Zakopane

Hitched down to Zakopane on Tuesday, longest wait was in Warsaw.. about 40 minutes, after that we got a car to Radom and a ride immediately from a truck driver to Krakow, caught a bus a little bit out of a center and hitched the last car down to Zakopane, took about 7hrs in all.. not too bad. Spent 3 nights there, drinking beer (had stopped for a day or two but started to get itchy so thought some beers would help), walking around, eating lots of cheese... spent some time with our host there, a guy who had worked in London for 4 months, we were staying at his grandparents in Szaflary most of the time.. about 20km from Zakopane and either hitching in or getting the local bus.... one night, we met some old friends of Sylwia's and went to a reggae concert... left the place at 10.30 and that was it, no transport back to Szaflary, so hitched our way up to Bialy Dunajec and after that.. nothing! Grrr... supposedly it's 3km from Bialy Dunajec to Szaflary but they are both pretty long and we were at opposite ends of either place, so we ended up walking 7km along an icy, dark road with cars flying passed us every so often.. bit dangerous but we made it home.

Only, what's this... the house is locked. Bollox! Try knocking on the door and nothing, there's no chance they can here us and for some reason the dog is being totally useless and not barking! I ring Wojtek at 1am to ask him how to get in contact with his parents, he's like "umm.. knock louder" but it would seemed he telephoned them and they did open up in the end :). Ah, bed at last!

To save some time on Saturday, we caught the night bus back on Friday.. not many people on it actually, I used Sylwia's scarf as a sort of pillow against the window and somehow managed to lose it, I have a little look for it and guess what... the fool behind us is using it.. git! He dropped it too though and I managed to pick it up afterwards, even so - what a git.