Poland

The top of a building in Gdansk

Gdansk

In the Malbork castle

Building in Torun

Old Hala in Warsaw

Prozna street, Warsaw

The Wawel

Wedding in the Wawel

Lublin

The pictures above were taken while traveling with friends who visited us in Poland, namely: Attila and Zsuzsa, Michele and Daria.

With Daria and Michele we traveled to Toruń and then to Gdańsk. It is really worth to visit both places. Toruń is a small city with a very nice downtown, which includes the Mikołaj Kopernikus house (Nicolaus Copernicus) which is now museum. Gdańsk is famous in the world because of the Solidarnośc movement, which had a lot to do with the fall a communism in Eastern Europe. If you are there, please visit the Solidarnośc Museum in the Stocznia (shipyard). We did not visit it but according to Daria and Michele, you should not miss it. The downtown of Gdańsk is beautiful, sometimes because of the architecture you might feel like you are in Netherlands or Germany.

The Malbork castle is simply amazing and the direct consequence of this is that the castle is full of visitors. After a while, it might get annoying… So if you can, visit it early morning. When we were there the entrance fee was around 10 euros, but if you have a student card, you can get a discount.

Ervin “escorted” Attila and Zsuzsa to Kraków. It is useless to insist here about the beauty of this city (there are sites that do this “job” better). The pictures were taken in the Wawel.

It is interesting to mention the picture taken in Próżna Street. For a while we lived in this neighborhood and this is how we discovered the street. The territory where the street is used to be part of the Warsaw Ghetto. If you walk down the street nowadays, you will feel like in a time machine because the buildings from that time are still standing and probably they were not renovated at all after the end of the Second World War.