Our arrival in Poland's capital
After our trip through the Baltic States, we immediately realized that being spontaneous on the trip also involves detours. Because we decided in Estonia, that we want to continue our journey to Poland afterwards and therefore cross the entire Baltic States once again in a fast forward bus ride. From Tallinn we took the LUXexpress bus directly to Vilnius in the evening. Since we had booked this bus provider several times before, we knew that the legroom there was quite good and that we would survive the 8 hours bus ride first to Vilnius and then another 7.5 hours in a second bus to Warsaw quite well. And so we crossed the Baltic States, made another short stop in Riga and when we arrived in Vilnius, where we had to change buses, we realized that the situation there had changed a bit with regard to the corona situation. One month ago it wasn't mandatory to wear a mask in the bus nd in public. Well, masks were introduced again at the beginning of August, so we had to put on our masks for the bus ride from Vilnius to Warsaw. Since it was for our safety, too, we were totally fine with that.
After more than 16 hours we finally reached Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Already when checking into our accommodation close to the center we could count on Tomek's language skills, because the doorman, from whom we were supposed to pick up our keys, didn't speak English at all. Our first impression of the city is already really good, so that we walked into the old town on the first evening despite being tired from the bus ride.
The special feature on our trip through Poland
The trip to Poland also has a special feature: We get visitors from Germany, our friend Ulli, who wanted to travel with us through Poland for a week. Her plane landed one day after our arrival in Warsaw, we moved into a bigger apartment and spent 1.5 days together there. Just the view from the small balcony of the accommodation was already very breathtaking for us:
With Ulli we went to the old town, and drank a Polish beer together. We also took a walk along the Vistula, tried to understand the walls of the University Library and walked to the "Praga" quarter, and admired the old buildings of the old town.
But because we wanted to do more than just a city trip with Ulli, we drove on together to the south of Poland - to the high Tatras.
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