Senior tour to Poland

Senior tour to Poland

TOUR OF NORTHERN POLAND – POMMERANIA, WARMIA, MASURIA, PODLACHIA
SPF Seniors Västerhaninge – September 2015

OUR HAPPY TEAM


Janne
Dieter
Dieter
Oskar
Oskar
Iren
Iren
Karin
Karin
Staffan
Staffan
Staffan
Staffan
Gunnar
Gunnar
Lisbeth
Lisbeth
Per-Olof
Per-Olof
Inga Britt
Inga Britt
Holger
Holger
Hans
Hans
Staffan
Staffan
Ulla Märta
Ulla Märta
Bo
Bo
Eva
Eva
Sture
Sture
Ingegerd
Ingegerd
Brigitta
Birgitta
Gunvor
Gunvor
Birgitta
Birgitta
Mariusz
Mariusz
Tomek
Tomek

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

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

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…

Unbelievably cheap beer!
And so good, too!
I need another round!

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

He danced the whole
evening and is still
not tired. Amazing!
Nice view!

We stay at such

a lovely hotel!

Poland is
so nice!

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

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.


Hel peninsula fot. Kacper Kowalski / KFP
It is so clean in here!

It is so nice

in here!

Fantastic

beaches!

Shall we try

Kashubian snuff?

Try those pierogi!

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

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.

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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



Day 4 TORUN AND THE MASURIAN LAKES

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.


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...

OUR HAPPY TEAM

Janne
Janne
Dieter
Dieter
Oskar
Oskar
Iren
Iren
Karin
Karin
Staffan
Staffan
Staffan
Staffan
Gunnar
Gunnar
Lisbeth
Lisbeth
Per-Olof
Per-Olof
Inga Britt
Inga Britt
Holger
Holger
Hans
Hans
Staffan
Staffan
Ulla Märta
Ulla Märta
Bo
Bo
Eva
Eva
Sture
Sture
Ingegerd
Ingegerd
Brigitta
Birgitta
Gunvor
Gunvor
Birgitta
Birgitta
Mariusz
Mariusz
Tomek
Tomek

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.
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