Forget the family dog...it's family geese here!
At least they fit into the oven at Christmas!
Sadly the pattern repeats eastwards with former German seaports and "colonial-style" coastal resorts still being essentially the same 1000 years later..... just under the Polish flag and jammed with gaudy, trashy tourist flimflam broken by vast stretches of coast locked away to old/ new military installations and some small nature reserves.
There IS some stumping (and deserted) coast and beaches just east of Ustka though...the old Stolpemuende.
You guessed it... where the river Stolpe enters the Baltic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustka
Everywhere around northern Poland....stork's nests!
There isn't much more to say about those ~300km of Polish Baltic Coast, which came as a disappointment after listening to family-stories for the last 60 years who had spent their adolescence through the WW2-years up here and told of their most disparaging as well as their most impressive years of their lives in this part of the world.
I can maybe understand one, but certainly not the other... looking at the place today.
At least they fit into the oven at Christmas!
Sadly the pattern repeats eastwards with former German seaports and "colonial-style" coastal resorts still being essentially the same 1000 years later..... just under the Polish flag and jammed with gaudy, trashy tourist flimflam broken by vast stretches of coast locked away to old/ new military installations and some small nature reserves.
There IS some stumping (and deserted) coast and beaches just east of Ustka though...the old Stolpemuende.
You guessed it... where the river Stolpe enters the Baltic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustka
Everywhere around northern Poland....stork's nests!
There isn't much more to say about those ~300km of Polish Baltic Coast, which came as a disappointment after listening to family-stories for the last 60 years who had spent their adolescence through the WW2-years up here and told of their most disparaging as well as their most impressive years of their lives in this part of the world.
I can maybe understand one, but certainly not the other... looking at the place today.