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| On the Długi Targ, in the old city |
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| Sailing boats at the Maritime Museum |
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| JR likes to kiss ears. The town hall is in the background. |
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| On the Baltic |
We visited Gdansk ("Danzig" auf Deutsch) for a couple days last week. We stayed with the Shores, an Olmsted couple in the class after me. Despite only having been in Gdansk for a month, they had already hosted three Olmsted scholars before us. Gdansk is a popular spot! And for good reason. It's a very pretty old city, and being on the Baltic it has the added dimension of having a harbor with a lot of character.
It also has an interesting history. A bit different from Krakow in that it was 90% German up until WWII. It also has a history as a free city, in the sense of being part of the Hanseatic League. For centuries it was a pretty rich and powerful sea port, so it had some autonomy to make up its own rules and govern itself. (That's my reader's digest version -- I'm no history professor.)
