The View From the Hotel Room
My family came from Japan to Italy. We joined them and had a family holiday in Italy this autumn. First, we stayed in Milan. We stayed in the Michelangelo Hotel, which was…
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The Last Thing was Vodka
In the evening of the last day of our stay in Gdansk in Poland, we had a light supper at the hotel and drunk some vodka after that. There was a set…
Altar Made of Amber
We learned in the amber museum in Gdansk, in Poland, that there is a church whose altar is made of amber. So we went there, asking passers-by how to get there. The…
Jacket Potato Restaurant
The guide on the free walking tour in Gdansk in Poland said that there are many good restaurants in the street, which starts at the Great Armoury. So we walked there and…
Amber Museum
We went to the amber museum in Gdansk in Poland. I was not surprised to see the amber stones with insects in them, as we had seen them before in Lithuania, but this time, we…
Post Office
The last destination of the walking tour in Gdansk in Poland was the post office. On the 1st of September in 1939, WW2 started here in this post office. In those days,…
Wooden Crane
When you walk along the Motlawa River in Gdansk in Poland, you will not miss this black wooden building. This is the crane. I could not understand this at first, but there…
Copernicus
Another thing I learned during the walking tour in Gdansk in Poland was that Copernicus, the famous astronomer with his heliocentric model, was also a Catholic priest. He was born in Torun…
Green Gate
This is the Green Gate, which is situated at the end of Long Street, the main street in Gdansk in Poland. It was built by a Dutch architect in the 1560s. This…
