MALBORK CASTLE

Malbork was as far North as we went - just SE of Gdansk.

The castle we saw on our visit is absolutely enormous.

Of course it has been added to and rebuilt many times since September 1309 when the Grand Master Siegfried von Feuchtwangen moved the Teutonic Order's headquarters to Malbork, these were the sort of Knights we see in films - lots of blood and gore and fighting.























Inside much of the place has been repaired and improved but this ceiling was a bit special.











Check out this massive medieval portcullis - this would have made getting inside very difficult - if not impossible.








On our trip we saw fields and fields of so many different things growing - there certainly was no shortage of veg.

Here Suri checks out a tobacco plantation, in the background there are barns where the leaves were being dried out - fascinating.











Also fascinating was this plane on the forecourt of a petrol station - not sure how it got there and it certainly was not going anywhere now.