It was a beautiful clear sunny day but cold at 10 degrees when we woke up. It soon warmed up and it was 15 by the time we left the campsite in Posnan. Posnan is in the middle of Poland and we drove nearly all the way to the German border along a good motorway…

We woke up to lovely sunshine so we got ready and headed out for our day on the town of Posnan. We walked along the side of Lake Malta seeing all sorts of sports and the hair razing experience of a bungee jump from a tall crane.   There was some serious rowing practice going…

I woke up from a good sleep. We were overnight in a central carpark at Bydgoszcz – it had been very quiet overnight.  It is now getting colder – around 11 degrees in the morning so I put the heater on which gives a huge blast of warm air.  We had a shower in the…

We woke up to consistent rain and lots of clouds so it wasn’t a day for birdwatching  I had to get tax figures to my accountant so sat with my coffee doing that. It felt like the strangest place to be getting serious accounts figures together – but very pleasant.  Soon I was finished and…

It was a bit rainy and overcast in Gdansk when we woke up. We got breakfasted, tidied and washed up and Glenn and I said goodbye to Lisa and Sean for a few days.  We drove north to Slovinski National Park. Lisa and Sean are off to Poznan then going to Berlin 3 days before us…

It rained quite a bit last night and continued into the morning.   Sean woke up with the cold so it was good he stayed at home in the van to recover. The remaining 3 of us went into town and got off the bus early where we could walk along the river to the busy…

We left early to cycle to the Westerplatte coast area where first shots of WWII were fired.  The initial path through the forest wasn’t too bad for bikes – only a bit sandy in places. We are near the coast so it’s to be expected.  We were basically going around Gdansk port which is huge. …

It was rainy in the morning so we didn’t get going until after 10.30am. We caught the free bus again and were soon back in the old town.  We revisited the Main Street – Dluga street and decided we needed coffee. So we went back to the same spot as yesterday.  After our nice coffee and…

We caught the free bus into the middle of Gdansk and went down the Main Street of Ulica Dluga.  We found two medieval gates at the top of the street and then got through to the decorated houses behind. Due to Gdansk being a major port in the 1700s there were many rich Dutch merchants…

We got up late after our big day at Malbork and drove off to Gdansk. Our first stop was a good SpeedQueen launderette with large , efficient, electronic controlled machines where we got all our washing up to date. Then we went on to a Lidl for a stock up. We saw these on the…