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Frosty Poland. |
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| A new shopping mall, the Galeria Bałtycka. |
Tymon's high school in Sopot. |
Sopot. |
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| The Baltic Sea. |
Me and Tymon on the pier. |
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| My pear hot chocolate. The best I've ever had. |
Sister cities of Sopot. |
Bydgoszcz. |
A nativity creche in the town square. |
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| This little section is called "the Venice of Bydgoszcz." |
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Inside the church. |
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| The outside of the church. |
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A memorial in the center of town. Jan says it's controversial. |
A statue balancing over the river. |
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Inside a mall. |
The cat and some mistletoe. |
I helped decorate the tree. |
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| Jan hangs the mistletoe. |
Hektor the dog. |
Odysseus the turtle. |
Sławek's clock collection. |
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| A Polish book that's talking about a universal Turing machine. |
The table set for Wigilia (Christmas Eve). |
Barbara's father Victor. |
Sławek handing out presents. |
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| Barbara. |
My Christmas presents. |
Dominika talking to Beata over the Internet. |
The dome of the Bazylika where we had midnight mass. |
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| Long-exposure LED display. |
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The introligator in Toruń. |
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Look how tall they grow the churches here. |
The basin in which Copernicus was baptized. |
Copernicus street. |
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| Me and Basia by the statue. |
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Merry Christmas! |
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There are three crowns because three kings and queens stayed here. |
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A theater in the shape of a jewelry chest. |
Fortifications and walls built by the Teutonic knights. |
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| Copernicus's house. |
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A dovecot. |
A memorial for Popiełuszko, the slain Solidarność priest. |
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| Dinner at Marysia's. |
Roman, Michał, and Ewa. |
Sławek, Ewa, Michał, me, Marysia, and Roman. |
Adam. |
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Grapes grow in the front yard. |
"Biuromax" means "Officemax." |
The light rail. |
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| The little sign shows you how you should park on the curb. |
This female archer is one of the symbols of Bydgoszcz. |
The philharmonic. |
A tree with a heavy infestation of mistletoe. |
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| A bizarre statue of Copernicus. |
The dollar menu is the three-złotych menu. |
McRoyal. |
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| In an art museum. |
Bromberg is the German name for Bydgoszcz. |
The opera house. |
Solidarność bridge. |
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| This means "no parking." |
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These three granaries are another symbol of Bydgoszcz. |
These telephone poles were interesting to me. |
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| Valeria, Jan, Barbara, and Victor. |
The building of a software company in Gdynia. |
A memorial for a beekeepers' convention. |
A cross on top of Stony Mountain, the highest place in the city. |
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A view of the city. |
Sister cities of Gdynia. |
A memorial for Pope John Paul II. |
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| The battleship Błyskawica. |
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A memorial for Joseph Conrad, who it turns out is Polish. |
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| The beach in Gdynia. |
Świętojańska street. |
A memorial to a Kashubian man. |
A Kashubian couple. |
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| A memorial for Polish Boy Scouts killed in World War II. |
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Me in the woods near the house. |
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It is unusual to see a house decorated on the outside. |
Ciasto, the best thing about Polish breakfasts. |
The memorial to the shipworkers at the Gdańsk shipyards. |
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The famous crane. |
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The Green Gate. |
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| This is what a light switch looks like. |
This is an electrical outlet. |
Kitten... |
Attack! |
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| Another cat. |
A convenience store called Żabka, meaning "little frog." |
At the port in Puck. |
You can see the name of the town in the sidewalk. |
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| The beach on the Hel peninsula. |
A lighthouse. |
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Do not feed the seals your change. |
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| A seal at the Fokarium. |
Here's one peeking through the glass. |
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Maciej considers his move. |
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| Sunlight! |
See how happy I am. |
Malbork castle. |
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You tend to take a lot of pictures when they make you pay for a photo pass. |
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Many parts of it were reconstructed. |
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Other castles in Poland were destroyed completely. |
The underground furnace that provided heated air to the castle. |
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Some costumes of the era. |
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| Notice the cannonball lodged in the wall. |
The area is known for amber. |
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| Armor for a horse. |
See the wings on the back of the armor? They are to scare enemy horses who are unaccustomed to them. |
Jan with the leaders of the Teutonic knights. |
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The pelican on top is feeding its young with its own blood. |
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Inside the damaged sanctuary. |
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A broken statue. |
St. Wojciech, known in English as Adalbert. |
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| Cannonballs. |
Steinbrecht, who reconstructed the castle. |
Tymon and Jan. |
This is interesting. The tea ball in the center is connected by an elbow joint, so when you spin the top, it swings outward and sloshes through the water. |
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| Ewa, Maciej, Dariusz, and me. |
The house in 1935 before all the foliage grew up around it. |
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In Poznań. |
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This is a memorial for a 1956 workers' rebellion. |
The theater. |
