Docked in Gdansk Poland

Both Leslie and I woke up in the two o'clock hour last night with the boat moving the most it has the whole trip long. We were able to get back to sleep but apparently there were strong crosswinds and there was difficulty coming into port this morning.  They had to call an extra tugboat out to get the ship into the harbor and apparently we had to come in backwards.  We met our guide Thomasand Driver and they took us into the Old Town. It was a 20 minute drive made a little longer because there was a triathlon going on. A lot of the roads were closed for the runners bikers and swimmers.

Westerplatte monument in memory of the first casualties of World War II. Polish Defenders here were fired on by German soldiers

Buses and cars lined up for a day's worth of Tours

Approaching Old Town via the harbor

Skipping the ferris wheel

Continuing to skip the ferris wheel

Our first glimpse of Old Town as seen from the green bridge

Gdansk has chosen to renovate buildings that had remains but not build new buildings to look old. As such they have a little bit of old in a little bit of new mixed together

This is an old Harbor crane it could lift items up to seven tons

It could list cargo of stones or beer or even entire ships so that the bottoms could be inspected

Four men would climb into this giant hamster wheel. Two on either side and they would operate the crane that way