tiistai 24. heinäkuuta 2012

Monday 23th, Waking up after the first night of CS

When the morning came Janina was more of a sleepyhead than me. I woke up a few minutes earlier and was listening to Bartosz'es children and wife get ready to head out. We also decided to get up to be able to give the children a little something we brought from Finland.

Bartosz started to prepare an amazing breakfast for us. Coffee, tea, local ryi bread, our Finnish Ryi bread a couple of different Polish dishes. A soup and a sour cabbage, kind of a homecheese fresh ham etc. He really knew what a HHrs breakfast needs to be.


That all eaten we could have HHed all the way to Italy.

Joan and Janina found a common language. Catalan is near french so they could communicate better. All together we were talking about everything from the economic situation to travelling equipment with five languages. Spanish between Joan and Bartosz, Catalan and French with Janina and Joan, some of that Janina translated to me in Finnish. Janina, I and Bartosz talked in English. So a really international breakfast.

At some point Joan got up and went to pack his bag as he needed to get the train out of town soon. We had already put our stuff mostly together before breakfast. So after breakfast we just quickly picked up our stuff and headed out together to be able to see Juan off.

Bartosz had ordered a taxi as Joan was almost late from the train. We threw our bags in and everybody jumped in. After a while of crazy driving we were early in the train station. Joan fooled us about the time his train leaves. Better to be early than late. There was still a huge coal train on the rail where Joan's train should come to.


After the goodbyes we went to the city for some sightseeing. Bartosz helped us find the hot spots before we had to leave. We went through the beautiful streets of Gdansk towards the main church. The second biggest brick church in Europe. Right after Notre Dame. The church had been bombed badly during the second world war. They rebuild it but because they didn't have any original building designs they needed to do it only based on photos.
Thats why the church has a weird corner. The windows from different walls hit each other without any room in between for the window support stucture.


We went inside and eventhough feeling a bit scared of other building flaws ;) we went up the church tower.


Fourhundred stairs later we were happy that we left our bags down to the portier.

The view was amazing, the tower is the tallest building in the area. 80m to be precise.

We tried to spot all the 26 churches in the center. And all of them are christian so not a wide diversity. Also spotted Bartosz home almost, the harbour and the ruins from second world war.

Heading down was to Janinas opinion harder as the steps were steep and small.


Bartosz showed us also the chapel of kings that is well hidden from the tourists. The door is open but it seems like you are going to somebodys home.


Then we walked through the most beautiful street in Gdansk in Bartosz opinion and we liked it also. Here is the picture.


We headed to Bartosz's workplace for our goodbyes. It was in the same direction as we were headed. Thank you Bartosx for everything and sorry for keeping you from work.

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