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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