We are in Gdánsk, having arrived yesterday from Poznan. We passed lots of beautiful, green countryside, and managed to avoid the old ladies teetering along on their bicycles. Certain members of our party are vehemently opposed to leaning out car windows to take photos, and forbade the driver from doing so. So a Capp tradition is vanquished....
Gdánsk, formerly Danzig, is a wonderful city, and those readers that might remember the first trip here will have to forgive me if I repeat history or photos. Our flat is on Mariacka street, one that was carefully reconstructed after being bombed in WWII. We are just a few steps from St. Mary's cathedral, the largest brick cathedral in the world, or so boasts the Internet. It is quite large...
Here are a few shots from our walk yesterday afternoon.
Second to last is a palace of some Polish king, with St. Mary's in the background. The picture above features the cats of Gdansk. There is some controversy about the felines in Gdansk stemming from the early 1900s when Gdansk was declared an independent state. The Germans still believed that Danzig should be part of Germany, and in an unsuccessful act of insurgency, imported German cats. Kidding about the cats.
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