Toruń is a lovely small, old town,
that I always recommend to visit in Poland.
Why? – Because of its diverse architecture, Teutonic Castle, gingerbread, Nicolaus Copernicus, and many more. 🙂
The only drawback – in summer months Toruń may be quite crowded.
Many Polish people (including me) love to pick up (edible) mushrooms in forest.
The mushrooms from today’s picture should stay where they are,
there are many other eatable (more than once 😉 ) mushrooms.
Poland has lots of forest,
however, these days, forest may not be treated well… 🙁
Giewont is not the highest mountain in Poland, it’s only 1895 m above sea level.
However, it’s very well known in Poland, because it looks like a sleeping knight.
p.s. the legend says he will wake up when Poland is in danger.
The Tatra Mountains (part of the Carpathian Mountains) is a mountain range that’s located between Slovakia and Poland.
The highest Polish peak (2499 m above sea level) belongs to Tatra
(on Slovakian side it has a bit higher peak – 2503 m).
To simplify, the central part of Poland is flat,
sea is in the north, mountains are in the south part of Poland.
There are two main mountain ranges: the Sudetes and Carpathian mountains; all beautiful. 🙂
You may meet jellyfish in the Baltic sea.
Mostly, they are completely not harmful to people.
But there is also a kind of sea jellies in the Baltic Sea that you should avoid, however it’s very unlikely to see it.
When I was a child, everyone was saying, thet “our” jellyfish are not harmful; it’s almost always the case; but it doesn’t mean 100%.
There are three kinds of seals living in Baltic sea:
-the harbor seal (or common seal),
-the grey seal,
-the ringed seal.
Actually, the most common is the grey seal, seen in today’s picture.
If you’d like to learn more about seals, visit the seal sanctuary in Hel, Poland.
Nearby the town of Łeba, you can visit the nation park with sand dunes.
It’s a very nice and unique place in Poland.
I think, we were going relatively often to the coast, when I was a child.
Somehow, I always have this image in the front of my head – sand and pink roses.
I’m sure, you can still see in Poland, many bushes with roses close to beaches.
The Baltic Sea (called by a few countries as “East Sea”) is a sea enclosed by 9 European countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Russia, and Sweden.
The Wieliczka Salt Mine is one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
It’s a mine, so you can visit typical “things” you would expect to find in a mine.
On the other hand, it’s like a museum, with many exhibitions made of salt, there is even a chapel.
It’s located nearby Cracow, so definitely visit the mine while being in Cracow.
For details, check the official website of the Wieliczka Salt Mine.
Vodka apparently seems to be a Polish or Russian traditional alcohol;
well, there is some truth in it…
But there are other alcoholic drinks also popular in Poland,
of course variety of beers,
and mead (Polish: miód pitny what literally means a “drinkable honey”).
I think, mead should have a position number one, it’s a Polish traditional alcoholic beverage, introduced already in Middle Ages.
When your’e in Poland, try mead!
Check maybe the wikipedia website for suggestions which one to choose.
Cracow (in Polish: Kraków) is one of the most beautiful cities in Poland,
and I highly recommend you to go there!
Just be aware, that since some years, Cracow is a very popular tourist destination, it maybe overcrowded, so maybe it lost some of its charm (?).
Anyway, if you’re bored with Cracow, go to nearby Oświęcim (very importnat place, known for known for being the site of the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp) and Wieliczka Salt Mine;
or a bit farther – go to mountains.
Poland has (in the season) the largest white stork population in Europe.
Whenever I was spending summer close to nature, or even driving somewhere, I’ve always seen a stork, or at least a few a day. 🙂
Winter can be magical,
but often is also “dirty and muddy”.
People usually joke in Poland, that winter surprised people who clean the streets,
i.e., roads are not prepared, because who expects to have snow in January = in the middle of winter… 😉
I love autumn in Poland when the weather is still nice, and all trees look so colourful.
Of course, autumn has also other side – cold, rainy, windy, depressing.
Summer in Poland should be hot, sunny with thunder storms from time to time. 😉
Well, it can be also rainy and not nice; difficult to predict…
I love spring with sunny days, full of flowers.
I also think, that spring is the best period to visit Poland, especially May. 🙂
Poland has a typical continental climate, with 4 seasons, i.e., spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
The north part of Poland (coast) has rather oceanic climate,
and in the south (mountains) the weather is slightly different;
but in general we have 4 seasons.
Actually, as a child, I thought that each country has 4 seasons, and in each country are mountains, sea, forest, lakes, desert – just everything in different proportions. 😀