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Poland 2018: Gdansk

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Having left Krakow abruptly, I did not prepare myself for Gdansk as I would normally do. I knew that Gdansk (formerly known as Danzig) was a major port. It thrived as a trade center due to its location at the river mouth and on the Baltic Sea. The Teutonic Knights controlled the city whose population […]

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Poland 2018: Krakow

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Coburg, Germany From Prague, I took the night train to Krakow, Poland. My ticket was for a 4-person sleeper. A train conductor checked it and told me to take a different compartment. I looked questioningly at him. ‘You are alone,’ he said. The guy was Czech; he struggled to find English words to explain what

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