Novotel Szczecin

... our luggage and go stand behind them. When we pull into the station, we are quite anxious to exit the train because we are now down to 7 minutes to change trains. The lady in the front of the queue cannot get the door open! Now we are down to 6 minutes. Finally we get out the door and there are no trains on our platform so we race up the stairs trying hard to find a sign, a direction, anything ...

... van shook with an almightily crash, Sharon thought the engine had fallen out, I though our worst nightmare had come true and someone was trying to get into the van by smashing the roof windows! After a few seconds in shock it was clear the was no one outside and the initial noise had died down, so we nervously went outside to see what had gone on, we had parked under tall pine trees and a branch bigger than the car was lying on the roof, I managed to get on the roof to find it had ...

... The rickety old tram arrived a few minutes later which was a bit surprising, judging by the look of it I would have expected it to have derailed at least once on its journey to the station. We all got on board the already cram-packed car finding just enough standing room to hold us all. The tram car bumped along showing us a mild glimpse at some of the surrounding city. Things got a little brighter after we got further away from the train yard, buildings got a ...

... 1085;и до Москв 99;, ни до Минск 72;... пришл 86;сь ехать в Калин 80;нград!

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From Szczecin we planned to go home, but... visa expires, and tickets to Moscow or Minsk was not... we went to Kaliningrad!

Здесь мы прове 83;и неско 83;ько дней... Ездил 80; к морю, гулял 80;, катал 80;сь н ...

... glass while stumbling down the road. It was quite amusing. My time spent in Szczecin was also my first run in with the monster known as Eastern European bathrooms. While at Ola's graduation I felt that I needed to use the restroom, Polish food was not treating me well. After asking the information lady in Ukrainian where the bathroom was, she refused to help me. Apparently speaking Ukrainian is not viewed positively in this part of Poland ...

Day 3 Saturday morning, I just wanted to sleep longer to recover from the long trip from Sao Paulo but I had to wake up early to take the train to Sczecin, Poland to visit my cousin Igor who is living there at the moment. No problems getting to Gesundbrunnen train station in Berlin and no problems getting to Sczecin either. Travel east now is a piece of cake after the EU enlargement in 2004. Once in Sczecin I didn't have any kind of hassle as they were already waiting for me ...

... prachtig. Ik nam 10 exemplaren mee van Kinga's boek, dus als er iemand nog eentje nodig heeft : voor 15 euro kan je er eentje krijgen. Daarna reden we richting Szczecin via één van de minst snelle wegen die ik ooit gezien heb (ok, de weg van Mexico City naar Tenochtitlan is nog erger). Overal waren er wegenwerken, omleidingen of wegversperringen. 300 km in meer dan 6 uur effectieve rijtijd, het is niet echt vlot ...

... Kinga's book, so if somebody needs one : for only 15 euro it can be yours. After that we left in the direction of Szczecin through one of the slowest roads I have ever seen (ok, we are exaggerating, the road from Mexico City to Tenochtitlan is even worse). But it was not our lucky day : road works, detours, road blocks, .... 300 km took us more that 6 hours effective road time, not really very fast. But the ...

A daytrain trip to the Polan countryside. A round up of friends and other guests to the wedding. Installed us in the castle, at Maiwecko. Had a few beers. Got to see the area, the naighbouring town. Had a few beers Played some tennis. Had a few beers. Rowed on the lake Had some beers. And so on. Then there was the wedding. Bente was beautiful and Kjetil stylish. Party, drinks, dinner and speeches. Lovelly. Great time. Castle weddings rule !