Gdynia

Today we were in Gdynia Poland. It was a gloriously sunny and warm day. After taking a short bus ride into the center of town, we joined the ship’s chef for a pierogi making lesson at an adorable and authentic restaurant which it is said serves the best pierogis in Poland! There were 15 different varieties and after our shoot the chef made us plenty of all of them. They were so full of flavor and soft with an amazing pork lard and onion sauce! One of the varieties was wild boar and man was it gamey! The mushrooms ones however practically melted in your mouth! When we gorged ourselves on homemade pierogis it was off to shoot around the town. By the way – I do not recommend pierogis for breakfast!

The town on Gdynia has about 750,000 people in it and is so charming. The architecture of centuries old buildings was gorgeous. Wide, large cement porches adorned with elaborate gargoyle rain spouts and cement walls were everywhere. It was truly stunning. We shoot around town and I purchased some beautiful amber jewelry for ¼ the price I would have paid at home!

Now we are back on board headed for another day at sea and we are wrapped for the night. We are headed to the specialty Italian restaurant for dinner, so I better go! More soon! And pictures coming soon!