Senior tour to Poland
TOUR OF NORTHERN POLAND – POMMERANIA, WARMIA, MASURIA, PODLACHIASPF Seniors Västerhaninge – September 2015
OUR HAPPY TEAM
Breakfast in the hotel
– Buffet
Lunch in Hel
– Fried cod fillet with French fries and salad
– Ice-cream, coffee, juice
Kashubian party
– Mustard soup
– Oven baked meat
– Fried herring
– Pierogi
– Salads
– Home baked cakes
– Kashubian cucumber water
– Coffee or tea
– Beer or wine
Hotel in a gothic merchant house
We experienced:
– The Main Town in Gdansk
– St. Mary’s Church
– Long Street
– Long Market
– Neptune’s Fountain
– The Main Town Hall
– Artus Court
– St. Mary’s Street
– The Great Arsenal
– Piwna Street
– The Long Quay
– Amber shops
Hotel in old army barracks
FROM NYNÄSHAMN TO GDANSK BY FERRY
I am so full.
Somebody has to bear me out of the boat.
Otherwise I won’t make it to the shore.
Oh, the food was delicious!
such big portions!
I am a little bit
afraid of Poland…
I am excited to see
what happens there…
So good
I took a karate
correspondence course.
I reached the daily
target of steps
in just three hours.
So much walking
I did for the last time
in Rzeszow in 1977
We stay at such
a lovely hotel!
Polish food
is delicious!
Gdansk is
a very nice city!
Dinner on-board
– Salad with salmon marinated in dill, spinach, cooked egg and Dijon dressing
– Beefsteak, Béarnaise sauce, potato croquettes, vegetables
– Cherries marinated in brandy with ice-cream
Breakfast on-board
– buffet
Lunch on-board
– Pork chop, fried potatoes, vegetables
Coffee break in Gdansk
– Fruit cake
– Coffee or tea
Dinner – specialties from Gdansk
– Herring in cream
served with home baked bread
– Creamy pea soup with roasted
pumpkin seeds
– Mincemeat cutlet with mushrooms, potatoes and spring salad
– Home baked plum cake
– Water, coffee or tea
We visited and experienced:
– We took a boat to the Hel peninsula.
– We visited the town of Hel.
– We took a walk on the beach.
– We tried Kashubian snuff.
– We studied Kashubian alphabet.
– We took a part in a party.
– We learnt some Kashubian folk dances.
It is so nice
in here!
Fantastic
beaches!
Shall we try
Kashubian snuff?
It’s so tasty!
Here comes my beer!
Finally!
It is so easy to pick
this Kashubian alphabet!
To je krótczi, to je dłëdżi, to kaszëbskô stolëca.
To są basë, to są skrzëpczi, to òznôczô Kaszëba
We visited and experienced:
– We made a walk in Polish Venice.
– We saw the Old Town in Bydgoszcz
– We saw a secret Nazi gun powder factory
DAG Fabrik Bromberg
– We tasted local liquors.
– We learned how to bake gingerbread from Torun.
– We tasted local Polish dishes.
A break
finally!
I will have to go on diet
when we are back at home.
Mine is going
to be bigger!
I was
so good!
My ginger bread is
going to be soooo big!
And then I ate
such a big cake!
It is so nice here.
Cosy!
Don’t eat ginger
bread dough!
But I cannot cope
with that anymore!
Knead dough longer!
We have to be better
than the boys!
See how good I am!
Breakfast in the hotel
- Buffet
Coffee break in Polish Venice
- Fruit cake, coffee and tea
Lunch on the Market Square in Bydgoszcz
- Chicken roulade with mashed potatoes and salad
- Carrot cake, coffee and water
Coffee break
in the Ginger Bread Museum in Torun
- Torun ginger bread, liquor, coffee, tea
Dinner in Torun
- Herring hake jelly
- Oven baked pork with whole wheat and red cabbage
- Fruit salad
- Water, juice, coffee or tea
Breakfast in the hotel - buffet
Lunch in Torun
- Chicken breast in cheese sauce, fried potatoes with herbs, salad
- Apple cake, coffee, juice
Coffee break in Ethnographic Park
- Coffee and biscuits with cranberries
Coffee break in Wojnowo
- Bus café
Dinner in Ruciane-Nida
- Cold starters
- Mushroom soup
- Fish fillet in leek and cream sauce, potatoes and salad
- Muffins with blueberries
- Water, juice, coffee or tea
After Polish cities were plundered by
Swedish troops in 17th century
Copernicus manuscripts have been
kept in Uppsala.
Live forever Gustav II Adolf!
Live forever Karl X Gustav!
Amazing!
Anybody misbehaving
will sit on the donkey.
I will of course make it!
Hotel by the lake
in Ruciane-Nida
We visited and experienced:
– We made a walk in Torun.
- We visited the house where Nicolaus Copernicus was born.
- We checked our innocence at the Leaning Tower in Torun.
- We visited the Old Ritualists’ monastery in Wojnowo.
We visited and experienced:
- We took a cruise on barges down the Biebrza river.
- We grilled Polish sausages.
- We tried local meat products.
- We wandered across wetlands by the Biebrza river.
- We observed the sunset by the lake.
Stop!
Holger is still ashore!
Excuse me,
when the sausages are going to be ready?
It was a nice day...
I sit here
and the others must row 🙂
Coffee tastes best
on the roof.
Follow me!
Breakfast in the hotel
- buffet
Lunch on the barges
- Grilled sausages, local meat products
- Coffee, tea, biscuits
Coffee break in National Park
- Bus café
Dinner in Ruciane-Nida
- Cold starters
- Chicken soup with homemade pasta
- Pork roulade filled with mushrooms served with potatoes and salad
- Home baked cake
- Water, coffee or tea
We visited and experienced:
- We fed animals.
- We visited Hitler’s headquarter.
- We listened to the pipe organ concert
in Swieta Lipka.
- We lived in a castle.
Interval training with sticks,
up and down!
These stairs
I can jump over.
Lie down!
I cannot take you
to Sweden.
I will never forget
this concert!
Overnight stay in the castle of Reszel
Breakfast in the hotel
- Buffet
Lunch in Mikolajki
- Pierogi with pike and bacon
- Coffee, tea, juice
- Pancakes with jam and cream
Coffee break at Wolf’s Liar
- Chocolate cake, coffee
Dinner at the castle of Reszel
- Sour soup with white sausage and egg
- Fried duck legs with apples served with potato pasta and lingonberry
- Plums under brandy foam
- Water, cofee or tea
VISIT IN A VILLAGE OF HERBALISTS
We visited and experienced:
- We climbed the tower of the castle of Reszel.
- We had a walk of Reszel.
- We visited Lidzbark Warminski.
- We had lunch in the castle of Lidzbark.
- We learnt about medicinal herbs from herbalists.
- We tasted nettle soup prepared on a bonfire.
- We got to know who the master in rubber boot casting is.
- We tasted liquors and vegetarian dishes by a lake.
- We enjoyed the landscape of Warmia.
- We saw a herbal garden.
- We attended a party until light at night.
- We drank house liquors.
- We ate homemade regional food.
- We stayed overnight on farms.
First on top!
A magical
place!
I have got
such a big key
that I can use it
as a billy club.
Fantastic!
It was a positive
surprise.
Is this there?
Everybody!
You have to see our room!
It has three levels,
fifteen windows,
thirty five stair steps
and a wild boar carpet on the floor!
We have never slept
in such a large room.
Shall we order
zubrowka?
Why did I say
that I was
on a diet...
Day 1
Gdansk
We experienced:
- The Main Town in Gdansk
- St. Mary’s Church
- Long Street
- Long Market
- Neptune’s Fountain
- The Main Town Hall
- Artus Court
- St. Mary’s Street
- The Great Arsenal
- Piwna Street
- The Long Quay
- Amber shops
Hotel in old army barracks
FROM NYNÄSHAMN TO GDANSK BY FERRY
Dinner aboard
- Salad with salmon marinated in dill, spinach, cooked egg and Dijon dressing
- Beefsteak, Béarnaise sauce, potato croquettes, vegetables
- Cherries marinated in brandy with ice-cream
Breakfast aboard
- Breakfast buffet
Lunch aboard
- Pork chop, fried potatoes, vegetables
Coffee break in Gdansk
- Fruit cake
- Coffee or tea
Dinner – specialties from Gdansk
- Herring in cream served with home baked bread
- Creamy pea soup with roasted pumpkin seeds
- Spring salad
- Home baked plum cake
- Water, coffee or tea
Day 2
Kashubia
We visited and experienced:
- We took a boat to the Hel peninsula.
- We visited the town of Hel.
- We took a walk on the beach.
- We tried Kashubian snuff.
- We studied Kashubian alphabet.
- We took a part in a party.
- We learnt some Kashubian folk dances.
Breakfast in the hotel
- Buffet
Lunch in Hel
- Fried cod fillet with French fries and salad
- Ice-cream, coffee, juice
Kashubian party
- Mustard soup
- Oven baked meat
- Fried herring
- Pierogi
- Salads
- Home baked cakes
- Kashubian cucumber water
- Coffee or tea
- Beer or wine
Day 3
Torun and Bydgoszcz
We visited and experienced:
- We made a walk in Polish Venice.
- We saw the Old Town in Bydgoszcz.
- We saw a secret Nazi gun powder factory – DAG Fabrik Bromberg.
- We tasted local liquors.
- We learned how to bake gingerbread from Torun.
- We tasted local Polish dishes.
Hotel in a gothic merchant house
Breakfast in the hotel
- buffet
Coffee break in Polish Venice
- fruit cake, coffee and tea
Lunch on the Market Square in Bydgoszcz
- Chicken roulade with mashed potatoes and salad
- Carrot cake, coffee and water
Coffee break in the Ginger Bread Museum in Torun
- Torun ginger bread, liquor, coffee, tea
Dinner in Torun
- Herring hake jelly
- Oven baked pork with whole wheat and red cabbage
- Fruit salad
- Water, juice, coffee or tea
Day 4
Torun and the Masurian lakes
We visited and experienced:
- We made a walk in Torun.
- We visited the house where Nicolaus Copernicus was born.
- We checked our innocence at the Leaning Tower in Torun.
- We visited the Old Ritualists’ monastery in Wojnowo.
Breakfast in the hotel
- Buffet
Lunch in Torun
- Chicken breast in cheese sauce, fried potatoes with herbs, salad
- Apple cake, coffee, juice
Coffee break in Ethnographic Park
- Coffee and biscuits with cranberries
Coffee break in Wojnowo
- Bus-café
Dinner in Ruciane-Nida
- Cold starters
- Mushroom soup
- Fish fillet in leek and cream sauce, potatoes and salad
- Muffins with blueberries
- Water, juice, coffee or tea
Hotel by the lake in Ruciane-Nida
Day 5
Cruise with barges on the Biebrza river
We visited and experienced:
- We took a cruise on barges down the Biebrza river.
- We grilled Polish sausages.
- We tried local meat products.
- We wandered across wetlands by the Biebrza river.
- We observed the sunset by the lake.
Breakfast in the hotel
- Buffet
Lunch on the barges
- Grilled sausages, local meat products
- Coffee, tea, biscuits
Coffee break in National Park
- Bus-café
Dinner in Ruciane-Nida
- Cold starters
- Chicken soup with homemade pasta
- Pork roulade filled with mushrooms served with potatoes and salad
- Home baked cake
- Water, coffee or tea
Day 6
Masurian safari, Wolf’s Lair, Swieta Lipka
We visited and experienced:
- We fed animals.
- We visited Hitler’s headquarter.
- We listened to the pipe organ concert in Swieta Lipka.
- We lived in a castle.
Overnight stay in the castle of Reszel
Breakfast in the hotel
- Buffet
Lunch in Mikolajki
- Pierogi with pike and bacon
- Coffee, tea, juice
- Pancakes with jam and cream
Coffee break at Wolf’s Liar
- Chocolate cake, coffee
Dinner at the castle of Reszel
- Sour soup with white sausage and egg
- Fried duck legs with apples served with potato pasta and lingonberry
- Plums under brandy foam
- Water, cofee or tea
Day 7
Reszel, Lidzbark Warminski, visit in a village of herbalists
We visited and experienced:
- We climbed the tower of the castle of Reszel.
- We had a walk of Reszel.
- We visited Lidzbark Warminski.
- We had lunch in the castle of Lidzbark.
- We learnt about medicinal herbs from herbalists.
- We tasted nettle soup prepared on a bonfire.
- We got to know who the master in rubber boot casting is.
- We tasted liquors and vegetarian dishes by a lake.
- We enjoyed the landscape of Warmia.
- We saw a herbal garden.
- We attended a party until light at night.
- We drank house liquors.
- We ate homemade regional food.
- We stayed overnight on farms.
