Gdansk

Been out touring the world a bit! At least parts of it within close and cheap reach, like for example Gdansk, where you can get potatoes for 3 SEK/kg (that's a third of a dollar!), but coffee unfortunately seems to have an international price, and restaurant meals are all for tourists...

So we ate huge hotel breakfasts and skipped two lunches. Gotta conserve that $$$ for other trips.

Sights? Here's a glimpse...

The museum of amber. We didn't visit any museums, but walked by a bundle. They're not super cheap either.

At one point in time Gdansk was apparently known as the Amber capitol of the world. They have one secluded street in the old town area with just amber displays. Hella cool but also hella costly.

The oldest and largest remaining crane from Medieval times! That building that hovers over the water. Photos don't do it justice.

A curious sign of life amidst the stuffed and lifeless.

The architecture overall, both in and outside the old parts of the city, was pretty cool. Nature and man-made melts together in a nice way, and there's a lot of brick. Some of it riddled with bullet holes from the war. Some from the Soviet era less cared for, slowly decaying, but still in use...

I don't think how big this church really is comes across in a picture, though Vilnius Lithuania still holds the record for the largest one I've ever seen.