Warsaw

Monday 18^th of June

Two more things I have to mention about Vilnus. First is the pet my host had. A small and lazy guy, a quinea pig, which I named Mr. Skinny. Just look at the picture, then you understand. The other thing was one crazy woman in a bus to Sigulda. The bus was full, so I gave my seat to one woman. So I was standing and Linda and Andreas were sitting behind this woman, and we were having a normal conversation with normal voices. The bus journey was in total about half an hour. So abuóut after 15 minutes, this woman turns around and says: ”Can you stop talking, you are disturbing me.” The same woman I gave my seat to. I'm glad she wasn't the only Latvian I've met.

Mr. Skinny

Okay, but long story short, after Vilnus happened as follows.

Friday. 22.30 Bus starts to Warsaw from Vilnus. 23.00. I've already had enough of the bus. Luckily only 7,5 hours to go. It was quite a long trip, I still don't like buses. 6.40 I arrive in Warsaw very tired, after slept some hours. I met a guy from Hong Kong in the bus, and we spent the morning together in Warsaw. I bought a ticket to a night train to Zakopane. It departed at 00.30 so I had 16 hours time to kill in Warsaw. I spent it mostly walking around. I was surprised how nice the city was, because I was there last time in 2005 and I remembered it being a boring city. Maybe it is because of the football games, maybe not, but there was a lot of happenings all around the city and the old town was lovely. Also the many parks around the city were great, so overall the city seemed to be a very enjoyable place to spend time. Maybe the biggest problem seemed to be too long distances inside the city. Anyways, I accidentally for example found a piano concert from a park. The pianist was really good (with my awesome Polish language skills I figured out he was probably a student in a local academy) and it was a very interesting setting, hundreds of people sitting in a park very quietly listening to the pianist playing. I also accidentally saw a football team which I think was Poland move out of their hotel, where a small but fanatic fan group was waiting for them. In the evening I watched Germany playing against Denmark in a huge fan area built in the centrum. Okay my Finnish friends, hear this out: no entry fee and beer costs 2 euros. Now what do you think how would this be arranged in Finland... 00.30 My train starts from Warsaw to Zakopane. 00.33 I know it's gonna be a looong ride. The train was totally packed, it was super hot and of course my place was in the middle of two overweighted gentlemen. In the end the trip turned out to be better than feared, many people left the train before Zakopane, so in the end there was only three of us in one cabin. 9.45 I'm in Zakopane, feeling very tired after two bad nights. Now I'm going to stay here for at least three nights. The mountains surrounding the town are already waiting for me, so the next days should be awesome!

Vilnus old town

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