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Chargers Win, Chargers Win
OUTLINE
- Everyone is up in plenty of time for our train but we still end up running late and only just making it to the platform in time
- Everyone sleeps on the train but me
- TopTrumps – I win
- We are asked to move carriages because we are sat at the wrong end of the train. This end stops at the Poland – Lithuanian boarder. The other end carries on to Vilnius. Thanks to Mr. Conductor
- We change at Sestokai by crossing the platform and boarding a Lithuanian ‘First Northwestern’ train to Vilnius
- Our hostel booking is wrong but the city is quiet and we get another easily, quickly and only a short walk away
- We drop our bags and head out for some food. Nationwide is not working again!
- Food is cheap in Vilnius, we order a three course meal at midnight. The first meal of the day
- Euros pay for my bed and I get to sleep for the first time in 48 hours
I.S.C. sweet Polish train station buns. Apple filling, score -1!!!
Sarah does not understand TopTrumps.
Polish – Lithuanian boarder is a white hut housing a small suited man and a green ping pong paddle.
Vilnius is small and beautiful especially in the snow.
Our fashionable pod style hostel is disorientating but a bed is a bed when you’ve been watching NFL all night.
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The Turkish Incident
OUTLINE
- Jay and Sarah arrive back from a night out in Warsaw
- Our new friend Cem comes back next
- James arrives home shortly after
- Cem tries to get in every ones bed and stalks the room for the rest of the night with his phone torch on
- You don’t sleep well when your worried you might get an unwanted guest
- Morning comes, everyone is hungover and Cem claims his antics were only a drunken mistake
- Cem invites himself around Warsaw with us today. He sticks very closely to James’ side. Things are getting weird
- Cem finally leaves after our tour of Warsaw, he tries his best to kiss James. Definitely awkward
- Dinner at the Sphinx steakhouse trying to calm James down
- San Diego Chargers Post Season Wild Card Playoff game 2am – 5am. I love free Wi-Fi
- Train to Vilnius at 6.30am
Sharing a hostel room with a crazy dude is all part of travelling the world but from now on I’ll be holding out for a four birth.
Old town Warsaw is Euro inspired. Down town Warsaw is Bladerunner inspired.
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Another day, another train & another hostel & another currency & another language & another & another & another ….
OUTLINE
- Check out of Berlin hostel.
- Train to Warsaw
- Change money to Zlotis
- Book tickets for train to Vilnuis, Lithuania. Nice one Marta.
I went ‘free breakfast’ loco filling up for a long day of sitting.
My luck is turning. I got out of paying for the hostel. 70 Euros in the bank.
An A.T.M. accepts my Nationwide card and gives me some cash. It seems the building society only exaggerated.
Traveling to Poland from Germany is like moving backwards in time, and the train station is totally confusing.
Warsaw looks amazing on first glance – deeper snow & the start of Eastern block architecture.
Oki-Doki hostel is the best, simple as.
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