CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 255 km round trip from Gdańsk - roughly 3 h 41 in the saddle. The stops in between: Gdynia Modernist City Centre, Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, back through Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork and back through Gdynia Modernist City Centre.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 82 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Gdansk has been a trading port for a thousand years, and the front of its Long Market, the Dluga Targ, shows what the money bought. Tall, narrow merchant houses stand shoulder to shoulder, their facades painted and gilded and carved with figures, around the Neptune Fountain and the Artus Court. In the Second World War, the city was ninety percent destroyed, and what you see today is a painstaking reconstruction from old paintings and photographs, which makes it more remarkable. The Gothic crane on the quay, the Zuraw, was once the largest in Europe, and it hoisted masts and cargo from ships in the Middle Ages.
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Gdansk is where the day begins. Next is Gdynia Modernist City Centre.
Gdynia is the youngest large city on the Polish coast, and its story is unusually clear. In 1920 Poland regained access to the Baltic after more than a century and found that its main port, Danzig, was a free city under League of Nations control. So the new state built a port of its own at a small fishing village here, and in about fifteen years Gdynia grew from a few thousand people to over a hundred thousand. The architects of the day built in the style they knew, the modernism of the 1930s, with white walls, rounded corners, ship-like balconies and flat roofs, and the city centre still has a streak of that confident, optimistic look.
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Gdynia Modernist City Centre comes up 28 km in. Next is Gdynia Modernist City Centre.
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55 km in you reach Gdynia Modernist City Centre. Next is Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork.
Seen across the river Nogat on a clear day, Malbork looks almost too large to be real. It is the biggest brick castle in the world by area, built by the Teutonic Knights from the late thirteenth century and made their capital in 1309, when the Grand Master moved here from Venice. They called it Marienburg, in honour of the Virgin, and it served as the fortress, monastery and administrative headquarters of a military state that stretched along the Baltic. The brick walls rise in layer on layer, with a high castle, a middle castle and a lower castle, protected by moats, towers and gates, and it was more of a small city than a single building.
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Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, about halfway.
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Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork sits at 111 km, about halfway. Next is back through Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork.
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back through Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork comes up 138 km in. Next is back through Gdynia Modernist City Centre.
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166 km in you reach back through Gdynia Modernist City Centre. Next is back through Gdynia Modernist City Centre.
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back through Gdynia Modernist City Centre, late in the day. Next is Gdansk.
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The route ends here after 255 km.
Gdansk → Gdynia Modernist City Centre is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gdynia Modernist City Centre → Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork → back through Gdynia Modernist City Centre is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Gdynia Modernist City Centre → Gdansk is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.