A Tale Of Three Cities
Our Polish Adventure...
Gdansk is one of three large coastal towns that dominate the Polish Baltic coastline. Known collectivley as the Trojmiasto, or Tri-city,
they are Gsansk, Sopot and Gdynia.
We felt it was our duty to investigate all three cities. Luckily for us Sopot has a beach!
Gdansk is not only a busy tourist centre but also home to many industrial plants and the famous shipyards (previously Lenin shipyards) which were the impetus behind the Solidarity strikes of the 1980's.
Sopot is a very popular Polish holiday resort. It has a cosmopolitan atmosphere, a pier and plenty of lodys (ice-creams).
Gdynia is the least attractive and most run down of the three cities. The port was built in the 1930's to open up Poland's trade routes in the Baltic region. It is now a centre of economic growth. The authorities in Gydnia are currently planning a new ferry terminal, which will operate between Polish and Finnish coastal areas.
Gdansk is one of three large coastal towns that dominate the Polish Baltic coastline. Known collectivley as the Trojmiasto, or Tri-city,
they are Gsansk, Sopot and Gdynia.
We felt it was our duty to investigate all three cities. Luckily for us Sopot has a beach!
Gdansk is not only a busy tourist centre but also home to many industrial plants and the famous shipyards (previously Lenin shipyards) which were the impetus behind the Solidarity strikes of the 1980's.
Sopot is a very popular Polish holiday resort. It has a cosmopolitan atmosphere, a pier and plenty of lodys (ice-creams).
Gdynia is the least attractive and most run down of the three cities. The port was built in the 1930's to open up Poland's trade routes in the Baltic region. It is now a centre of economic growth. The authorities in Gydnia are currently planning a new ferry terminal, which will operate between Polish and Finnish coastal areas.
posted by Polska Adventurer at 1:29 PM
6 Comments:
Loveley new word, atmousphere must be the Polish version but it does invoke some interesting concepts, rather than raining "cats and dogs" it could be raining "mice and frogs".
Keep on blogging
hello hope you're still having lots of fun sounds very interesting, please try and get a cd of the polish beatles!! have spent my day off today watching the entire 1st series of the chronicles of narnia, relived our childhood, missed you but mostly missed the fact that we had no sardines!! loving reading what you've been up to, take care! x x
I will get a cd of the Polish beatles just for you! And when I get back we can eat sardines together and whatch Mr Tumnus. Or maybe we could think of something better to do with you're day off - like go to the zoo!! Hope you're not working too hard, say hi to mum and dad for me. Love Beth xxx
This is from my friend George on reading the Blog(He is an editor who always comments on my email errors)
Hi Phil, nice to hear from you. I've just read the Blog. Needs to be published in the weekend Travel Section of some well-known paper. It's awfully good. The 'walking beer mug' is hilarious. Would the Poles know what a 'mullet' was I wonder, if they didn't realise it wasn't a fish? 'Lodys' sound nice, I fancy one right this minute.
However, no-one can spell any more. (I hope you're not passing it on, Phil.) I picked up:
recieved (received); nationalality (nationality); ninties (nineties); wiled (whiled); recomended (recommended); Foriegn (foreign) suplementing (supplementing); charecters - ugh! (characters) etc.
What a pain I am! But who taught the children how to write (or didn't teach them, more like it)?
Keep on blogging!
Hi Beth we hav bought a house. Ky thinks we got it in sainsbury's for reasons to long to explain. Hope you are all well. I love the comment about spelling u r doing really well. Your spelling is much better than the letters u sent when u were 5. Loads of love Nikki (b sis)
Yes I know my spelling is poor. We were too short of time for the copy editor to check it. Good news on the house, that's amazing, I hear you can get almost anything in Sainsbury's theese days.
Beth
xx
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