We've been to Hel and back
No, we haven't spelt it wrong... it's a town in far northern Poland!
It's actually a pretty unexciting place. With a beach, an old church (a sign inside reads - "spreading the word of God in Hel"!!!), a seal aquarium, and a pier... but it does have some pretty hellish elements - like this barbed wire covered waterslide!!
We leave Gdansk today for Warsaw. Gdansk was the starting place for WWII, and most of it was destroyed in the war, but a lot has been rebuilt exactly as it was originally.
Gdansk is also famous for Goldwasser - a liquer with flakes of 22 karat gold floating in it. The story goes that Neptune (the photo below) decided to reward the people in the town who were always throwing gold coins into his fountain, by turning the fountain water into alcohol, and the coins ended up in flakes... thus "Goldwasser" (Gold Water). We're hoping to bring some home, as long as we don't drink it on the way!
posted by Emily @ 6:54 pm
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2 Comments:
Hel!!!! Well who would have thought it, it looks a lovely place on that board but I guess they don't like people using their Water Slide eh? Love those buildings, they sort of look a bit Dutch I think.
Love to you both, Pennie
"Hel" doesn't look to bad after all!!!, but those raspberries take the cake ...did you eat them all Gwil?
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