Gdansk Zoo; Lechia Gdansk v Podbeskidzie

What a great day. As promised, the Bar Mleczny Turystyczny. opened at 9:00. We had an order of two fried eggs, a bowl of excellent mushroom soup, 2 rolls with cheese, and a bottle of cherry juice for a whopping 10 zł. However, the milk bar had neither milk nor coffee! Then is was off to the train station to book tomorrow's tickets to Bydgoszcz (bid-gosht). Good thing we had cash (84 zł) as they didn't want a credit card at this wicket (in spite of the Visa sign).

Getting to the zoo was simple - a tram to Oliwa and 8 minutes on a bus to the zoo. 18 zł each for entrance - but you had to pay 2 zł for the toilet once inside. It's not a bad zoo but nothing special. At least we had a decent lunch (no McCrap) - cheeseburgers for 7 zł. The best thing was watching the camels mating, The female sat down on the ground and four males took turns servicing her. All the while, she looked totally bored. (SFW)

The it was back on the bus and then the tram. Against Clarisse's advice to go all the way into town to get the tram to the stadium, I decided we could switch trams part way. We found eventually found the other tram line, missed the tram by 30 seconds, and ended up walking all the way to the stadium. It's quite a sight - a huge torus holding over 43,000 covered steeply-pitched seats.

 There were only a few 1000 there as this was only between the local Lechia Gdansk and the almost-bottom-of-the-table about-to-be-relegated Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała. The home team went down 2 goals but finally scored to lose 1-2. Both teams need to learn how to pass the ball.



Don't follow the sign to the tram when you leave the stadium. After a 10 minute walk, I knew we were going in the wrong direction. Backtracking, the tram stop was 5 minutes the other way. Guess what? We just missed one. The delay meant that we probably missed the crush and therefore got a seat. We were back in the hotel by 18:30 and then back to our favourite Wild Perogie. We shared two different pork dishes, one sliced sirloin with chantrelle sauce, the other a rustic, Polish-style roulade. And the chips were from real potatoes, not those horrible frozen things that our hotel served last night. With wine and beer -- 84 zł + 10 for a tip.

For dessert, we picked up two huge chocolate confections (like rum balls without the rum) for 5.2 zł. *yum*

Two hours later, I think this blog is up-to-date.