Showing posts with label Eight Days of Gdansk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eight Days of Gdansk. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Complete compendium of 2018 travelogues: Porto, Gdansk and Munich.

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Diana and I are exceedingly fortunate to have been able to visit Europe three times in 2018. We're very well matched as travel partner...
Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Eight Days of Gdansk, November 6: The Lenin Shipyards yield to Młode Miasto, or "Young City Gdansk."

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Jeffersonville has something in common with Gdansk. Both cities have extensive tracts of waterside property once devoted to building boats....
Monday, November 05, 2018

Eight Days of Gdansk, November 5: Meet the Kashubians.

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Let's return for a moment to The Tin Drum , the famous novel by Günter Grass, set in Danzig (now Gdansk). The protagonist is Oskar, w...
Sunday, November 04, 2018

Eight Days of Gdansk, November 4: Grodziskie, Baltic Porter and a little bit about beer in Poland.

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The first beer I ever drank in Poland was a lager in 1987 at a mysterious joint in Warsaw, located purely by accident, which defied all e...
Saturday, November 03, 2018

Eight Days of Gdansk, November 3: Food, dining and the institution of the Polish "milk bar."

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The first sentence below encapsulates one of those basic truths that tend to be forgotten in the current era of plentiful food and a glob...
Friday, November 02, 2018

Eight Days of Gdansk, November 2: Marcin Gortat on Polish basketball, and prospects for a game in Tricity.

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A native of Łódź in Poland, Marcin Gortat currently plays for the Los Angeles Clippers. This is Gortat's 13th season in the NBA, and...
Thursday, November 01, 2018

Eight Days of Gdansk, November 1: World War II and Gdansk.

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World War II began the moment the treaty was signed at Versailles, presumably ending the Great War, but actually priming the pump for an ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Eight Days of Gdansk, October 31: Gdansk, Danzig, The Tin Drum and Günter Grass.

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The Tin Drum is a novel about one man's choice of fishing lures. Well, not really, although reading Günter Grass's masterpiece...

Eight Days of Gdansk, Halloween Add-on: "All You Need to Know about Dziady."

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Photo credit. There's an imported tradition as well as an indigenous one. Do Polish people celebrate Halloween? , by Ewelina Nur...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Eight Days of Gdansk, October 30: Gdańsk raises the flag (again) against a wave of populism sweeping Poland.

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I've wanted to visit Gdansk for a very long time, since at least the mid-1980s when Solidarity faced off against the Polish communist...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Eight Days of Gdansk: Prelude to a pilgrimage of Solidarity.

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Back in March, an old obsession gripped me all over again: "It seems to me that if possible, the Confidentials should visit Gdansk soon...