Gdansk

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  Omega Mum said,

  …and the threat of ‘maybe you will leave as planned, maybe not’ could mean ending the weekend in police custody, I suppose. Well, it would make fascinating blog material, so I reckon that you should give it a go so we can all get a vicarious kick out of it, whatever happens. PS does it have a Tesco yet?

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  dulwichmum said,

  Dear Omega Mum,

  I am really pleased that you seem as puzzled by this as me. I was concerned that perhaps it had become a recent cultural mecca or had a famous opera festival or something. It just seems like a very grim place to visit!

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  beta mum said,

  Gdansk. Grim, but cheap. Venue par excellence for all your stag parties and shopping trips.
  I used to live in Brixton – in a flat above the shops opposite the town hall. Around the time of the riots.
  The clock in the tower used to chime every bloody hour through the night.

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  dulwichmum said,

  Darling Beta Mum,

  I think that Gdansk could in fact be the Brixton of Poland! They could be twinned, both have grim architecture, riots, heavy drinking and squalor.

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  Drunk Mummy said,

  Dear Dulwich Mum, my husband has an uncle who is the exact image of Lech Walesa. He is on several of our wedding photos, along with a few maiden aunts. It makes the whole thing look like a rather festive Solidarity meeting. We still call him “Uncle Lech” (although not to his face).

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  AntiScam said,

  Dear Dulwichmum,

  I thought you were joking about Gdansk, and then I clicked through your link and found you are actually telling the truth. This looks like the weekend destination from hell. How much of what you say is in fact true?

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  dulwichmum said,

  Dearest Pal Drunk Mummy,

  Those wedding photos sounds like a hoot! You should frame them and put them on the piano. My favourite wedding photo is a black and white of myself and my husband emerging from the church after the ceremony. We are closely followed in the porch by two maiden aunts – with cigarettes in hand, clouds of smoke streaming from their nostrels. They were clearly “gasping” as the entire ceremony went on for too long – it is a complete scream! It is framed and takes pride of place, my mother hates that photo.

  Darling Mr Antiscam,

  You should remember, I am always completely serious.

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  Babysteps said,

  I especially like that all the Google ads on this page are now for dodgy Gdansk hotels.

  What’s next, I wonder? Perhaps a leisurely break in Chernobel?

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  dulwichmum said,

  Dear Babysteps,

  Now there is somewhere I had not considered either! – I hear of people wishing to avoid the usual tourist “hot spots” all the time! Chernobel positively ‘radiates’ the word different.

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  debio said,

  Are we so sanitised in our daily lives that the marketeers presume that anywhere might provide some relief?
  Maybe a weekend break to Iraq? or 4 nights in the Gaza strip?

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