SWINOUJSCIE? Where?? You'll find out.
We were up before 5:00, our earliest day, and were at the station at 6:01. We caught a train back into Sweden, but not quite as far as Malmo. We changed at Hyllie, then headed south to the coast at Trelleborg. This is where a roll-on-roll-off ferry crosses the Baltic Sea to Poland, and that's where we were heading.
The blurb said be there an hour before departure, but we managed an earlier train than I had planned, and were at the terminal about 7:30 for the 9:30 departure. So we sat around, and it happened eventually. We were driven in groups of 4 into the bowels of the ferry and we were on our way, with lots of big international trucks, and cars and campervans.
After that it was pretty boring. The internet was lousy, so all the things I was going to do didn't happen.
We both caught up on sleep, had lunch and at 15:30 reached the Polish seaport of Swinoujscie, which we had never heard of before either. (In fact it is only 2.7km from the German border.)
The ferry terminal and train station are on the eastern side of the river, with a roro ferry to take cars and foot passengers to and from the city on the western side. So I had picked a bnb on the eastern side, and getting there necessitated weaving our way through the line-up of trucks. It was a room in the home of a couple about our age (she hid and he spoke not much Eng), with a lovely garden, and after settling, we took a ride on the ferry into town.
We took a round about way, but eventually found the city central plaza, where there were fountains full of kids, and some notice boards with photos of summer times from years ago.
We had pasta dinner which was v slow coming, so were compensated with free cheesecake which was hard to fit in.
We then came back to our side of the river, and while walking back I saw a big black wild pig running across the road ahead. The locals in front of us we just as amazed as we were.
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