Visit to Gdańsk - This is Polish and means: A visit to Danzig

After our stop in Danish territory yesterday, today we had to enter Polish territory or rather travel on the waterway.

MSC offered to transport us from the quay to the outskirts of Gdynia, about 1.5 km away, for 8 euros per person, round trip. However, this did not mean that we would then be at Gdynia train station (which would have made sense), in order to then take the train to Danzig. Alternatively, for 47 euros per person, one could book a bus ride directly to Danzig, which did not include a guide, only transport to and from the ship. Since we knew that you could easily travel from Gdynia to Danzig by train, we opted for a slim 3.73 € for the two of us per way for the individual journey to the approximately 20 km distant fourth largest city in Poland.

In the industrial port of Gdynia, it was easy to recognize the product being handled there, which is heavily traded in Poland: coal! The coal dust was visible on the streets and cars throughout the port area.

After about half an hour of walking, we reached the train station in Gdynia. Train tickets could be booked through an app. However, access to the section of the station for the SKM, the train line that leads to Danzig, was not easy to find due to construction work. A young Polish woman we asked unfortunately did not understand English. But somehow she understood where we wanted to go and led us through the station to the appropriate area.

Our half-hour journey brought us safely to the main train station in Danzig.

Here we plunged directly into the famous and very, very worth seeing old town. Despite the city being heavily destroyed in World War II, the Poles have rebuilt the city very beautifully. One does not get the impression that the many houses, which were rebuilt according to the original plans, were of a