Aug.11, 2001
10:00 Waiting on tour to begin. Lots of rushing. Maybe they should post boarding times.
10:20 Thomas is our guide and the swordsman is our bus driver. We will drive for hours.
12:05 Malbork Castle. Gothic != Medieval. Hey. You can buy weapons here. Hot dogs.
15:05 Cole slaw. Meat wrap for lunch. Where can I get Polish sausage?

This was one of the more surreal days of the vacation. We were in Poland visiting Gdansk. Our tour guide was a nice fellow. He took us to Malbork Castle home of some Teutonic Knights. It was interesting, but I not as cool as I would've thought. We had a lunch which it seemed that only I liked. It was a mash up of beef and pork flattened and rolled into a wrap with a side of some grain that I don't know what it was. During lunch an elderly gentleman kept complaining about not getting a kielbasa. I wanted to tell him to just go to the snack shack in front of the castle and get yourself one. Walter could've continued his great Red Pulser Tour 2001 here by doing just that.

Anyway, we ended up shopping for amber in Gdansk wandering around looking for kielbasa. On the bus ride home, Thomas tells us the horrific story of his mother's survival from the Nazi concentration camps. I think we gave him a big tip.

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