Evening brings color to Old Town Gdansk (all photos by author)

LIFE THROUGH THE LENS OF MY CAMERA

Country Mice Travel to Gdansk

Our itinerary is simple: enjoy a hotel room with a view, walk streets that remind of old Amsterdam, poke into the small shops, and dine along the river.

Jesse R. Barker
5 min readDec 2, 2022

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We live in a rural area on the Polish Baltic coast. It’s a charming quiet place, but sometimes we need to escape. So, we, the country mice, make our quarterly trek to a city in Poland to mingle with the city mice. This time our pick was to return to the port city of Gdansk, Poland. A city that is tied to the Baltic Sea by the the meandering channels formed by the confluence of the Motława, Martwa Wisła and Vistula Rivers. We have periodically visited the city over the years and each new visit finds delightful changes as Gdansk continues to refine its urban character.

The dark dark waters of the Motława flow through Old Town (photo by author)

Our itinerary for this trip is simple: enjoy a hotel room with a view of the river, walk streets lined with buildings that remind you of old Amsterdam, poke into the small shops selling local wares, and dine along the river boardwalk.

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Jesse R. Barker

Retired these days but still working to improve myself. An avid photographer I am always learning to look at the world in new ways while telling a good story.