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 the previous week, 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.
What a crazy adventure. I had some fun in Poland, in Krakow... and me and my friends got a bit drunk, but all that was broken was an IKEA bed. :-D
Thanks for your post, which I've found because @pehteem featured in an entry for the Pay It Forward Contest
@trincowski, Hell yeah, it was crazy adventure. There was some more places and situation we had, but it would be harder to read. For example, when we went to Sopot town near Gdansk. At the end we went into bad train which was travelling opposite direction - to Gdynia (also a part of Tricity). Funny, great and good memories. I was at many places abroad and never had so much fun like in my country.
Hello there @wiseman91, looks like you really have anice adventures in Gdansk.. well, that city is a little well-known for an Indonesians a couple months ago because one of our promising young football player was signed a contract with one of the football club in Gdansk.
and how could you sang with strangers at 2 am?
Hello @cicisaja, whole trip to Gdansk was almost great, almost because we drank too much and this thing happened. Also, there are many musicians performing in the Old Town so we thought he was one of them, or maybe we shouldn't sing along with. If we drank less that time it wouldn't be such situation. We are poles, so we felt very comfortable in Gdansk.
Whooaaa... you should put a sign on that part with Don't do this while you drunk Lol.. thank you
@wiseman91 for the reply. Anyway... why were you powering down? Do you have another account?
@cicisaja, I don't know, maybe I should write something like that. I was not powering down, I have 25 reputation points since beginning of account. And I don't have another account. Thank you for writing comments, at least you brought some feedback for my article :)
So.. I suggest you to get more active by commenting on other posts too.. but I think you'll have a problem related to your mana or RC, so.. make sure you're ready to more reply soon😉 somebody would expose your post😅
Hello @wiseman91, I enjoyed your post and also your conversation with my friend @cicisaja and I think I could do something to expose your post by featuring you in the pay it forward contest this week, here is the link to my post >> https://steemit.com/payitforward/@pehteem/pay-it-forward-week-28-my-first-entry
Those photos alone tells me that you have a beautiful country. It really looks like you have a great time with your travel. Except for the hangover, that is. I am not sure with you guys why you drink to your hearts content and suffer the consequence later. 😃
Thanks for sharing your adventure. As you know, your article was featured by @pehteem on his post as an entry to Pay It Forward Curation Contest. You too are welcome to join the contest.
@macoolette, yeah, the hangover was really bad for me. I felt really sick after walking down from winding stairs of St. Mary's Church's tower. Even later, while travelling in train - I was feeling sick.
You know the hangover will come but I wonder why you still went on too drunk?
I live in Poland, sometimes there is not possible to say 'I drank too much' :)
So you keep drinking just to go with the flow? Oh no...
I really love your post! Such a from-the-heart, diary-type experience.
Sorry you ended up in danger, but I'm glad things worked out okay.
Thanks for sharing your photos and story with us!
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Thanks for such warm words. You're welcome.
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Hi wiseman whole article is alright apart from saying that our democracy in poland is not like in uk or france yeah their democracy is far much worse ..... need to get some news up to date
@compaqer, so you are trying to say we have rich country with great democrational law? I don't think so. Or maybe you are russian troll?
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Thank you so much for sharing your travels to Poland here! I've never been, and it looks wonderful :)
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@lynncoyle1, I am glad to read so much warm words. Indeed, Poland is beautiful. It may be your next place to visit soon. We have so much wonderful places, so I am wondering... my life is too short or I don't earn much to visit all wonderful places in Poland. Not only cities, but also smaller towns. I live in 60k population town and it is great too.
My husband and I have a friend who is originally from Poland, and he always talks about how beautiful it is! Maybe one day we can visit :)
Many Polish cities are great, but you should consider to visit Masuria region (with many great lakes and forests) or southern Poland with big mountains... I don't know to recommend, there is plenty wonderful places in my country :)
Is it very expensive to go sightseeing there?
@essilenna, for poles even, it is not expensive. I don't know where are you from, but catching cheap flights to Gdansk airport is easy. Sightseeing is quite cheap, even with visiting museums. For me, there was a rule of 8 US dollars - this was the cost of ride on smaller version of London eye, eating a meal in most restaurants. You can visit museums at about 4 US dollars mostly. You can see Westerplatte using 1 dollar ticket or go to Sopot for also 1 dollar, which is part of this tricity, to see and walk on Sopot's Molo which is also great. I personally spent about 160 US dollars including flat and train from my town both sides 315km at one direction. Notice one thing we were only 3 days in this city, what is short time. If you want to plan travel here, better do it from about April, when the weather is good enough. Nowadays, Poland has strong winds and much raining.
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