Right after I returned home from my Erasmus adventures I had four days to unpack my suitcase and pack it up again because I was about to leave for my architectural internship in Gdynia. I have spent four weeks in there, living in Gdańsk and commuting to Gdynia every day.

It was a good time. I had a fantastic flatmate and the Tricity is a brilliant place to live, so vibrant and full of charming places to go. With the beach about 3 kilometers away from the flat I lived in and the office with a direct view to the harbour and sea. I have spent most time of the day in the office, however i did not cease to wander around after hours. Here you can see a collection of various shots I did in these days in chronological order. I was in many places - in Gdańsk beaches, Gdańsk Old town, Gdańsk Oliwa park, Gdańsk Zoo, Gdynia, Sopot.

Enjoy, the post is very long!

Starting from Gdańsk. It is probably no.1 summer holiday destination in Poland due to it's attractive seaside location, lovely old town and enormous historical herritage. The city is crammed with tourists, both Polish and international. Back in the middle ages it used to be a very wealthy and independant merchant city and for that reason it's old town was always very rich and well maintained. For the history lovers I highly reccomend the World War II and Solidarność museums, both of them are brand new and architecturally impressive.
 
Summertime madness gathers up on the beaches, though. On a hot day on the weekend it is sometimes impossible to find some free space on the beach to place your towels among all the people that are already there. There is a number of beaches spreading on the whole length of the Tricity and one can easily walk from Gdańsk to Sopot or even to Gdynia following the coastline only.



Here I had a walk around Wrzeszcz district. Fun fact - Wrzeszcz literally can be translated in Polish as a command "scream!". Yeah. Anyway, it's full of nice-but-not-too-fancy old buildings.






And here's central Gdańsk.










Oh, there's another Gdańsk district that is called Oliwa. It's famous for it's big and elegant park with a palace, palm-garden and just a bunch of nice paths to enjoy your walk. And a Zoo.

Oliwa Cathedral is a church that is definitely worth visiting. With it's sublime white interiors hidden inside thick brick walls it's a good stop to cool down on a hot day.








 








Gdynia there is a different story. It's the yougnest part of the Tricity and probably one of the youngest cities in Poland. In the 1900s it was merely a fishermen village. At that time there was a need of building big harbours and shipyards that would operate the Tricity but Gdańsk and Sopot had no more space for that within their borders. A decision was made that all the facilities will be placed in Gdynia, and the town has developed rapidly into a industrial city. Most of the buildings were raised after 1920s when the modernists were ruling the architectural trends, which gave Gdynia its ornament-less and modern character.

Pay attention to all the rounded parts of the buildings, it's the most Gdynian the architecture can get.