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Not going to lie, Gdańsk (with side trips to Sopot and Malbork Castle) is the number one city in Europe I want to see right now. I was in Tallinn last January. Simply amazing medieval city on the Baltic. I hear Gdańsk is up there too for its setting, history, affordability, and beauty and is somewhat underrated. It is often referred to as the Amsterdam of the east. I love the old Hanseatic League and Baltic area cities. Just in the past year and a half I have done Hamburg, Bremen, Tallinn, and Helsinki. I eventually want to get to Lübeck, Flensburg, Stralsund, and Riga. I would have been interested to see Kaliningrad too if not for the fact that almost the entire historic city center was sadly leveled and bulldozed by the Soviets and rebuilt primarily in an ugly blocky Soviet mid-century style. I am obsessed with that whole region.
Awesome. I am going to Tallinn in March, I can't wait.
Gdansk is AMAZING.. Its definitely one of my favorite cities I've been to, you will love it. Very cheap. There are some fantastic deals on Airbnb that are smack dab in the middle of Old town.
Awesome. I am going to Tallinn in March, I can't wait.
Gdansk is AMAZING.. Its definitely one of my favorite cities I've been to, you will love it. Very cheap. There are some fantastic deals on Airbnb that are smack dab in the middle of Old town.
Awesome! You will love it. Below are a few of my best photos from my trip to Finland and Estonia in January. It was kind of cool being in Tallinn in the off season. At times I was the only person on some of those narrow alleys and streets! That combine with the snowy scenery made it an almost dreamy experience. I can only imagine the throngs of tourists around in the Summer which I am glad I was able to avoid. Have a good trip! Yes I must go to Gdansk soon!
I was looking at bus ticket prices on Flixbus from Germany to Poland. I am living in Leipzig, and I can take a bus or train to Dresden, then get on Flixbus that goes direct to Wroclaw (ex Breslau) many times per day. That's a 4 to 5 hour trip. I can visit there a day or two, then take a Flixbus to Krakow. Flixbus ticket prices are 10-20 Euro for each leg of the trip depending on how many days in advance I buy the ticket. That is a fraction of train ticket prices. I pay 17 Euro for a 1 hour train trip to Dresden or Chemnitz.
Now that we are in September and people are back to work and in school, I am going to take some multi-day trips from Leipzig. I have been here since May and have yet to see any crowds of tourists.
The historical centers of Warsaw, Krakow etc have lots of interest and they're somewhat "unique" in the sense that no other country has similar sights
But i really didn't like the castles, brick red castles of central and eastern Europe are not my taste. I prefer the classical grey work that you find south or west of poland (actually west of Germany, as Germany is where the specific misery starts)
Warsaw now has quite an impressive skyline and the city and indeed Poland have seen a massive amount of inward investment since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Although it has also retained a lot of it's history and unique culture at the same time.
Poland also has some amazing and very beautiful countryside, with vast ancient forest with all kinds of wildlife including Wolves, Bears, European Bison, Eurasian Lynx etc.
So it's a country very much worth visiting in terms of it's historic towns and cities as well as it's countryside.
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