Gdansk Reviews

Most British or American people who heard of Gdansk associate with Solidarity, Lech Walesa and shipyards: images of industrial grime, smoke-filled sky and communist-era concrete apartment blocks are a natural association. And while Gdansk has its own quota of concrete suburbs and several major industries, and the cranes of the shipyard ...  Read the complete review

For the last week or so I have had my mother-in-law over from the UK. She has never visited Poland before and as it might be a while before she comes again I wanted to take her on a trip to a city outside of Warsaw. Krakow would probably have been a good choice but having spent many years living near the sea I thought Gdansk would be a better ...  Read the complete review

Whilst Gdynia is a transport hub for the coastline and the more businessy town of Trojmiasto (Three Cities) and Sopot is a playground of beaches, restaurants, cafes and pubs, it's Gdansk that remains my favourite of the three as it nicely combines a working port with a lovely old town. To most tourists Gdansk is probably known as the ...  Read the complete review

If you are like me and grew up in the 70s and 80s, then you probably have the same distorted view of Gdánsk as I did. I associated the place with huge ship-building plants and Solidarity. So when somebody suggested going to Gdánsk for a long weekend I was a bit dubious. We travelled over by car from Germany. The border crossing was a ...  Read the complete review