welcome to Gdynia we are here in this beautiful polish port city today exploring around and what
a better place to be than right here on this amazing ferris wheel with this beautiful view
over the amazing port itself let's go and explore Gdynia come on it's just a little bit windy up here
now Gdynia is the third and final city in the tri-cities that we are checking out we're actually
very excited to check this place out we genuinely thought that we would only have time to check out
Gdańsk and just simply because of time restrictions and booking on airbnb and stuff is getting a
little bit expensive obviously it's july and this is the go-to summer area destination in poland
but we are very very happy because all of the tri-cities are very easily accessible
from train we just basically got the inter-city train over here and it literally takes just like
15 to 20 minutes from Gdańsk to get here on the train very cheap very accessible and check this
beautiful place out we have nice weather today thankfully the last few days actually
over the last week we've been getting a lot of summer storms so we've been sitting inside
pondering about how we're going to get videos out but thankfully the sun is out and it's on our side
today so let's go and check this place out more now at the moment here in Gdynia you have an event
going on which is called the sailing weeks so there's loads and loads of people here in the bay
at the moment sailing on their boats around the bay and you have loads and loads of little kind of
stages all over the harbor really with for example music there's a fun fair happening and loads and
loads of things to do so i think it's going to be an amazing day checking out the city of Gdynia
Gdynia is one of the youngest of the tri-cities so you have Gdańsk sopot and Gdynia and Gdynia is
the youngest of the three of them and it's also the youngest city in all of
poland which makes it obviously a very modern city nowadays and it is furthermore the main
port baltic sea port of poland since world war one now there's three beaches that are
worth talking about here in Gdynia there's Plaża Miejska or the main beach of Gdynia there's Plaża
orłowo which is in the orłowo area which apparently has some incredible cliffs
that you can go and check out really wild nature there and then there's also Osada Rybacka
which is supposedly a pretty wild beach area where you can also go and check out pretty conveniently
i believe from Gdynia now we just spent a few minutes wandering around the main beach of Gdynia
and it is a beautiful place the beach is the beach itself is very clean and there's plenty of people
out enjoying their day here it is a very sunny and beautiful saturday afternoon so i can see why
right here we have this incredible ship museum and it's called Statek-muzeum Dar Pomorza
i don't know if i'm pronouncing that one correctly but this is a very interesting ship that has
certainly been through a lot in history it actually circumnavigated around the world
which took roughly around 12 months for it to complete also during world war ii it was
in stockholm in sweden it was also built in hamburg germany and it is a really beautiful
looking ship for sure and i believe there's actually two of these ship museums and
they are kind of the main pull or the main attraction for a lot of people visiting Gdynia
actually just right next to that ship museum that i just spoke about there's another one right
here and it appears to be like a destroyer ship or a ship that carried very a lot of
artillery a lot of weapons and you can see that just at the front they have kind of these like
turret guns or gatling guns at the front and it does look like a very strong ship you do not want
to mess with the people that are on board this vessel there definitely seems to be somewhat of a
torpedo as well on the ship now i have absolutely no idea about the history of this particular
destroyer ship if any of you guys do know please let us know down below in the comments we would
love to hear more about this but it is very interesting very beautiful looking as well the
same as the other ship the other ship just appears to be quite a bit older but this ship nonetheless
is very beautiful and it is also painted in a pretty interesting color as well
it is by the way i just read it there you probably saw me in the back and it is the oldest preserved
destroyer in the entire world so and it was active during world war ii so that's definitely
very interesting there you go guys learn this is why travel is the best education in the world and
this is why we're so grateful to have been able to visit the tri-cities here in poland because
we've learned so much just in the last hour of exploring around this amazing port city area being
here in Gdynia on a busy saturday afternoon with this beautiful weather as well it's truly just
a good time good vibe everybody's just enjoying themselves there's plenty of different markets and
things that you can buy souvenirs wise or if you need some stuff for the beach like this stuff here
you're sorted there's also this big sort of get-together as naomi was saying it is
sailing week so there's plenty of action going on there's so many different rides that you can
go on we saw some pretty crazy ones but we kept it pretty tame by just taking the ferris wheel
i have an awful fear of heights so i'm definitely not going on any of the crazy adrenaline ones and
there's plenty of different places for you to grab a snack or a bite to eat there's literally
food stalls everywhere and now we're going to make our way towards a promenade area just past the
main beach area i just love hearing the people in the back screaming and enjoying their life
it's so funny good time good vibe that's what i'm getting here from Gdynia
as always in most of our videos now here in poland we're gonna just give you guys
a real world view of what the place or destination that we're in
looks like right now so check out beautiful Gdynia on a saturday afternoon in july here you go guys
there's plenty of places that you can go and grab yourself some nice quick fast food snacks
this fritky place actually there's plenty of those fritky places they seem to be very popular
see a lot of people eating them at the moment for sure around the beach areas and everywhere all
over poland you see Gofry yeah those waffles so like belgian waffles with like toppings such
as like ice cream or maybe just cherries or fruit or something like that and you see them all over
poland they seem to be really popular here yeah we actually haven't tried one of those yet so let us
know if they're actually worth trying down in the comments guys but yeah this is what Gdynia looks
like right now plenty of people out and about enjoying their saturday especially this guy here
love corgis
so right now we are on Kamienna Góra which is a very long panoramic walkway just off of the coast
here in Gdynia and you can really see loads and loads of ships going in and out of the
main port here in Gdynia but you can also see all of the ships that are heading towards
Gdańsk which is really really cool to see i think it's a little bit of a pity that we were
so unfortunate with the weather this week and like the entire week that we were here as luke already
said it has been kind of raining on and off and even when it's not raining it is not that warm
and it has been kind of 20 to maybe 25 degrees celsius for the last week so we
didn't really get the chance to enjoy being at the baltic sea and actually go for a swim
i believe there are probably a lot of people that do go for a swim but for us it was a little bit
too cold unfortunately now my first impressions of Gdynia is that it is a very very laid-back city
directly here at the baltic sea and i kind of feel like Gdynia has a lot to offer so if you do love
the ocean and just spend some time by the sea and this is definitely the place for you what i really
appreciate about Gdynia is that you also have the options to enjoy the city life so you do have
larger malls and just like the general city here as well so it is not only a laid back town by the
sea you can also enjoy the city life of it what do you think about Gdynia i love it i think it's
we went and we checked out sopot just yesterday actually so you probably
if you haven't already i hope you've checked out our sopot video and our Gdańsk video as well
this is our third and final tri-city as i said and yeah definitely gives off a new modern style vibe
and when you compare it to places such as Gdańsk Gdańsk obviously has quite a detailed history and
you will find quite a lot of historical buildings in Gdańsk and what i'm finding is the more sort
of away from Gdańsk towards sopot towards Gdynia you find less and less history and more modernization
more sort of buildings that are specifically geared towards tourism and towards you know
attracting people to come to the baltic sea and to enjoy um specific seasons such as the summer now
and you can see that it's definitely doing its job Gdynia has certainly attracted a lot of people we're
hearing a lot of tourists speaking english french german etc scandinavians as well all over the
place here and similar we saw the same in sopot so they're definitely doing the right job the tourist
offices i'm sure are working hard at promoting these specific areas and you
can see what is attracting people here you do have beautiful beaches obviously a lot of the sand
is sort of put there man-made but the beach it's beach itself is impeccably clean the one
that we saw anyways here in Gdynia for me if i was to pick a favorite out of the tri-cities
i immediately would pick sopot and that's just being my honest opinion i would put sopot first
then next up i would probably put Gdańsk and last place actually would be here there's no specific
reason for that it's just a general feeling a general vibe this promenade and everything
around here is fantastic but i think when you compare it to the history in a place such as Gdańsk
the things that you can do in Gdańsk and then similarly in sopot i believe in sopot there is
just in general it gives off a slightly more attractive vibe for me personally speaking
let us know what you think what's your favorite out of the tri-cities but that is my list what's
your list my list would probably be Gdańsk in number one as well but just because i'm very
much as you probably know by now into history and historic architecture so older buildings and stuff
like that so that's why i put Gdańsk in number one number two i would probably put Gdynia and number
three sopot um but Gdynia and sopot are pretty much on the same level actually for me i just feel like
a lot of people in sopot kind of have a lot of money and it is kind of the place to
be and if you're more on the affluent side in terms of your wallet and if you like
Gdynia is a little bit more um for regular people which i feel like makes it very charming yeah 100%
so make sure if you haven't already this is why we're making these videos from poland guys
a lot of people live in europe and i'm myself i'm european naomi european we're both european
citizens and you get a lot of these typical travel destinations during the summer time
such as spain and portugal and greece etc you can the list goes on forever
but very rarely does any of my family friends etc acquaintances say they never really say
oh i'm going to go to the baltic sea in poland for the summer and i suppose why we're making these
videos is just to give you guys a specific insight into what people like us how we
would view these specific areas when you're comparing them to other places that we have
available to us there's a reason why we came to poland and that's because we are genuinely curious
about why not that many other europeans are coming here such as somewhere like spain for example
but i feel like that's generally a pretty big topic on our channel anyway and we're usually
trying to go to the places where people would not necessarily pick it as their number one such
as poland such as albania such as the backlands of mexico where we were before and i feel like
we're just trying to give these places a little bit more of exposure and really show you guys what
these cities have to offer now Gdynia is obviously a lot more than just a pretty port with some nice
beautiful beaches there's plenty of shopping that you can do while you're here in Gdynia as well
and this is one of the main shopping streets called Ulica Świętojańska
all the way down here you just have rows and rows of beautiful shops lots of shopping malls
and it stretches all the way down here as well we actually started the day off in a mall a nice big
mall and we had ourselves a polish buffet as well so don't think that you're going to be short on
things to do when it comes to shopping etc here in Gdynia there's plenty so that was our first
impressions of Gdynia this station that we're in now the Dworzec it's very old very cool looking
but yeah that's it from us for today my name is luke my name is naomi we are the two mad explorers
and this is your reminder to keep exploring see you in the next video guys thanks for watching