We saw it and walked quickly to our apartment to pack our luggage and left the apartment. We went to the train station and eat some. Came back late in the afternoon, very happy. I hope for more travels with them, as talked about it.
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