Szczecin-The Diary
Wow!! It was just totally fab, bear in mind we went for 5 days, flights hotel presents food etc all cost less than 130 quid!!! OK chronologically:Day 1-Monday
VVV early int morning I meet Debs in camden, we intend to take the 24 to Victoria then get on the Terravision bus to Stansted. But of course it went wrong...no bloody 24 turned up! Now i'm not sure you understand how rare this is. In London you never usually wait more than 3-5 minutes between 24's, so in a panic we decide to take the Northern Line to Euston then Vicoria to...well....Victoria. Ok so we are there with about 15 minutes till the bus goes and we wait and no bus turns up, the panic levels were rising so we phoned the bus company and found we were at the WRONG bus stop. So we ran to the right one and lo and behold the bus had gone! Now we were seriously het up by now, there was talk of cabbing it to the airport costing us thousands (an approximate) of pounds. Well after negotiations with 2 bus opperators and some serious acting...we are poor lost confused girl travelers...please help us. We got on a bus and arrived with 1.5 hours before departure. All the checking was good and we both had a wee in the airport loos. I bought some flip flops. Then we got on the plane and flew to Szczecin. As we were landing I was looking around for the town....no where to be seen. It turns out the airport called Geleou is like a million miles away from the city and is populated by the polish army. Got a bus from the airport to the centre of Szczecin for 10zt (about 2 quid) then got a public bus to our hotel that only cost us 40p for 20 mins traveling. Then we collapsed in our new houseee thing. We did have to share a double bed!! The guy's english wasn't great and apparently "twin" is the same a "double" AND debs stole the duvet EVERY NIGHT!
Day2-Tuesday
Wow it was a bit of a mission but so much fun! we walked round szczecin and did tons of stuff. We went to get our bus tickets and it only cost 9 zt. While near the lake I got a hot dog.....but like no other! It had layer upon layer of salad and pickled things and strange sauces ontop so it was more of an interesting salad sandwich with a bit of sausage in. Yummy. We also saw the Da vinci code or the Kod Da Vinci, at the Galaxy centre which was great, did you know that 'steady' is uspookajac in polish. So I learnt stuff too!
Day3-Wednesday
We posted post cards which up to recently STILL havn't arrived. We also went to the market where we bought some sweeties called 'Lobster tails' which despite the name were yummy and have no real connection to any form of crustacian! we also found an old man and took pictures of him, drunk coffee in a dingy place which looked suspiciously like a down market brothel. OO we also saw the oldest cinema in the world...supprisingly boring looking and on the way home found a huuuuuuge statue thing.
Day4-Thursday
Now this was my fave day of all, Me Debs Kristopher and Gregor all went for a jolly across the border to Berlin, now world cup fever was gripping the country and we happened to drop in on some sort of celeb event, there were fat german referees, Angela Merkel, David Beckham, a big football with a slide!! everything you would want for an eventful day out. We saw the Reichstag and the Brandeburg Gate and I bought my 18th (tut tut) diddl-it was a world cup one so it doesnt really count!!!
Day5-Friday
Ahh the day home, gregor and Kristopher decided to give us a lift to the bus except they forgot summat so one minute we were going into szczecin the next we were zooming back up the hill, I could see the panic level of debs rising it was sooo funny specially as she told me before of how she usually seems to plan out the worst possible sceniario...but we made it and everything twas fine.
Back home now, but I still have 200 zt so OH DEAR I will have to go back sometime! hehee. I'm learning polish gramar at the moment....all acusitive and locative and 'hail ceaser'!
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