GDANSK, JUNE 2011

During the first week-end of June, with my wife we went again to Gdansk, to visit our son living there.
It takes 1650 km, 15 hours, to go there by car, but it's not difficult.
There were two nice days, sunny and hot.
Saturday we toured a hilly region west of Gdansk, "Kashubska", with lakes and forests; at evening, we went to Gdansk historical center, and we had dinner in a typical restaurant with a microbrewery.
On sunday, we went to the Baltic Sea coast, at Leba, a crowded sea resort. I didn't think that early June there could be so many people at the sea such north!
When returning home on monday, we made a short detour after Nurnberg, stopping at Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a very nice medioeval village in the Svevian hills.

BACK TO DUBLIN

At the beginning of June, I returned in Ireland, and I had the chance to stop again in Dublin.
I walked through the town center, saw some monuments, crowded streets with the ubiquitous irish pubs. I stopped (and had a beer ..) in John Mulligan's, The Porterhouse, and The Temple Bar.
Then I had dinner at an irish restaurant (Quays on Temple Bar street).
Again, worth a visit.

A GLIMPSE OF IRELAND

At the end of May, I have been again in Ireland. This time, when traveling from and to the Dublin Airport, I stopped in small places:
- Monasterboice, where there are impressive "celtic crosses"
- Mellifont Abbey, with the ruines of a cistercian abbey
- Drogheda
- and Carlingford, on the Cooley Peninsula.