Temat: Market your town
I was too lazy to contribute, but now feel guilty. It's Gdańsk and the whole of 3city after all. So.
Sylwia Łubkowska:
Imagine someone from Anglosphere would like to go and visit your place (for a weekend). What would you recommend in terms of:
a) sights
- When showing people around, I always encourage them to climb (not too much climbing really) the Archeological Museum tower in St. Mary's Street (instead of St. Mary Church cruelly high tower packed with tourists - it's worth doing and can be impressive, though). The view is beautiful and it feels as if you could just stretch your hand and touch a roof nearby (not possible at St. Mary's).
- All landmarks from guidebooks. Absolutely. Just to whet your appetite:
Gdańsk:
Sopot:
Gdynia:
![Obrazek](https://www.goldenline.pl/img/ajax-loader.gif)
(In fact, sth. also to see in Szczecin, Warren just forgot.)
b) culture
FETA Festival is just on
Ladies' Jazz Festival in Gdynia is just over and so is Open'er.
Shakespeare Festival is coming, and so is Jarmark Dominikański.
I don't recommend Sopot Festival though it's all a matter of taste.
Apart from that - theatres, concerts, etc. all year round.
c) shopping
Galeria Bałtycka in Gdańsk, obviously, big enough to suck life out of you.
Sopot, Al. Niepodległości is a place where a bunch of my favourite secondhands is located.
d) food
Sopot is packed with less and more expensive places to eat as well as cafes to drink. 'Sanatorium' and 'Zielony Dwór' are nice places to dine and 'Józef K.' and 'Błękitny Pudel' to chat over a coffee. Practically no chance to get a seat summer evening. I don't really eat out in Gdańsk or Gdynia, but my favourite cafe in Gdańsk is 'PiKawa' in Piwna Street. I recommend those cafes only if you like 'a grandma attic' interiors and dusty armchairs. Apart from these more decent places, it's Greenway, also available in some other Polish cities, which keeps me alive.
e) other 'must do' things (if any).
It depends on who you are.
For many, a must is a visit to Westerplatte, of course.
But you may choose to take a boat trip to Hel to see the seals instead.
You may feel it's a must to visit the Oliwa Cathedral to listen to the organ concert and to take a walk in the old Oliwa Park.
Or Gdańsk National Museum for a famous and impressive 'The Last Jugement' by Memling.
In Sopot, I drag my guests to streets a bit off crowded Monciak promenade to imagine what a spa town during belle epoque and the twenties looked like.
Only it's rainy now and when it's rainy in a seaside city, it's really sad. If you don't show up early, and I mean early, enough, all the lovely cafes are packed with people pissed off that they cannot fry themselves brown in the beach. Galeria Bałtycka must do and that's even sadder.
Kamila G. edytował(a) ten post dnia 17.07.08 o godzinie 18:39