Poland August 12-15

Fountain in old town

We just spent four days in lovely Gdansk Poland.  There is a lot of history here, in addition to WWII, there are medieval castles and towns.  Unfortunately, some were rebuilt due to the bombing during the war.  Gdansk is about 5-6 hours from Auschwitz and some participants did visit, because the kids are still young, we opted to hang out in the Gdansk area.

The first day, we went on an SAS tour of some churches, had a wonderful and grand organ concert and then toured old town of Gdansk.





On day two, we went on a tour hour trip to another medieval old town, the town of Torun.  The highlight was a tour of the gingerbread museum.  They learned how gingerbread was made in medieval times and got try their hand at making it.  Unfortunately, it didn't tast very good, but it was fun.







The third day we went into the old town of Gdansk and enjoyed some last minute souvenir shopping.  There was also a large festival going on, so we enjoyed the booths, street food and a giant Ferris Wheel.

On our last day in port through SAS (sad), we spent time at a nearby beach where the kids were happy to run around and build sand castles.  We went back into old town to watch the end of the Gdansk marathon with a bunch of other people.  Eight of our voyagers ran the a marathon.  It was a fun way to end the trip.  The last thing Shannon and I visited was the Westerplatte Monument.  The monument was right next to where the ship was docked and is there to memorialize where World War II started.  We made Andy proud again.