History you can touch, scenery you can breathe: cycling holidays in Poland

From the Baltic coast with its mostly plain, wide sandy beaches, the land ascends on the one hand over the lakescape of Pomerania, Pomeralia and Masuria, on the other hand over the hills and outwash plains of the Baltic land ridge far over the vast middle Polish lowlands to the narrow belt of the Sudeten low mountain range and the minor Polish plateau. A typical moraine landscape follows in the hinterland of the coast with woods and waters: the lakescape of Pomerania, Pomeralia and Masuria. As honoured in folksongs, wild swans still interrupt the nocturnal silence with their rustling wing beat, and storks adorn farmhouses and steeples with their nests.