Wolin Island and Amber Baltic Golf Club

Amber Baltic Clubhouse

We took advantage of a long holiday weekend in early May, and headed north.  It was our first visit to the Baltic seashore. Why this area rather than the more popular Gdansk, Tri-city? A golf course! It was a little early in the season and although it was sunny, the weather was still chilly.  I’m guessing the high temperature was 10 C or 50 F with howling wind, 65 km or 40 miles an hour.

We visited Amber Baltic Golf Club, founded in 1993 – the first Polish golf course.  My husband felt the course was well designed, challenging with fair greens and a good deal of water.   The lunch menu in the club house changes daily featuring a set menu of traditional Polish cuisine.  We enjoyed a late lunch one day consisting of a hearty tomato soup, rolled chicken with potato dumplings and pickled cucumbers.

We visited the boardwalk in Międzyzdroje and walked to the end of a the longest cement pier in Poland.  The wind was so strong that I wouldn’t have ventured out if it weren’t for the railings,  not that I was in danger of being blown over, I’m just chicken, and, it was strong enough that you could feel it moving you.

The Wolin National Park is home to a Bison sanctuary which we tried to visit.  It was closed for the holiday apparently.  There is a parking lot along the road for visitors to the sanctuary.  The entrance is a 1600 meter hike through the forest.   It was disappointing after walking a mile to find them closed with no option other than to walk a mile back to our car.  We weren’t the only ones.  There were several Polish families getting the same bad news, so it’s not because we couldn’t read a sign telling us that they were closed that day.

Wishing you an enjoyable visit to Wolin Island!

Pozdrowiam,

Lois

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