gdansk, poland

highlights of the trip:

• walking through the beautiful, colorful, historic old town
• dragon head water spouts
• tons of red brick
• stopping at a cute cafe to warm up with mulled wine
• eating at a Polish milk bar. Amazing.
• Malbork Castle
• learning about Polish culture and history from our wonderful hosts
• Polish sausage
• Polish bread
• seeing an actual bomb shelter
• browsing Polish children's books and eventually purchasing one with funky ink illustrations
• finally getting a matryoshka doll after wanting one since I was a little girl
• learning how to make zurek (Polish soup) and then enjoying it.




















Malbork Castle - the largest red brick castle in the world:









monument to the striking ship yard workers - I love how the hands come down the side:








this church is 1000 years old - check out how crooked the walls are in the next photo:

we're back

©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

This is just a quick post to say that we have returned from Poland and had a fantastic time. I'll post some photos and such later.

upcoming trip

My husband is going to have several days off in a row in a couple of weeks so we wanted to take advantage of that to visit another country. We found ridiculously cheap flights to Gdansk, Poland, so that's where we'll be going. I'm so excited. This type of getaway, where we get to experience other parts of the world, is exactly why we moved to the UK in the first place. I can't wait :)