Conveuropean

Last summer I had the chance to visit again the Island of Usedom and enjoying the baltic sea staying on the Polish side of it, in Świnoujście.

I discovered the baltic sea for the first time last year on a long weekend break and I had such a good time that I was really looking forward to come back and I was able to do it again back in July.

I was able to capture this really nice sky sight, when the sunset was starting and we went to visit Stawa Młyny, a beatiful beacon that was built between 1873–1874 and has a characteristic windwill shape.

A couple of weeks ago I made day trip to Poznan from Berlin. There is a train leaving from the Ostbahnhoff station and arriving in Poznan glowny 3 hours later. Once I got there I started to walk towards the city center and on the way there I found a place selling Pizza that had an amazing margherita, yummy!

I visited the central square and I thought it was beautiful with the old buildings around it, including the renaissance old town hall. There were many ice cream places, bars and restaurants. In the information center they recommended me to visit Ostrów Tumski, an island between the two branches of the river Warta. This island used one of the main political centres in the early Polish state and now it's possible to visit the cathedral that houses some ruins from that era in the subterranean crypt. Very interesting city.

In my fourth visit to Poland I had the chance to visit a very picturesque town at the banks of the vistula river: Kazimierz Dolny. K. Mentioned the town when we were in Switzerland so I was very curious and I was not disappointed at all. The city has a very interesting architecture with former warehouses restored to their former glory. It's also possible to climb a small hill to get a beautiful view of the river and the city center, that you can observe here in this picture taken earlier today.

Almost 2 years ago I spent the Xmas vacation doing a small European trip through Germany, Czech Republic and Poland, finishing it in Krakow, Poland. I took the night train from Prague to Krakow and I had a very good time there with K. celebrating NYE. We went to a nice Jazz concert the last day of 2010 and also I had the chance to taste for the first time the food in the famous Bar mleczny. I also experienced the coldest winter ever. Poland is beautiful, but it can be reallly cold during winter time!

The last weekend of October I had the chance to visit Poland for second time. In this opportunity we went to Gdansk, a beautiful city in the Baltic sea, that was completely destroyed during WWII, but that was very well restored. Here is a picture in Długi Targ (Long Market) showing the Neptune Fountain with the Main Town hall in the background. I highly recommend to visit this city!

Last weekend I went for the first time to Poland to visit K. and we spent one day together in Warsaw. When we were walking towards the old city center I spotted this "Cafe Colombia" that actually served authentic Colombian coffee and that had some nice pictures and decoration inside (even an "hamaca"). I was ready to be surprised by Warsaw, but the Colombian Coffee was not what I was expecting ... a nice surprise though :).