What a lovely country. Well the small part that I saw of it anyway!Our main objective when visiting Poland was to buy Zubrowka bison grass flavoured vodka and to see the artists performing at the Heineken Open er Festival.
We succeeded in drinking many kinds of vodka, lots of cheap beer and not only to rock out on the mud covered arena but see some nice historic buildings.
The town that we stayed in was pretty much destroyed thanks to both Axis and Allied invastions. Many of the beautiful buildings and courtyards have been rebuilt.
St Mary's church has been a major project in Gdansk. It has massive and ornate pieces like the organ you can see below and the glass window. Not all the windows have been replaced but there is the odd panel of coloured glass that has survived which is scattered amongst regular coloured glass. It made me wonder what a mess the church must have been.
The streets were cobbled with stairways leading up to the shops on either side. A dog barked out the shutters on the second floor between flower pots.
We talked to a German visitor who said that although the older locals speak German they would not speak to him. Gdansk was actually renamed by the German's to Danzig. I'm not sure when it returned to the original name. This was common all throughout Poland.
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