First day in Polski

It's time to go to Poland. Unfortunately this involves getting up at 3am which didn't make us very happy.

Mark had a tight agenda timed to the minute to get us onto the plane. Kerri mostly moaned about this in between drinking the largest cup of coffee in the world (it came with it's own tray).

At security it was deemed that Kerri's bags were too heavy and large so some organisation of the cases was needed which screwed up Mark's schedule.
Also we had to remove our shoes, this meant that Kerri had to strut around the airport in cow print socks.

The plane journey went pretty fast, in fact we landed early, go Ryan Air! We were delayed however as in our excitement we left Departures before collecting Kerri's oversized pink luggage. Security wouldn't let us back in so we went to Lost and Found. The nice man there calmly informed Kerri that her luggage didn't make it from Birmingham. Kerri was not calm about this. Luckily the nice man was an idiot and didn't know what he was talking about and the case turned up 5 mins later.

We were soon at the apartment which is nice, Thomaz who owns the place showed us several times how the door lock works which is good really, as we don't have those in Blighty.

Food was in order so we wandered around, on the way we passed several dozen people all selling amber. Every shop here sells amber, people sell it outside their house, market stalls sell it. Basically the whole amber industry is saturated, why does everyone sell the same thing? Someone should start selling hats or something, they'd clear up. We soon found a nice looking restaurant next to a river. After a bout of slow service we tucked into our grub and then a pirate ship pulled up. 10 mins later we were on a pirate ship sailing to Westerplatte (yarr!). The trip there was very interesting and we passed many a sight. Unfortunately our guide only spoke German so we had no clue WTF was going on and spent the whole trip pretending to be pirates.

Westerplatte was where the first shots of WWII were fired. Kerri re-enacted this for the tour party, they were mostly impressed. Oh did I forget to mention that several beers had been consumed by this time. Bad times for the Polish although apparently they put up a good fight. Not so sure about that, perhaps they're being a little bit biased as the general understanding is that they got their asses kicked a little bit.

We caught a different pirate ship back, it seems there are a lot of pirate ships in Gdansk!

Following our pirate adventures we grabbed an ice-cream. These were served in thimble sized cones but held 2 tonnes of ice-cream. As we tried to eat these we saw someone wearing clogs, this was funny but we're pretty sure she didn't cotton on to us taking the mick out of her (maybe not).

It was time for more beers after that and some more noms. Food wasn't great so we just got hammered. Don't remember much after that.