A trip to buzzy, historic Gdansk and the spa resort town of Sopot leaves our writer keen to discover more Morning scenery with boats of Gdansk old town in Poland Throw “Lech Walesa” in a word association game and the most likely response will be one of: shipyard, solidarity, Gdansk. Former Polish president Walesa, and the country’s non-violent struggle for unions, was one of the major themes of the 1980s. Reports from Gdansk invariably featured the Solidarnosc activist in the aforementioned shipyard, so what a surprise it was to travel to the port on the Baltic coast and find a gorgeous medieval city with a shipyard filled with buzzy bars and food trucks.
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