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Wysłany: Czw Lip 24, 2008 12:10 Temat postu: "Shipyards to Sheratons in Gdansk" The Grand Tour
Shipyards to Sheratons in Gdansk
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About the Grand Tour
This summer, the Frugal Traveler is embarking on the Grand Tour, reimagining the classic European journey as a budget-minded, modern-day jaunt. Over 12 weeks and on less than 100 euros a day, Matt Gross will circle the continent in search of cool hotels, memorable meals and contemporary culture. New columns and videos will be posted every Thursday, with updates and frugal tips throughout the week.
It was threatening rain when I walked unchecked into the Gdansk shipyards last Friday, my eyes focused on the beautiful jungle of industrial machinery up ahead. Elaborate steel cranes, painted green, loomed over the rusty carcasses of half-built ships, and inside the sagging brick warehouses, I imagined, were heavy and mysterious tools. My camera batteries were fully charged, and I was hoping to spend the day photographing these historic shipyards, birthplace of the Solidarity movement, which brought down Polish Communism in the 1980s, and now nearly bankrupt.
The security guard running after me had other ideas. I was only a couple of hundred yards into the vast complex when he stopped me and explained, in vociferous Polish that didn’t need translation, that I wasn’t welcome. And so I turned around and walked away from the Gdansk of my imagination — a postindustrial nightmare wrought in concrete and steel — and toward the Gdansk of reality, a much brighter place.
Gdansk is centered on the Main Town, a neighborhood of arched passageways, gilded ornamentation and stately brick buildings that testify to the city’s wealth in the 16th and 17th centuries. Church bells ring out the hours, buskers embark on indie-folk careers in the cobblestone streets and children slurp ice cream cones and clutch helium balloons along the waterfront promenade. Gdansk, it turns out, is a tourist haven, the anchor of three Baltic Sea towns — Sopot and Gdynia are the others — that make up what might well be termed the Polish Riviera. Outside of Poles and a few Germans, who knew this was such a hot spot?
Wysłany: Czw Lip 24, 2008 15:00 Temat postu: not bad
Not bad article and not bad adventure, isn't it?... Specially with this "disgusting toast":
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Another time, at a waterfront stand near a future Hilton hotel, I ate toast smeared with lard and topped with sautéed onions, kielbasa and sliced pickles. It was the best — and most disgusting — thing I’ve ever eaten, and it only cost 9.50 zlotys.
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