When i landed at the airport i thought is that all ? i was disappointed and thought crap i need to rebook my flight, it was just like Eindhoven my home town with modern airport and boring tall sky scapers building , damn and shoot i dont want to experience NYC feeling .
Grumpily i hop to the bus and go for a ride to my hotel in the middle of old town, , the trip from airport took like a decade ( boring ) view with Mc Donals and KFC’s 🙄 am i making a big mistake to come here ?
Slowly we approached the old town , mamma mia .... all of sudden i am in the middle of Fantastic Beast movie , it was so unreal . The station looks like in the movie, i got goosebumps ....
I walked really fast towards my accommodatio, and yeah when you just got The Hilton diamond membership , you got the privileged to check in early and automatically upgraded to superior, complimentary bottles of water, welcome wine , free wifi, chocolates and other stuff , thank you Hilton ❤️
The view from my room to die for , and the complimentary wine really delish , heck i can easily get addictive to this kind of service.
I walked along the water towards Gdansk’s quaintest street: Mariacka. You’ll enter street by passing below the medieval St. Mary’s gate and it ends at the St. Mary’s church.
Every single house of St. Mary’s street is absolutely gorgeous: entrances are terraced but narrow and the richly decorated house fronts testify the wealth of their former owners. No wonder that the street has inspired several painters , i could stand here for hours.
I crossed the gate and walked to The Neptune Fountain on the Long Market in front of the Artus Court and has become the symbol of Gdansk.
The legend says that Neptune created Gdansk’s famous herbal liquor “Goldwasser”. Apparently he got angry because the extremely rich citizens of Gdansk (10% of the population were billionaires in Gdansk best times!!) kept throwing golden coins in the fountain.
With his trident he moved the water so much that all the gold fell into pieces and created the golden flakes that are typical for Goldwasser.
The Green Gate It is a yet another evidence for the Flemish and Dutch heritage and legacy of the Polish town And now the table got turn , lots of Polish people in The Lowland and Belgium.
its getting a bit colder, so i decided to do a prayer and went to the most beautiful church i have ever been , beautiful and humble.
I think i am in love , i always wanted to go to Gdansk for years but always cancelled it last minute , and today i am so in love , i walked and walked and discovered beautiful and amazing places, felt like home as i felt lots of Dutch style buildings, I kinda overwhelmed, i realised I haven’t ate since morning and really tired and really wanted to eat something spicy so i hit a tiny Thais restaurant for a good tofu curry , i will eat Polish stuff tomorrow but now i am going to eat and call it a day.......
To be continued
Gdansk old town Oct 16th
Such a beautiful city . This is part of the reason why I would leave Australia in a instant.