3days in 3city

Tricity and is a kind of agglomeration at the Polish seaside, which consists of 3 cities: Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia.
As soon as I came back to Poland I decided to make a trip there to meet Kasia and Daniel. On the day of my arrival to Gdynia, Kasia and Daniel were coming back from Toruń, medieval Polish city famous for birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus and pierniki (eng. gingerbread). The type of pierniki that Kasia and I are holding in the picture is called Katarzynki (eng. Catherines).

Even though it was getting pretty late, we've spent some time in the bar by the beach. I liked the place very much especially because of the good company and sea shanties in the background.

Smile, you're in Gdynia
(don't worry, rhinoceros didn't get hurt)

The next day begun with the trip to Gdańsk. This city was founded by Polish kings around Xth century but soon afterwards taken over by Prussia and Germany to be returned to Poland after the II World War. It belonged to the Hanseatic League for centuries. Therefore its architecture is a bit different in comparison to other Polish cities. For example, it has a lot of Dutch-style tall buildings.

The only leaflets we had from the Tourist Office were in Spanish, so sometimes translations of the names of places were hilarious. The pictures below present the most characteristic monuments.

Golden Gate - entrance to the old part of the city

Medieval port Crane (the black wooden building) and Dutch-style houses by the Motława river

Timber framing houses

While seeing this guy selling self-painted kanjis with "Your name in Japanese", I came up with an idea of earning money in Japan! I could do the same as him but "Your name in Polish" - Haruki Murakami could be Henryk Murakowski or Yoko Ono could be Jolka Onowicz.

Our evening plan was watching a movie in the open air cinema at the Sopot Pier, which is, by the way, the longest pier in Europe! In Sopot, I had a chance to see a Crooked House, which wasn't there 8 years ago when I've visited this place for the last time. I still can't believe my eyes when I look at the picture below! Extraordinary, isn't it?


Have you ever heared of ZORBING? No? Well, here it comes! The idea of it is that a person gets inside the transparent ball and keeps rolling. I've seen it for the first time in the mountains a couple of years ago and it looked kind of scary but doing this activity in the sea must be much more pleasant.

Last but not least, turn on your imagination coz I'm not allowed to publish the pictures. While waiting for the movie, Kasia and Daniel suggested playing a game with camera's self-timer. The idea of it is that you turn on self-timer and in the last seconds before taking a shot one of the people says what kind of stupid face everybody should do. Our favourite ones were: "PIGS" and "SMOKING NARGILA". Try it at home! You won't regret!

At the end of the day it turned out that to watch the movie in the open air ORANGE cinema for free we should pay the entance fee to the pier, so as a sign of protest we decided not to go there.
The power is ours!