Poland Trip
Just got back from 4 days in Warsaw in Poland. We stayed at the Oki Doki hostel, which was my first hostel experience. On the first night, because I booked separately, I was led off from the comfort of actually staying with anyone I knew and had to share with 7 other strangers. Properly weird. Nice though, pretty freindly - once you get into the idea of a hostel is to pretty much chat shit to people all day.
I had to stay on the top bunk, and crept into the room at about 4am. Everyone was already asleep as most people were bumming around Europe on a £3 budget and evenings were traditionally about reading, pool and generally wasting a year in the most unconstuctive means possible. I however, was putting my time to great use by poisoning my body on as much Vodka as they could serve.
This was possibly the worst night, as I after about 5 seconds, realised that I needed a pee, so took my drunkeness to the toilet, waking everyone up a second time by crashing into everything in my path. So, after a night of holding in farts (I was a mixed dorm, I'm not an animal), being careful not to snore and trying to lie in silence, I put myself in for transfer.
Re-bonded with my pals, I could be myself and not have to worry about noise or being a drunken English arse.
So the rest of the trip was pretty much the same deal. When its 50p a pint, or about a quid for a very large vodka, there's not really a choice.
There was one moment when we decided to do something other than drink, purely so that we had something else to say to parents and girlfriends that could possibly form the beginnings of a conversation. We went to an old Nazi Prison where the SS pretty much sank to the lowest forms of humanity during the German occupation of the second world war. Very interesting, and slightly depressing, but worth going to. The stark contrast from the evening's activities was a little surreal, and hard to believe it didn't happen all that long ago.
Nazis aside, we then set out about town for night number two. We started off in the hostel, spoke to loads of people, really interesting folk from around the world, relentlessly knocking back 50p drinks before heading out to the streets to visit the vast array of night spots dotted around the city center. :)
I had to stay on the top bunk, and crept into the room at about 4am. Everyone was already asleep as most people were bumming around Europe on a £3 budget and evenings were traditionally about reading, pool and generally wasting a year in the most unconstuctive means possible. I however, was putting my time to great use by poisoning my body on as much Vodka as they could serve.
This was possibly the worst night, as I after about 5 seconds, realised that I needed a pee, so took my drunkeness to the toilet, waking everyone up a second time by crashing into everything in my path. So, after a night of holding in farts (I was a mixed dorm, I'm not an animal), being careful not to snore and trying to lie in silence, I put myself in for transfer.
Re-bonded with my pals, I could be myself and not have to worry about noise or being a drunken English arse.
So the rest of the trip was pretty much the same deal. When its 50p a pint, or about a quid for a very large vodka, there's not really a choice.
There was one moment when we decided to do something other than drink, purely so that we had something else to say to parents and girlfriends that could possibly form the beginnings of a conversation. We went to an old Nazi Prison where the SS pretty much sank to the lowest forms of humanity during the German occupation of the second world war. Very interesting, and slightly depressing, but worth going to. The stark contrast from the evening's activities was a little surreal, and hard to believe it didn't happen all that long ago.
Nazis aside, we then set out about town for night number two. We started off in the hostel, spoke to loads of people, really interesting folk from around the world, relentlessly knocking back 50p drinks before heading out to the streets to visit the vast array of night spots dotted around the city center. :)
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