*** TRIP STATISTICS ***
Duration: 15 days
Distance*: 4062 km made by all means
1663 km - hitchhiking **
852 km - by train
791 km - by bus, taxi & underground
623 km - lifts from friends ***
133 km - by walk
While hitchhiking:
28 drivers
59,39 km average distance
* estimated value, propably a bit different from reality
** with a random person
*** arranged before
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Preparations
In the middle of April finally decided to go to Romania. I was about to make a suprise-visit to Ada, a friend of mine living in Bucharest. The plan was to hitchhike there in the end of April so I didn't have much time to prepare myself. Bought a tent, lots of canned meat, torch, road map of Europe, some other stuff and I was ready to go. Just had to stay home till 28th since I had quite a lot work to do at the moment. I was really happy and couldn’t wait the moment I leave Warsaw so the last days seemed to pass like weeks..
Day 1 - Wednsday, 28th of April 2010
Finally the magic date of 28th had come. On that Wednsday I got up at 6 am, packed my stuff and hit the road. I took some public transport to get outside Warsaw and at 8:30 I was ready to be taken by some random driver somewhere south.The beginning was better than I expected. After 15 minutes I was already on the car heading to Dębica near Tarnów. The driver turned out to be a Polish soldier going home for few days. I thought most of soldiers, policeman etc. are morons but this guy was actually a very nice and inteligent person and I enjoyed his company. Before I knew we were already in Dąbrowa Tarnowska where I decided to leave the car. After 10 mins I was heading to Żabno with some lady working there as a doctor. She moved to that shithole from Łódź (3rd biggest city in Poland). Guess it would be nice to do the same some day. Living in a big city is ok but sometimes I just miss countryside - nature, fresh air, some peaceful atmosphere (and the mountains which are NOT 400 km away like now). Żabno was quite disappointing. Not too many cars and I had to wait over 30 min to get 7 km lift and then shortly for another 7 km to Wierzchosławice. From there I hitchhiked to Wojnicz with two old guys - very funny ones. Wish I was like them when I get old. There were acting and joking like there were younger than me. Shame that they could only take me for those 8 km. My next ride was finally better regarding the distance. I travelled with one lady working in PKO Bank and managed to get to Gródek nad Dunajcem by Rożnowskie Lake. Really nice place. Never been there but for sure will come back. Sometimes you don't realize about all the beautiful places around before you don't get there accidentally. It was one of those places. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I couldn't enjoy the view cause almost instantly I cought a car that took me straight to the boarder with Slovakia. The driver wasn't really nice, but at least I got 46km further. I just remember him saying that he hates PKO and people working there are shitheads. Maybe he was angry with my last driver cause she didn't give him a mortgage or something :) I was quite disappointed when crossing the boarder cause instead of lots of TIRs waiting to give me lift straight to Romania I saw really small road good maybe for some bikes but not for huge trucks. Anyway at least the area itself was very nice and soon I got a ride to Stará Ľubovňa (Slovakia). It was getting late and it was quite hard to get anyone to stop. When already started to curse Slovakians in my mind one of them gave me a lift to Lipany. Guy was working for a Polish company so at least there were no problem with communication. Anyway Polish and Slovakian are very similiar so we could speak to each other our own language and be understood. Only sometimes you gotta watch out with the words you're using. For example Polish szukać (to look for) means in Slovakia or Czech Republic to fuck, so if you are a Pole in Slovakia it's better not to say to somebody that you were looking for him. How important good communication is I found later on. Before that I managed to catch a car going to Sabinov and then I took a train to Kosice where I knew a nice Slovakian girl called Zuzka who hosted me for a night. Thanks again! So.. I had a place to sleep, I spent less than 3 euros and travelled almost 500 km. Nice!
Day 1 summary:
Warszawa - Dąbrowa Tarnowska 263 km (hitchhike)
Dąbrowa Tarnowska - Żabno 10 km (hitchhike)
Żabno - Radłów 7 km (hitchhike)
Radłów - Wierzchosławice 7 km (hitchhike)
Wierzchosławice - Wojnicz 8 km (hitchhike)
Wojnicz - Gródek nad Dunajcem 31 km (hitchhike)
Gródek nad Dunajcem - Piwniczna-Zdrój 46 km (hitchhike)
Piwniczna-Zdrój - Stará Ľubovňa 16 km (hitchhike)
Stará Ľubovňa - Lipany 32 km (hitchhike)
Lipany - Sabinov 14 km (hitchhike)
Sabinov - Košice 55 km (train) Total: 482 km
Day 2 - Thursday, 29th of April 2010
So.. after a great start expectations were even higher. Got up at 6 with hope to reach Romania same day. Zuzka's father gave me a lift to a gas station outta town on a road to SK-HU boarder. Very nice of him - thanks! I waited there for an hour but it didn't look so good. Not so many cars stopping there and most of them going in opposite direction. Decided to catch somethin' on the road and it turned out to be a good idea. I got a ride to the town of Seňa near the boarder with some Slovaks and then to the boarder pass with an asian driver who seemed not to understand Polish, Slovakian or any other language. At the boarder also nothing going long-distance so I went with some Poles going to Hungary to bring back their friends who had a car accident. Weird people. They acted very strangely like I was some kind of murderer or a thief at least. If you can't trust people guess you shouldn't take them into your car, right? Anyways if anybody should be afraid - that would be me. The camera and other stuff I took with me was propably twice more expensive than their shitty car. We crossed beautiful landscape full of vineyards bathed in warm may sun. Got a nice holday-feeling. It reminded me of Tuscany although I've never been there. Anyway, screw Tuscany - go to Hungary! It's better! Finally my drivers left me in some kind of Hungarian "city" I couldn't find on the map (maybe Aszalo - dunno). I got to Miskolc after a short ride with Hungarian guy who spoke no English or Russian at all. We had a nice conversation: Magyarország (hun. = Hungary), Lengyelország (hun. = Poland) and Ege sege dre (hun. = cheers). That's it. Anyway he seemed to be a nice guy. Catching next car was a very tough job. I was standing in a place no car wanted to stop and soon I thought of changing it. I took a look at the map and when I finished I realized that somebody has stopped. Not to take me but just to check the road! I was even more lucky when I saw that the car had Polish registration numbers! Also it was going same direction as me - to Debrecen! The driver turned out to be Armenian living in Spain travelling from Poland to Armenia with a car that didn't belong to him. Does it make many sense? He came from Spain to Poland just to buy a car for his Armenian friend. The ride itself was very nice. And fast one too. We drove like 160 km/h on Hungarian highway (which was of suprisingly very good quality). The car seemed to be made for max 120 km/h, but there are no impossible things for Armenian drivers. Crazy guys! Left at Berettyoujfalu (nice name, huh?) which was already close to Romania and I was 100% positive I'll reach it same day. Waiting for next car I got an opportunity to see some nice girls having a party outside and dancing to some Hungarian-village-disco-music (sucked so hard but at least the view was nice! :)) After 30 mins I was heading to HU-RO boarder. Unfortunately didn't get there. My Hungarian driver propably changed his mind or something cause in one moment he started to drive in wrong direction even thou he said he's going to the boarder city (or I think he said so). I waited for and hour at some car park before somebody stopped. My first Romanian driver! Nice! I asked him if he goes to Oradea - he said yes, so I went to take my luggage. While getting to the car I tried to speak English and Russian with him and then he started to shout at me and threw me away! Guess he thought I'm Romanian and when he realized I'm not, propably told me to go fuck myself in his language. Yeah, welcome to Romania! :) Fortunately next Romanian guys were nicer and they took me straight to the boarder. Also they taught me one of the most important expressions in Romanian. No, not te iubesc (rom. = I love you). It was of course parcare de TIR (rom. TIR parking). I crossed the boarder on foot - even thou it's EU they still check passports/IDs there. There was quite a lot of cars waiting so I thought it will be easy to find somebody to ride with. Not the first time in Romania I was wrong :) After 1,5h I was still there and all the drivers were saying sorry, we don't go to Bucharest. Also when I tried to ask them some other questions like where are you going then? the answer was always the same: sorry, we don't go to Bucharest. By that time I realized that I have to learn some Romanian cause if I wanted to speak English with someone I would propably have to speak to myself. Finally after waiting 0,5h more I saw a Polish car. They passed me without stopping but then I noticed them at the nearby gas station. I run there asked for a ride and of course it was not a problem to give me a lift. At the beginning I was kinda afraid cause they started to talk about some vibrators (some perverts or what?) but then it turned out that they're some geo-physics going to work near Ploieşti with this equipment (damn, it still sounds strange). Their car was a kinda slow jeep, but it worked for me. We planned to go all the way to Ploieşti but Romanian roads verified our dreams. They turned out to be even worse than Polish ones not comparing to Slovakian or Hungarian. Instead of Ploieşti we reached Rupea where we stayed for a night. My drivers' company was paying for accomodation so instead of tent I got a room in 4* hotel. The thing was that we had a reciept for 2 bed room. So we paid more, got 3 beds and same time got reciept we needed. Guess the guy at the reception got the price difference for himself so also he was happy with that. Afterwards we went for 2 beers (rom. = bere - important word), and went to sleep.
Day 2 summary:
Košice - gas station 8 km (lift from a friend)
Košice - Seňa 21 km (hitchhike)
Seňa - HU boarder 3 km (hitchhike)
HU boarder - Aszaló (?) 41 km (hitchhike)
Aszaló - Miskolc 15 km (hitchhike)
Miskolc - Berettyóújfalu 155 km (hitchhike)
Berettyóújfalu - road to Artánd 17 km (hitchhike)
Road to Artánd - Oradea 6 km (hitchhike)
Oradea - Rupea 370 km (hitchhike)
Total: 636 km
Day 3 - Friday, 30th of April 2010
Waking up at 5:30 was not nice but this time got some extra motivation. Knowing that I'll see my friends' face same day in the morning (very suprised by my arrival I guess:)) made me more alive. I even decided to pay for a bus from Ploieşti to be in Bucharest a bit earlier. I arrived at my friends' dorm at about 11 but it was me who was suprised. It turned out she was out of the city but she decided to come back and we met in few hours. I spent that time with her friend, Natalia. (Was very nice to meet you! Thanks for everything and see ya in Tibet I guess! :)) The first day was one of the best in Romania. Lots of fun, met some nice people, enjoyed great weather (so much better than in Poland). It all made me very optimistic about following days. Very nice welcome to Romania! Day 4 was supposed to be a trip to the seaside with Alex and Vlad I met same day. Sun AND the beach seemed to be an interesting alternative to Polish 10C degrees and cloudy weather!
Day 3 summary
Rupea - Ploieşti 165 km (hitchhike)
Ploieşti - Bucureşti 55 km (bus)
Bucureşti 4 km (walk)
Bucureşti 16 km (bus/inderground)
Total: 240 km
Day 4 - Saturday, 01st of May 2010
Again got up in the middle of the night to reach the beach before the traffics started. It was 1.05. which is some kind of holiday in Romania. Lots of people going outta town, especially to the seaside and especially to places like Vama Veche where we went. All the day it was quite boring, but I guess seaside has to be like this. For me one day of rest, doing absolutely nothing (apart from a few beers), was a great idea. Just sitting, talking, enjoying the sun and swimming in the sea. The last thing maybe could've been cause even thou it was warm, the sea wasn't. Anyway, when I come to the seaside I just have to swim a bit regardless the weather :) In the evening there was a rock concert - guess the biggest event like this in Romania. Bands were quite bad and didn't like it so much. Romanian rockers seem to be still somewhere in the middle ages, they looked like they never heard of crowdsurfing :| Tried few times but no success.. The day ended nicely thou. I spent the evening with sitting by a fireplace and talking with Alexandra, a friend of Ada, Alex & Vlad. Very nice time - thanks! :)
Day 4 summary:
Bucureşti - Vama Veche 280 km (a lift from a friend)
Total: 280 km
Day 5 - Sunday, 02nd of May 2010
Another lazy day. In the morning trip back to Bucureşti, then sleeping in a dorm, a short walk in the city, some time spent in one of the Bucurests' parks and basically that's all. About the dorms. Before I came I was wondering quite a lot how do they look in Romania. Quite different than Polish ones. They consist of 1-room apartments, have 1 common bathroom and not-so-clean. Kinda low standard. For me it didn't really matter. I used to say - it's all about the people, not the places and the people were nice. If you ever had an opportunity to sleep in the forest without any tents and sleeping bags I guess later all places that are not wet and cold would be great. I had so the dorm seemed to me like a palace :)
Day 5 summary:
Vama Veche - Bucureşti 280 km (a lift from a friend)
Bucureşti 15 km (bus)
Bucureşti 8 km (walk)
Total: 303 km
Day 6 - Monday, 03rd of May 2010
Sightseeing day. After walking my friend to the station I walked myself through almost whole city. Saw all the major tourist attractions like Parliament (second biggest building in the world!), Ateneum, some churches, monument of giant potato on the stick and many others. For me Bucureşti turned out to be not-so-interesting city. Most of the buildings are in soviet style and I saw this kind of things in Poland, Ukraine and Russia and that's why I was not amazed by it. It's quite interesting that in 1977 some part of the city was destroyed during the eartquake which gave the Romanian gouvernment a good reason to destroy some more and replace it with socialistic architecture. For me it was a good idea to go outside the city centre. Not so crowded, much more peaceful and quiet it seemed very nice and reminded me Georgian capital Tbilisi where I studied for 4 months. Really miss it so much. That day I also visited a church near potato monument. Spent there almost 2 hours wondering about some things that were bothering me at that time. Some sort of a moment of reflection. In the evening I met with my Romanian friends met in Russia last year - Claudiu, Cristina and Tatiana. Was nice to see them again. Got me some advices bout Romania and ideas about some places worth visiting. When I came back to the dorm I met Ada's roommate - Nicoletta who likes pears :)
Day 6 summary:
Bucureşti 10 km (bus/underground)
Bucureşti 30 km (walk)
Bucureşti 7 km (bus)
Total: 47 km
Bucureşti 10 km (bus/underground)
Bucureşti 30 km (walk)
Bucureşti 7 km (bus)
Total: 47 km
Day 7 - Tuesday, 04th of May 2010
I was about to visit my friend in Oneşti this day but in the last minute my plans had to be changed. I threw away the train ticket I had and decided to go to Ceahlău Mountains. Instead of going from Ajud to Oneşti I had to continue my travel to Bacău so I chose to try ancient Romanian way of travelling by train. This means bribing the ticket controller by giving him about 30-50% of tickets' worth. Suprisingly I ended beeing thrown out of the train. It didn't work... WTF?!? Later it turned out that it was the only one time I didn't succeed :) Anyway I was lucky again cause in 5 mins there was another train leaving to Bacău and the price was cheaper than bribing the controller in the previous one! There's more about Romanian trains to be mentioned later.. From Bacău I took a train to Piatra Neamţ, then a bus to Bicaz and hitchhiked to Izvoru Muntelui. Hitchhiking was so much easier in that region than in parts of Romania I visited before. I met a nice couple that took me straight to that place even thou they were going some different direction and then helped me talk to National Park ranger and get some useful information. Really appreciated this. After they left I pitched the tent in the forest, had a beer and went to sleep. There were mountains waiting for me the next day.
Day 7 summary:
Bucureşti 7 km (bus)
Bucureşti - Ajud 250 km (train)
Ajud - Bacău 56 km (train)
Bacău - Piatra Neamţ 65 km (train)
Piatra Neamţ - Bicaz 25 km (bus)
Bicaz - Izvoru Muntelui 8 km (hitchhike)
Total: 411 km
Day 8 - Wednsday, 05th of May 2010
Finally, I was at the trail. Got up at 6, ate a small breakfast (some Romanian sausages - kinda disguisting but had no choice, could've eaten some grass instead, but after some time I decided to choose the sausages). The path itself was supposed to take 4,5-5h so I could take my time, relax and enjoy the nature. I love spending time in mountains, especially when I'm alone there. Can gather my thoughts, think about some stuff I have on my mind at the moment and by that time there was quite a lot of this. That day at about 12 I slowly reached Cabana (rom.= mountain refugee) Dochia and after eating mamaliga with cheese (rom. = mamaliga cu brânză ) and having a beer I went to climb second highest peak in the Ceahlău Mountains, mt. Toaca (1900 m). Spent 3h on the peak relaxing and sunbathing in a zone free of communism (especially nice after visiting Bucharest ;)) Apart from Dochia I met 5 people that day. That was what I needed. That time prefered bears, deers and eagles than humans. If you don't understand watch Into The Wild movie. Really great one - it's a must see!
Day 8 summary:
Ceahlău Mountains 20 km (walk)
Total: 20 km
Day 9 - Thursday, 06th of May 2010
Sometimes everything changes in a second, a great day becomes the worst day in your life, a day full of hope and expectations ends with a feeling of indifference. This was that kind of day. My plan was to get to Lacu Roşu (eng. = Red Lake) and camp by the lake. Started really very well. Got up at 5 to make some pics of the sunrise and after some time I left Dochia with a Romanian couple I met the other day. Really nice people, enjoyed their company very much, They were about to emigrate to Canada and work as national park rangers (real ones, not like those wankers in Romania, like they said). They gave me a lift with their car and then I started to walk towards Lacu Roşu. The road leaded through Bicaz Chei (eng. = Bicaz Canyon). That place was just amazing even thou they put an asphalt road there. Also hated these kind of small markets situated by the road. Lots of sellers selling this cheap chineese shit. That completely ruins the picture - hope they'll ban in in some day. About 1h from Bicaz Chei was already Lacu Roşu, but it was a bit disappointing for me. Quite a lot of tourists, hotels and stuff like that made me go somewhere further. I decided to pitch a tent in the forest and followed the road to Ghorgheni. Couldn't find anything good enough I walked for about 20 km and when I finally wanted to stop it started to rain. Quick decision - hitchhiking to Ghorgheni and then we'll see. The first car stopped. I was lucky again - few minutes later it started to rain heavily. The driver turned to be a Hungarian with Romanian passport. He told me quite a lot of interesting stuff bout that region. About 80% of people living in Ghorgheni are Hungarians and Hungarian is the main language spoken in the city! Later on when he left me at Miercurea-Ciuk I went to the shop. There was a small, bout 12 yrs old girl by the counter. I asked her in Romanian How much is the cheese? (rom. = cât costa brânză?). She answered she doesn't speak Romanian and she called her father. He started to speak to me in Romanian but then I said I don't understand it :) Later on we talked (in Russian) so he found out I'm from Poland. There is this saying in Polish and in Hungarian, that we're like brother-nations. To fight and to drink together. Since the only person we could fight was this small girl, we decided to drink. The owner closed his shop for about 30 mins and we had some wine together. Then I went to the station to catch a train to Bucureşti . This day I found out another thing about Romanian trains. They're never on time (made like 5 attemps and it was always the same; this time it was about 1h delay). Also, they're propably one of the slowest ones in Europe. It took over 6h to travel for about 260 km which meant the train reached amazing average speed of 42 km/h! If you're good at cycling better take your bike with you! It's cheaper, faster and more environmental friendly! From the train part of the day become crappy. I finished it drinking vodka with some Moldavian guys in the dorm. I was told Moldavian people drink a lot but not so long after we started 2 (of 3) were gone. After some time our friend, vodka was also gone and at about 5-6 am we had to go to sleep.
Day 9 summary:
Cabana Dochia - road to Bicazu Ardelean 4km (walk)
road to Bicazu Ardelean - Bicaz Chei 20 km (a lift from a friend)
Bicaz Chei - (near) Ghorgheni 30 km (walk)
Gheorgheni - Miercurea-Ciuc 60 km (hitchhike)
Miercurea-Ciuc - Bucureşti 260 km (train)
Bucureşti 8 km (taxi)
Total: 382 km
Day 10 - Friday, 07th of May 2010
I don't think drinking vodka helps to solve your problems and this time it also didn't but maybe it's just easier to reach the bottom and then bounce back rather than staying underwater all the time. I felt pretty bad the other day and I decided to get back to Poland. Feeling some kind of indifference just couldn't enjoy travelling and meeting new people as much as I used to. Song of a day 10 (and 11):
I spend the whole day mastering my time-wasting techniques (which are already of finest quality) and in the evening I packed my stuff and went to meet Alex and Vlad (propably the best future couchsurfing hosts in Romania - highly recommended *****) Considering my mood I had a really great time and the next day I was a bit sad also because I was leaving. Was very nice to meet you guys and hopefully I'll see you some day!
I spend the whole day mastering my time-wasting techniques (which are already of finest quality) and in the evening I packed my stuff and went to meet Alex and Vlad (propably the best future couchsurfing hosts in Romania - highly recommended *****) Considering my mood I had a really great time and the next day I was a bit sad also because I was leaving. Was very nice to meet you guys and hopefully I'll see you some day!
Day 10 summary:
Bucureşti 8 km (bus) Bucureşti 4 km (walk)
Total: 12 km
Day 11 - Saturday, 08th of May 2010
In the morning made some shoppings and went to the station to catch a train to Brasov. It was supposed to leave at 11 but it was cancelled due to lack of passengers wanting to travel it. Damn, in civilized countries you just don't do that! If you can't make a proper schedule based on traffic analysis go work in McDonalds instead of railway company! (no offence to McD staff - appreciate your work). I was in Braşov around 17:30 and decided to stay in one of the hostels. Needed proper rest before nex day travelling. Guess the city itself was beautiful especially the old part but for me nothing was beautiful that day. Didn't enjoy it but if somebody asked me about it I would surely recommend visiting it. That day just made some pics to know I've been there, got a chat with some American and Finnish guys at the hostel and went to sleep.
Day 11 summary:
Bucureşti 10 km (a lift from a friend)
Bucureşti - Braşov 166 km (train)
Braşov 8 km (walk)
Total: 184 km
Day 12 - Sunday, 09th of May 2010
Got up at 5:30. Fresh, relaxed and ready to go. No, not really. Had an awful breakfast (some Romanian canned meat; bought 2 types of those - later found out the second one was very good). Also missed 1st bus to the railway station. At 7:30 I was already on the road to Oneşti with some people going to a funeral. Maybe I looked kinda like them and that's why they took me. We were driving about 140 km/h what on Romanian roads can be quite suicidal. At that moment I really felt like I'm going to a funeral but luckily we managed to stay in one piece. In Oneşti I took a car to Bacău and then hitchhiked to Suceava. I travelled with a guy in 1969's Dacia. At the beginning I thought it will take ages to reach Suveava but actually the car was renovated and in very good condition easily reaching 120-130 km/h and not falling apart. The driver was collecting old cars like that and he knew how to make them work smoothly. Dacia turned out to be even better than Mercedes :) That one we were riding was worth around 14000 euros (at least I was told so). We got to Suceava at about 13:15. Over 300 km in less than 6h in total so it was about 1h faster than taking a train and free of charge! In Suceava I found the Polish House and thought I might be able to stay there for a night but it was not opened on Sunday. Then I got lucky again. The other day I wrote some messages to Couchsurfing members in Suceava asking for a place to stay and one of them, George, replied he could host me that day. I went with him to a small village 20km from Suceava. I liked his place very much. Countryside, lots of animals, peaceful and quiet atmosphere was what I needed at the moment. Lack of running water wasn't really a problem :) Spent there some nice time chatting also learned to play backgammon and watched Celtics - Cavs game (almost whole - I felt asleep somewhere in 4th quarter I think). Propably next time I'm also gonna drop by. George CS profile
Day 12 summary:
Braşov - Oneşti 125 km (hitchhike)
Oneşti - Bacău 45 km (hitchhike)
Bacău - Suceava 140 km (hitchhike)
Suceava - some village nearby 20 km (a lift from a friend)
Total: 330 km
Day 13 - Monday, 10th of May 2010
It was a good day. Got up not so early, took a shower at gas station George was working at and hit the road (with problems but solved with a little help from my friends :)). Got a lift to the boarder with George and his friend. Bought some beer (souvenirs for my friends) and tried to hitchhike. It was hard - there were almost no cars crossing the boarder and propably nobody was going anywhere further than Chernivtsi so I decided to go there. Then I got about 15 km out of town but later on I couldn't catch anything. I got quite pissed off that nobody was stopping so I took a marshrutka (minibus) to Sniatyn and then a bus to Ivano-Frankovsk (costed about 4 euros in total). I got a friend, Przemek, who used to live there so there was no problem with finding a place to stay for a night. I met some friends of his - Hrystia and Nigel Ukrainan-Canadian couple living there. We had some beers ate very nice Bochka at Bochka restaurant at the town square (gotta try it - 2,5 euros only!). Spent really nice time with them. Later I also met a Turkish guy Firat - at his place I was about to stay for a night. Yeah, it kinda didn't work that way. We decided to go to the club and I stayed there till they were closing. Had a great time, had a lot o fun, met four nice Ukrainian girls and was back home at 6 am.
Day 13 summary:
To the gas station 2 km (walk) Gas station - Siret 15 km (hitchhike)
Siret - RO-UA boarder 5 km (a lift from a friend)
RO-UA boarder - 10 km north :) (hitchhike)
to Чернівці (Chernivtsi) 28 km (hitchhike) Чернівці (Chernivtsi) - Лужани (Luzhani) 12 km (hitchhike) Лужани (Luzhani) - Снятин (Sniatyn) 20 km (bus) Снятин (Sniatyn) - Івано-Франківськ (Ivano-Frankivsk) 105 km (bus) Івано-Франківськ 4 km (walk) Івано-Франківськ 15 km (taxi) Івано-Франківськ 4 km (walk)
Total: 220 km
Day 14/15 - Monday, Tuesday, 10-11th of May 2010
Was kinda hard to get up after 2h of sleep but I had to. Got some hangover but it disappeared very soon after 1h walk with 25kg backpack. Left luggage at the station and went to see the city. Didn't do anything worth mentioning, haven't met anybody interesting, just enjoyed the city, great weather, spent some time relaxing in the park etc. Also bought some foreign beers for my friends which together with romanian ones made it 11. Left from the bus station at 17:50. The bus was slow and shitty but cheap as well. For 12h trip to Warsaw paid 20 euro. Later it turned out that 4h of those I was about to spend at the boarder. First you wait in a huge queue, then they check your pasport, then you get out, again passports, they check your luggage, then they check the bus. Nice welcome to your home country, huh? People treated like animals going to be slaughtered and nobody cares bout it... What's more after all this stuff they let almost all smugglers get their cigarettes and alcohol to Poland. Don't believe they couldn't find anything. Bloody wankers! Wasn't it easier to let everybody cross the boarder without all this bullshit? 5:30 was in Warsaw, at 6 got home, repacked my stuff and went to sleep. Hibernating till the next journey which will be...
Day 14/15 summary
Івано-Франківськ (Ivano-Frankivsk) 15 km (walk) Івано-Франківськ - Warszawa 500 km (bus)
Total: 515 km
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