Tuesday, June 16, 2015

10. Under the banner of heaven, we dream out loud.

Remember when I told you, about my epic plans, about my epic trip, that were epically shattered into epic number of pieces? Actually, this epic trip was truly epic. It took me one month to get over it, I'm lying because I'm not over it yet and now I am finally able to tell you something about a trip to completely detached from reality city of Gdańsk.



The city itself is pretty nice. Not beautiful, as in my opinion Cracow, but very very nice. It also has some magic, but in Gdańsk there is this unique atmosphere of stopped time. Old Town is pretty big. Bigger than we have in Poznań, and much more mysterious.

If you'd like to look for a place to drink with friends till late night, there was maybe one or two. Instead of this you could easily find a man playing his guitar in The Green Gate & join him for a song or few.

Artus Court with Neptune's Fountain.
The fact is that Old Town full of people in a daylight, becomes a city of ghosts after midnight. Incredible contrast. We had only 2 days to discover this place & it wasn't enough.


W booked an apartment right after we knew about new date of the concert. It was hard to find something not that expensive & available for this long weekend, but we did it. Funny fact: the evening before our trip, someone tweeted something that turned out to be real something and we found out that our apartment is right next to band's hotel. We could pass by the hotel every time we were leaving our apartment. You should see faces of two Russian girls when they asked us how long we are walking around the hotel & we told them that we are staying right next to it. It was priceless.

Radisson Blu hotel, view from Długi Targ.
One of our faves was Mariacka Street where you can find stands with various products made of amber. We were walking this street even few times each day.

Stand with amber products on Mariacka Street.
St. Mary's Church, view from Mariacka Street.
Actually, out top of the faves was Motława river with all beautiful buildings & promenade by the river. It looks amazing especially at night. You can eat dinner on board the Black Pearl & who knows, maybe a pirate part of you will awake.

Townhouses by the Motława river.
Black Pearl
Green Gate, view from Green Bridge.

The main part of our trip was concert of obviously Thirty Seconds To Mars. We were extremely excited to see them again in Poland. It's the greatest pleasure to travel, visit new places on the occasion of your favourite band's concert.





The setlist was quite normal. Without any fireworks in the form of rare old school songs from first two albums.. Wait. There was one. They played an acoustic version of From Yesterday, which is one of my two favorite singles.

Intro: Carmina Burana: O Fortuna
1st: Up In The Air

  1. 2nd: Search & Destroy


  2. 3rd: This Is War



  3. 4th: Conquistador



  4. 5th: Kings & Queens



  5. 6th: Do Or Die



  6. 7th: City Of Angels



  7. 8th: End Of All Days



  8. 9th: L490



  9. Acoustic set
  10. 10th: Hurricane
  11. 11th: From Yesterday
  12. 12th: The Kill

  1. 13th: Bright Lights



  2. 14th: The Race



  3. 15th: Closer To The Edge


Top things to remember: Bambi The Deer passing by us at the concert; tv wanted to make an interview with me but I ignored them; our picture on dziennikbaltycki.pl; shared backyard; view from our apartment; and many many more...

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