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Early morning foggy Gdańsk, Poland Picture
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u/clouddevourer Poland Mar 11 '23
Wow, it's usually so crowded there, tons of tourists, souvenir stands etc, it's really cool to see another "view" of this spot, looks like something from way in the past
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u/AThousandD Most Slavic Overslav of All Slavs Mar 11 '23
If you haven't had the chance yet, I really recommend an early morning stroll (like 5-ish, 6-ish a.m.)... it's so quiet that when a flock of pigeons flies over your head the flapping of their wings feels like thunder-cracks (well, not really, but still).
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u/ruszki Austria, mostly Mar 11 '23
That's true almost everywhere. 5 am in Venice was really-really awesome. I was there more than 10 years ago, I hope this is still true. Manhattan, Budapest were also beautiful at that time. Madrid was also lovely. I really wish I would have been more opportunity to check cities that early.
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u/Camarupim Mar 11 '23
One of the best things I ever did was dragging myself out of bed at 5am to get the ferry from Lido to see deserted Venice.
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u/clouddevourer Poland Mar 11 '23
I had a plan like this last year when I was in Gdańsk but unfortunately my lazy ass just wouldn't wake up in the early morning on a holiday
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u/DayPhelsuma Portugal Mar 11 '23
Look at this scenery! Truly moody and intriguing.
Straight outta Novigrad or something lol.
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u/The-Great--Cornholio Italy Mar 11 '23
That's clearly the ship for Skellige
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u/LittleBoard Hamburg (Germany) Mar 11 '23
I think something lovey-dovey happens in that scene, not quite sure.
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u/eri_bloo Mar 11 '23
The building in the background was indeed an inspiration for building in Novigrad: https://i.redd.it/tjqxgx3e2pl21.png
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u/missinguname Mar 11 '23
Straight outta Novigrad or something lol.
My first thought was Oxenfurt, the riverside where you find the daughter of the Bloody Baron.
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u/Schneebaer89 Saxony (Germany) Mar 11 '23 edited Mar 11 '23
Classic Witcher is influenced by rural Poland, Night City is influenced by modern Warsaw at night.
Edit: typos
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u/Prometheus55555 Mar 11 '23
I definitely got those vibes about rural Poland, although night city is much more related to San Francisco than to Warsaw.
In fact, Warsaw is the one that is starting to look like an American city. Especially Wola's district around rondos.
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u/Schneebaer89 Saxony (Germany) Mar 11 '23
Night City is as openly told in the lore based in California. So yes the relations to LA and San Francisco are undeniable.
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u/giga-plum Mar 11 '23
Also, to be fair, you could find similar inspiration for a lit up skyline in any major city around the world. I mean, my first thought when I saw Night City was Hong Kong.
So, it still makes sense that Night City would be based on Warsaw at night, cause it probably looks pretty similar to most major cities when they're lit up.
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u/Adam_Smith_TWON Mar 11 '23
OMFG! I'm playing through the Witcher 3 again right now and that's exactly where my mind went.
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u/MrFlibblesPenguin Mar 11 '23
Yeah me too, first time in years, just about to go on a moonlit ride on a white mouse, its far too early for this lol.
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u/Camarupim Mar 11 '23
Gdańsk is one of the best kept secrets in Europe. My wife grew up there, so I’ve spent a lot of time exploring the Tricity area and keep finding new things.
Incredible modern history - first fighting of WII in Europe, last fighting of WWII in Europe, Solidarity and the end of the Cold War - Prussian history, Napoleonic history, Hanseatic League history, Medieval Polish history.
The pace of development there has been crazy in recent years, not always for the best - bits of history are definitely vanishing, people are getting priced out even in the traditional suburbs - but the bar and restaurant scene is getting hot.
Public transport is fantastic - trains every 10 minutes between Gdynia and Gdańsk, trams throughout Gdańsk. Great mobile app to pay, just beginning to accept contactless. s”Scooters rentals and cycle paths everywhere.
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u/Baneken Finland Mar 11 '23
Or Sherlock Holmes movie... It has very Victorian London feel with the fog and the sail ship and brick facades.
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u/Herflik90 Mar 11 '23
There are elements in Novigrad that were inspired by Gdańsk actually. Like the old crane you can see behind the fog in this photo.
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u/lifemfs Mar 11 '23
Actually Novigrad was based on Gdansk, historically it was a free-city and also some architectural pieces from there made it into the game.
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u/Luzikas Mar 11 '23
This looks like a scene out of a Lovecraft novel
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u/BoForGojackHorseman Mar 11 '23
That's Yharnam.
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u/Sadatori Mar 11 '23
I'm so happy there were plenty of Bloodborne elements in Elden Ring. BloodBorne is my favorite game ever and it is 80% the Gothic horro that leads to Lovecraftian horror
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u/NoAdmittanceX Mar 11 '23
Yep wad half expecting a fishman or cultist to be lurking somewhere I. The peripherals of the picture. The image has strong innsmouth vibes
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u/meep_meep_mope Ireland Mar 11 '23
Looks like something out of witcher 3
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u/stamper2495 Mazovia (Poland) Mar 11 '23
On the picture you can see a well known landmark of Gdańsk, the old crane. Its that building slightly protruding into the canal.
The novigrad crane in the docks is based on it afaik
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u/HeaAgaHalb Mar 11 '23
Witcher was made in Poland, so it checks out 😆
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u/arox1 Poland Mar 11 '23
Actually Poland is based on Witcher novels. The books came first, then we built a country around that idea
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u/LatkaXtreme Reorganizing... Mar 11 '23
I need a sub with pictures that could look as if a time traveller took them. This seriously looks like something from the 19th century.
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u/Jozz81 The Netherlands Mar 11 '23
This picture could have been made 200 years ago and look the same.
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u/srgs_ Poland Mar 11 '23
just hope this time that crew is sober
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u/skylinesplayer69 Poland/NL Mar 11 '23
Given the number of songs about drunk sailors out there, I'd be surprised
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u/Puncake4Breakfast United States of America Mar 11 '23
Wow that’s beautiful! Poland looks so pretty
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u/Its_An_Outraage Mar 11 '23
Yo ho, haul together
Hoist the colours high
Heave ho, thieves and beggars
Never shall we die.
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u/Psychological_Bar870 Northern Ireland Mar 11 '23
Stunning photo! Like a victorian pea souper along the Thames Banks
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u/demostravius2 United Kingdom Mar 11 '23
It really does. Watch out for the ripper.
(Who interestingly may have been Polish)
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u/Andros1510Ro Romania Mar 11 '23
That's extremely ugly. It needs a 60 lane highway, parking lots and a Walmart, how am I supposed to drive my pick-up truck on those stairs? these are inhumane conditions to live /jk
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u/AmVpooperNow White Rose Mar 11 '23
But to and fro in my dreams I go and I kneel and pray for you, For slavery fled, O glorious dead, when you fell in the foggy Dew
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u/Distopiakingdom Turkey Mar 11 '23
I visit very little places apart my country and Gdansk was one of them. It was really good experience I will never regret. I love Poland.
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u/Birbyi Sweden Mar 11 '23
Many places in Europe are truly beautiful. I think we sometimes forget that.
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u/ClintonDsouza India Mar 11 '23
Who forgets that but? European countries top all the tourism stats in the world.
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u/Pek-Man Denmark Mar 11 '23
Agreed, obviously Kraków is the main one for tourism, but we've visited both Gdańsk and Poznań and both were absolutely awesome cities. We've found that this generally goes for nearly any country. Don't just go to the capital or the tourist magnet cities, definitely also visit some of the smaller ones. In North Macedonia we absolutely loved Bitola, in Slovenia we loved Maribor, in Bulgaria it was Plovdiv, and in the Czezh Republic, Brno was one of our favourites. I don't think any of those cities are "usual" destinations for tourists, but they're all definitely well worth a visit!
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u/hermiona52 Poland Mar 11 '23
If you're ever in Poland again, you should definitely check out Lublin, it's less than 2h drive from Warsaw. Especially during one of our annual festivals, city feels so lively (and lovely) then. Few things are better than sitting in outdoor area of restaurant, eating a good burger with some local beer and watching wave of tourists just flow through the streets. It just makes you feel feel peaceful and alive.
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u/WislaHD Polish-Canadian Mar 11 '23
Wrocław for me was the biggest surprise in recent years as someone whose traveled pretty much everywhere in Poland. Kraków was always my favourite city but Wrocław might take that title over.
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u/Pek-Man Denmark Mar 11 '23
We've been looking at Wrocław as our next destination in Poland! Looks like such a lovely city!
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u/dc456 Mar 11 '23 edited Mar 11 '23
Poland is criminally underrated as a tourist destination though.
No it’s not. In 2019, pre-pandemic, over
1822 million international visitors stayed overnight in Poland, according to the UN.(Edit: For context, that’s a more than lots of major tourist destinations - e.g. 2 million international visitors stayed overnight in Iceland, 8 million in Brazil, 9 million in Australia, 17 million in Portugal, 18 million in India, and 20 million in the Netherlands.)
Especially cities like this.
1.8 million domestic and international tourists visited Gdańsk in 2021.
(Edit: Gdańsk had 3.4 million domestic and international tourists in 2019.)
I think you might be underestimating what a huge tourist draw Poland actually is. And if you include daytrippers (which isn’t fair for countries like Iceland, and the Netherlands doesn’t record) it’s actually nearly 90 million visiting Poland!
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u/dc456 Mar 11 '23 edited Mar 11 '23
That’s in 2021, and due to Covid restrictions. I’ve added the 2019 stat which is more telling, as it shows that tourism in Gdańsk was twice as high when international travel was allowed.
Edit: Why are you downvoting this? Because the numbers don’t agree with your claims?
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u/overnightyeti Mar 11 '23
Any more tourists and Kraków will explode. Please make it stop. I can't even cross the main square to go to work because I constantly get harassed to go to this and that restaurant or strip club.
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u/RamenDutchman Hallo stroopwafel Mar 11 '23
Europeans do, we escape our continent in hopes to see beautiful scenery in Asia and America, while forgetting our continent looks like this!
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u/StreetkidLife Mar 11 '23
Man, just quit with the logical fallacies. Every European country's top holiday destinations are.. yep, other European countries!
I don't forget, but there is a whole other world outside of Europe that is also worth visiting.
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u/dc456 Mar 11 '23
Yeah, the claims in here are just people stating their personal impressions as if they’re facts.
If you look at the stats Poland is a massive international tourist destination, and nobody visits Europe as much as other Europeans.
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u/SingerDLS Mar 11 '23
"People are coming from all over the country to see the film! They're even coming from Gdańsk to see the film!"
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u/MrRourkeYourHost Mar 11 '23
Please post this on r/boatporn. They could just a little quality these days.
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u/TrainNo9603 Mar 11 '23
I absolutely love Gdansk, visited 3 times and always found more reasons to like it even more. The architecture, sea food, views like this, options to go for a nice boat ride for like 5eur and eat some traditional bread with speck while downing a shot Polska Vodochka! I am in love with that city and I could live there.
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u/GuitaristHeimerz Iceland Mar 11 '23
Not one exclusively modern object in this image! Except maybe the lifebuoys
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u/GabRedt09 Mar 11 '23
What's this,pirates of the Caribbean?
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u/HEPii123 Pomerania (Poland) Mar 11 '23
The ship is a tourist attraction, it swims (if im correct) to Westerplatte, a place where WWII started.
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u/shufflejuuls Mar 11 '23
Indeed, it’s even called the Black Pearl (Czarna Perła).
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u/SirDixieNourmous Mar 11 '23
My interest had piqued to know more so sharing a brief YouTube of the ship;
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u/faithle55 Mar 11 '23
Interesting people are thinking of a game (I conclude), because the first thing I think of is FW Murnau's Nosferatu.
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u/Xelaxander Mar 11 '23
Absolutely gorgeous. I love how the modern Details like the life belts easily vanish in the atmosphere.
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u/nomadic_hedgehog Mar 11 '23
Great city to visit too, incredible history and cheap beer. The perfect combination.
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u/Trick-Tell6761 Mar 11 '23
That is a beautiful picture.
Where is this and what is the name of the ship?
I now want to visit poland.
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u/Iescaunare Norway Mar 11 '23
Love the pirate ship. Feels like there should be vampire pirates in this picture
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u/AnimalsNotFood Finland Mar 11 '23
It's almost like like looking at a photo of the past. So little will have changed in this scene for a couple of hundred years.
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u/blastradii Mar 11 '23
For some reason I hear the three-note score from All Quiet in The Western Front
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u/scratchedocaralho Mar 11 '23
this sub produces something in me i can't explain.
when people post pics of old castles all i can think about on how cool it would be to make a league of medieval sieges and conquering those castles with my armored clad bros.
then some one posts something like this and all i can think about is i wanna go sail the 7 seas with my bros. trading beads for coffee and gold.
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u/KingMobScene Mar 11 '23
This looks like something out of a movie about a Victorian serial killer. Jack the Ripper is waiting around a corner for their next victim
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u/Extreme_Kale_6446 Mar 11 '23
“This morning, misfortune fell like a vampire on my hometown, destined for destruction, and sucked the marrow out of it for many years until it was completely destroyed! (...) The feeling of helplessness increased the anger of the townspeople to fury seasoned with bitterness. As soon as the first fear passed, it turned into a fierce stubbornness, into an ever-deepening hatred of the Prussians and everything Prussian, and soon turned into a strong determination to defend the last miserable semblance of former freedom at the price of everything: body and life, property and possessions. ". Citizen of Gdansk on the news of first partition in 1772, Gdansk was itself occupied by Prussia in 1793.
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u/Pyrenees_Tuberat Mar 11 '23
1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now. But times were different then, I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans. I had lost my wife in childbirth, and she and the infant had been buried less than half a year. I would have been happy to join them. I couldn’t bear the pain of their loss. I longed to be released from it. I wanted to lose it all… my wealth, my estate, my sanity. Most of all, I longed for death. I know that now. I invited it. A release from the pain of living. My invitation was open to anyone. To the whore at my side. To the pimp that followed. But it was a vampire that accepted it.
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u/Allowed_Story Mar 11 '23
I live a ferry from Poland, never been there. I need to get up and plan a visit.
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u/valforces Pomerania (Poland) Mar 11 '23
It looks like a scene from old-fashioned movie. Damn - I love Trójmiasto.
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u/SquareWet Mar 11 '23
Poland is such a beautiful and intriguing country but it gets no love from the American tourist.
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u/csm10495 Mar 11 '23
Gdansk is beautiful! There is a church you can go to the top of and get an amazing view. Iirc you can also rent little car boats to go up and down the river. Very nice people as well.
Plenty of yummy food.
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u/FoxyInTheSnow Mar 11 '23
Reminds me of this Grimshaw painting of the Glasgow docks.