Birthdays, Belarus and Baltics

Well the last couple of days have been a bit mad, and I now find myself in Vilnius in Lithuania. I never made it to the Ukraine due to not being able to sort out a Belarusian transit visa, but I am sure I will live without it.

Spent my birthday in Warsaw getting drunk with a group of French blokes and a couple of Aussie girls, actually had a good night, didn’t pay for anything and didn’t feel too bad once I had hit the shower Sunday morning so I guess I can’t complain. Warsaw itself isn’t the best winter destination in the world, but I did see a few things that made it worthwhile that I will blog about later.

I headed up here last night on an overnight bus, which was an experience, and to be honest I have pretty much seen all there is to offer (lots of hills and a nice old town). I fly home from Tallinn next Tuesday so I am going to head to Riga tomorrow before going there, I’m also looking into doing a day trip to Helsinki if I can get the ferry schedules to work out.

I love Poland

Not because of the abundance of attractive and friendly young women, or even the copious amounts of cheap, good, lager available.

But because you can buy Tetleys tea in the supermarkets, and not just the standard kind, the extra strong stuff that I love even more.

Life is good.

Krakow

Well the skies are threateningly grey, it’s cold, and there are lots of Polish people about. So it’s just like being back at home.

In all seriousness it’s a nice place but I am glad I came on Wednesday when I did, just walking around this morning shows a big change in the place, as all the weekend pissheads from Britain have started to arrive. I’ve learnt a few things here too, like never assume that people working in a Spanish restaurant will be able to speak even a couple of words of the language.

Warsaw is my next stop tomorrow, then I’m going to work out how best to tackle getting to Tallinn by March 27 when I fly home