Travel / Would like to visit krakow, any advice? [11]

Ive been to Krakow.

Lovely place to visit ,I shall return there one day, hopefully soon.

The square as mentioned above, well actually its the Cloth Hall which is in the square

Travel / Would like to visit krakow, any advice? [11]

Oh I did, I thoroughly enjoyed it,only went to the weekend so theres so much left to visit
jewish quarter, salt mines, the castles etc etc.

I did go to visit Aushwitz which took a whole day out of the weekend.

heres a question for you,...

On the Sunday evening there was a parade of Police officers in very smart dress code to the church in the square, is that a usual Sunday occurance or was it for something special it was the last Sunday of Janurary 06?

stayed a the Wyskpianski Hotel

Travel / Krakow's Weather [8]

Forget the Pidgeons, watch out for the doggy doo doo`s in the side streets,... yuk !

Travel / Gdansk best places to stay [7]

Ive been looking into this myself,..

Novotel Centrum for a hotel on the doorstep to the old town but there are lots of hotels to choose from

Sightseeing Gdansk in the day time and off to Sopot for the nighttime club/bar stuff.

Travel / Gdansk best places to stay [7]

I never thought of that,.... lol

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]

Thanks Pink

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]

Would that be up and running in winter though?

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]

Whilst Im on this thread can I please ask anyones opinions on 3 nightclubs on SpiceIsland in gdansk,..namely

plantea hollywood

soda cafe

city of angels

Thanks in advance

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]

Thanks Mac,

yes Ive heard of that one

Im being lazy ,you see, as the hotel is at the back of these places lol

Any more that can give me some idea advice regarding these clubs pleeeeease ?

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]

Ah yes but traveling to eastern europe in winter is my favourite as it dont snow like it used to in England anymore.

In summertime its Eygpt and snorkeling the reefs for me

So anyway back to gdansk,....

As pork is my favourite meat,.. anyone reccemmend a good restaurant for pork dishes

and in reply to scottie no never been before so very much looking forward to it
I have been to krakow which was great.

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]

End of Jan for 3days mate thursday31st till sunday morning me and 2 mates
I think,Ive got the old town sussed with the help of google earth
just wanted to suss out the clubs for older chaps as I think iwe`d look a bit silly in a teenager bar/club place as we aint on a stag weekend etc etc

heard that (city of angels) maisto aniolow aint too bad for us mature peeps

Came back today and I had a great time

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]

Hi all and thakyou for the welcome back.

Firstly the waether was a bit of a disapointment meaning it didnt snow ,..lol oh well we cant have everything,....it was cold which was good but it was very grey all weekend until we got to the airport and then the sun came out,..typical !!

Well I went with 3 friends and we thouroghly liked the city and as it was winter we didnt run into any stag night idiots etc etc in fact we rarely ran into another group of tourists full stop dont get me wrong we all like a beer or 5 but this wasnt the kind of trip we went on as we went to see Westerplatte and the shipyards/ roads to freedom museum so it was about beginnings,..... beginning of WW2 and the beginnings of the fall of the soviet union.

What surprised me the most well i think it was the fact that the city wasnt all geared up towards the touristy type thing and we very much mixed with the locals when out and about which we liked, although that may change in the summertime.

My mates loved it,.. we were a mixture of mid 20`s mid 30`s and me mid 40`s and as they said why come out to another country as do something that you can do at home every weekend in fact one of the group is a night club manager so he pretty much does the club scene every day of his working life, so didnt feel the need to do it here

( although we did visit Miasto aniolow on the firiday)
and they loved the culture and historical aspect of Gdansk.

Disapointments well none really apart from the lack of snow but thats just a personal thing oh and the fact that some bars and restaurants we were looking for no longer exsist and have turned into banks and the like which is strange cos in England banks seem to turn into bars lol

Food / Eating out in Poland [43]

Well Ive just come back from a 4 day trip and eat nothing but Polish food

Wild boar,. creamed mushrooms, golonka, pierogi,... not all at the same time of course

but after the sunday roast sized golonka I needed to sit down for a week lol well no thats a lie really,.. i needed to wash it down with a few Goldwasser`s and then sit down

happy days

Food / Eating out in Poland [43]

No way the pork was cooked so well, i couldnt stop well not until the chair collasped,... lol

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]

OK to make it a bit easier for me,.. cos not everyone will have the sma eopinion as me and Im not up on this blogging business

so

ask away and ill reply with a detailed answer

Travel / I'm off to Gdansk at the end of January [24]

Ok

the first mean we had was in the Goldwasser restaurant which overlooked the river and I can imagine in the summertime this would be fantastic but as it was winter and with very few tourists around in fact we were the only ones around town at that stage. we were greated with a pleasnt smile off a male waiter no females in there at the time and given the menu

we had to try the peirogi which was great my party chose the eels duck and i had the wild boar all was very very good and of course we had to try the Goldwasser itself which was great.

My best meal was in a restaurant called the "flying dutchman" in the long market when i had the golonka,.. yum !!

i thought Gdansk was great and I Love the polish people