Warsaw to Vilnius

woke up, excellent buffet breakfast in the novotel warsaw airport

cab to the marriott for the car

ford fuckus

goes OK, for a petrol 1.6

waze to vilnius

food at servo, trying to spend all our PLN, bought all the things, cost 50pln, still have loads

hey, why is there a huge truck line, this is weird. they’re all just parked…

shit why is some guy waving us to the front of the line

wait why are they asking me for my documents

fuck we’re at the Belarus border

they took our passports and the car rental papers and the registration

fuck fuck fuck

you will have to turn around now, use your GPS thanks

AHA WE GOT AWAY

lots of villages

lots of villages

buys survival celevration snacks

pretty places

ww2 memorial

random servo “there must be food, they have a sitting area” “oh fuck it smells like an ashtray and all they have is chocolate and beer” buys some chocolate

some random servo ‘hi nod’, looks at fridge and grunts looks at other fridge and grunts walks out

more driving

lots of driving

lithuanian border, saw some bored polish customs guys

instantly on edge mobile

road turns to shit, buildings are all just trashed

ten km downt the road, 4g, looks a little less bombed out

weird hot dogs

driving more and more

get to vilnius, is dark, lots of winding streets, find the place, hilarious old medieval gate

went out for dinner

Etno Dvaras on Pilies st - amazing rabbit warren of a place downstairs, winds around and has all these little alcoves and stuff

had all the things

rich mushroom soup in bread bowl, oh. my. gawd. weird spicy cheese balls for rmb

5x brandy things

  • cherry
  • honey
  • rich deep cherry brandy
  • licorice
  • smooth licorice

dumplings with meat for main also potato dumplings with meat and mushroom sauce

venison balls with peas and beetroot and some blueberry? sauce

also some 75% alcohol and some less powerful stuff and some home made vodka which was rough as fuck

all up 55 EUR

stumble back to room, did some washing.

god the internet is shit dd-wrt router with range extenders. turns out if the range extenders have terrible signal (ie, have been moved from the window) it doesn’t work

driving map



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