Tea in Warsaw

Tea in Warsaw

 Location: Centre of Warsaw, posh restaurant (real table cloth, posh indeed!)

Date/Time: 6^th May 2009, approx 12:30

Variety of Tea: Earl Grey

Cost: 12 Zlote (about 3 pounds)

Service: The man wore cufflinks, nuff said

Taste: Pretty good, it came in one of those massive cups. Not sure why that’s worth mentioning, but it is

Ambiance: We were outside, it started raining, we were under an umbrella thing. Cue the old “we’re not getting wet” warm glow inside

Shadam rating: 4/10 – Bit pricy for the area but altogether not bad

Buying train tickets in Warsaw

Train station in Warsaw, trying to buy a ticket to Riga in Latvia (holding a print out of the 4 trains we need to book with times)

Adam: We’d like to book 2 tickets to Riga 

      Silence

Train Lady: No train

      Adam furiously checks that there is a train 

      Sheena tries to stare out the train lady, no joy

Adam: Tomorrow morning? (hands over print out) 

      Silence

Train Lady: No train to Riga 

Train Lady: No train today 

Train Lady: No train tomorrow 

Train Lady: After tomorrow… no train 

        Adam and Sheena exchange puzzled looks

Train Lady: I can… train to Vilnius 

        Adam and Sheena exchange puzzled looks, unsure exactly where that is

Adam: OK, we’ll take them 

       As we’re paying for the tickets…

Sheena: If that’s in Belarus we’ll need a Visa… 

       It turned out that Vilnius isn’t in Belarus, and all was well. Except that Vilnius is in Lithuania where we hadn’t planned to go so that’ll be exciting…