Witamy from the Baltic Sea region! We now arrived in Gdansk and we can see the Baltic Sea from the Hotel we are in! Tomorrow we will actually see more of the region. Before we arrived here we saw a few key sites in history-Hitler's bunker where an assassination attempt took place in Mragrowo, and Copernicus's study in Frombork. The "Bunker" was really a whole camp of cement barracks in the middle of a swamp filled with MOSQUITOES. It was really interesting and fun to go through the site, but I still do not love mosquitoes. In Frombork, the Cathedral was beautiful. We did not go through Copernicus's tower, but we did go up another one where you could see so much from the top! You could see the Sea and on the horizon you could see...RUSSIA! That was definitely very cool to see. These sites show how much pride Poland takes in their history. It was also interesting to see the contrast between the urban area of Warsaw and the rural country surroundings. Lots of canola oil plants and some cows. The roads in parts were not the greatest, and we passed a lot of construction workers. Still, it is definitely more rural than parts of New York State. I can't wait to see what Gdansk has to offer tomorrow!
Maggie