Last Day in Warsaw

 Our last day in Warsaw…

When we got up the whole apartment was basically completely empty. Nothing was left, but a few backpacks, the food in the fridge, and the clothes we were about to put on. It was really sad.

To start the morning exciting, and cheer ourselves up a bit we started our day in Costa Café or the Nero café — I honestly have no idea — where instead of coffee we drank chai latte. Sari did made me chai latte before, but since we don’t have either a printer nor the balls to print money we used cheep coffee and cheep chai thingy, which meant I was almost drinking something completely different. I absolutely loved the chai latte they gave me, so did Sari. Bummer, I wish I knew about this earlier.

After our coffee break we packed everything and headed for the last shopping, we bought the little things that were absolutely needed for our successful trip home: bread, doughnuts, and the missing kinda beers. It was a successful trip. Then we drove home, prepared our meals for the upcoming two day drive to Hungary, and finally hit the road.

We took the highway S7, passed by major cities like Radom and Kielce, unfortunately we didn’t have the time to stop and look around. In a few hours or maybe it took quite a bit more to get to Krakow, which I wanted to drive thru, however traffic didn’t really allowed us. I knew before I saw the Krakow city sign that we were about to get to the city just based on the road conditions. The whole road was covered with thick mud, because they’ve been constructing a new highway for ever, the whole place was bombed when we were going to Warsaw, and that was more than five months ago!

South from Krakow we found more and more roadworks, which made our trip pretty long, and slow. We were stuck in traffic at least four different times in the Tatra mountains. It was pretty terrible to inch forward in every ten-ish minutes, however we couldn’t have stuck with a worse view.



After all the roadworks we got closer and closer to Slovakia, until we didn’t actually got there. Unexpected, eh? On the border there was a police car and since we were in the leading position we were stopped by them… They asked the usual non Corona-time procedure like driver’s license, identification card, and the papers of the car. And for my biggest surprise I also had to do the breathalyzer. It was a completely new experience, police use different kinda breathalyzers. This one had its on funnel, which I had to unpack and assemble the whole kit. It was strange and funny at the same time. I also didn’t knew how long I was supposed to blow it, and I stopped before I should’ve had, so I had to do it again. There were two police, typical good/bad cop, the one who spoke English was nice and helpful, the other was different. After they let us go we drove to Magastatra — dunno the Slovakian name sorry — where we hardly found any parking spaces, and by the time we finally did find a place we didn’t have the time to hike up to the ice dome we were planning to go. 

After an other hour driving we got to our accommodation, where we spent our night.

Today we are arriving to Hungary, after God only knows how many months away we are about to be able to have a conversation with the gas station attendant.

See you tomorrow in Hungary!

Almos

Location: Warsaw, Poland

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