N. Shoba Raju

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Medieval marvels

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Poland, the Czech Republ-ic and Hungary are dotted with fairy tale towns and castles out of an illustrated children’s book. We set out on a cold spring day on a road trip that began with Gdansk, a quaint medieval town on the Baltic Sea, the amber capital of the world. Gdansk, Sopot and Gdynia are referred to as a tri-city. Sopot used to be the summer gossip capital of Poland where the jet set would indulge in their decadence, shocking the public with scandalous behaviour that was quickly relegated to

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