Malbork Castle

Also titled: the day of delays. 

After a late night, we (well, Steve and me) struggled to get up early to depart for the castle. Malbork Castle is a 40 minute train ride from Gdansk Glowny (train station). There were trains about every 40 minutes. First we planned for the 9:06 train but no one was ready in time. Then we rushed to the 9:48 train but made it to the train station at 9:49. The ticket line was long so Uncle Mark waited and we got tickets to a train at 10:14, two minutes from when he bought the tickets. So we all ran to the train but got confused about which track to be on and it was very chaotic. When we found the right track, there are no indicators on when the train is arriving besides announcements in Polish. People told us the train was delayed. After 20 mins, we figured we missed it and the best was to handle it was to get on the next train at 10:50 and just play dumb. There are assigned seats on these trains but we figured we might have to separate and take what's available. 

We got onto the train and it's a really nice train.  Every seat is super comfortable and there is wifi and digital tvs and outlets and big windows. We take 4 seats in the dining car since we were close by and debate on what to do. After 10 minutes of chatter and debating, the ticket lady came by. We told her someone told us our train was delayed and we thought this was the train. She said "no this train is much nicer!" She was going to have us get off at the next stop except the next stop was Malbork! Missing accomplished!

Malbork is the largest brick castle in the world and it was huge! 

We followed the very cool, audio tour. It tracked you by location so the guide tells you where to walk, when to stop, and when to move. It was a little creepy when I realized he had full control over me but it was brilliant technology, like having your own personal tour guide.