Really interesting site today, I headed to the Wieliczka Salt Mine. The mine was in operation for over 700 years. All of the salt was dug out by hand and helped fund the kingdom of Poland. The mine is no longer in operation and has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Currently, visitors can…

Sadly, today I left Zakopane to begin making my way to Krakow. I had one stop over before I get there and that was to the city of Gorlice. Don’t bother looking it up in tour books, it’s not going to be in any of them. The whole reason I went is because we believe…

As you may have noticed, I have skipped day 8. This is because day 8 was a dud. I was supposed to take a gondola ride up the mountain south of Zakopane but got to wait for over 3 hours in line instead. The gondola broke down when I was ten feet from the ticket…

Hopefully, this will have been the most driving I’ll have to do in one day. Leaving Toruń at 06:30 I arrived at my first destination of Castle Ogrodzieniec around 11:00. I went to this castle for two reasons. One was to try and break up the drive, it ended up making it longer. Two was…

A bit shorter of a a write up today as I only went one place, the Archaeological Museum of Biskupin. This was one of the first and largest archaeological reserves in Europe and the only one in Poland, when created. The site was found by accident when a local school teacher was walking around the…

My exploration today centered on the town of Toruń. Toruń, like Gdańsk and Malbork, was owned by the Teutonic knights. In fact, the town was founded by the knights who built their first fortification on the ruins of an older fort. This was eventually expanded and later the knights received permission to create a city….

Sadly, today I left the beautiful city of Gdańsk. After picking up my rental car I headed for the town of Toruń with a stop at Malbork Castle. I’ve been looking forward to visiting this castle ever since I started planning the trip. Malbork is the largest castle, by land area, in Europe as well…

Today was museum day. There are two museums that I had heard were must sees, the European Solidarity Museum and the Museum of the Second World War. The Solidarity museum explains the history of the Gdańsk shipyard strike, which was the first successful strike in Poland, and the unsuccessful strikes that had preceded it. Then…

Today started off with a very expensive breakfast. I was a bit lazy so I ate at the hotel this morning at a very ok buffet for around $20. Given that I saw options for close to half that walking around today I found it pricey. I spent a good part of the morning just…

This will be a short post as I have done a lot of traveling today. As the title should indicate, I am visiting Poland on this trip. After, around, 18 hours of travel; I believe I’m the first person in my family to go to Poland in 40-60 years. My great grandfather having come from…