My year in Gdańsk, Poland
Now that it's December, the Christmas season is in full swing. The Gdańsk Christmas market sprung up a week ago with rows and rows of booths selling everything from hot wine, grilled cheese, Christmas ornaments, hats, hot wine, artwork, waffles, Hungarian funnel cakes, and more hot wine. I
Lady Pank Something that living in Gdańsk has allowed me to do is to catch up on all the Polish music I missed while in the US. In the spring before moving here, while visiting Sopot, I saw a poster for Lady Pank. “Lady Pank!” – I exclaimed to my American
More freedom often means less money, so I’m determined to learn to appreciate the simple things in life. Last week I decided to get up early in search of good bread. While I’ve had pretty good bread in Gdańsk, it still wasn’t quite what I remembered from
Just a few days after I moved to Gdańsk with the intention to ponder the meaning of freedom, I saw a poster for an art exhibition exploring that very topic Freedom: Aboveground Dialogue/Wolność: Dialog Nadziemny by Krzysztof Wodiczko. It had an intriguing image of disembodied heads floating above the
“Why Gdańsk?” is the first question everyone asks when I tell them I’m moving there, often while surreptitiously googling where exactly that is. “Do you have family there?” is the natural follow up. “No,” I say. I am from Poland but most of my family lives in Warsaw, which