Destruction road trip: Tuesday, Day 3: Vilnius - POLAND

Third day and fifth country coming up. We're really on the fast lane as countries keep changing quickly. During hostel breakfast we met a Finnish girl who was traveling alone by bus and told that she got all the way to Vilnius from Tallinn for only 40 euros in a bus equipped with Internet connection. Not expensive and should be a fun way to travel as well!

Very nice example of Polish roads

This day consisted driving smaller roads, avoiding the bigger Via Baltica route to Poland and Warzaw. It was about a 500 km drive through small villages and very fine country roads using 16 and 61 routes. Roads were in excellent for the most part of the route, but in the more populated areas there were some holes to avoid. Amount of traffic was surprisingly low and other than couple of dangerous overtakes by cars going way past speed limit, it was generally safer than I thought. Sun was shining and we were in no hurry keeping breaks at gas stations, so it was a very, very fine day doing road trippin'.

When we finally arrived in the vicinity of Warzaw, the road conditions changed to outright horrible. The problem of metropolitan areas; Too much traffic to cut the road to make proper repairs, so if there's a hole, it's patched individually. That makes the road very bumpy and hard to drive. But we avoided all the traffic jams and found our hostel for next two nights without too much trouble. After unpacking our bags to our room, it was time to eat and head out to the city to get some beers.

Everything went smoothly, if you don't factor in the language barrier in a fast-food type restaurant, where we, nor the staff know what everyone was saying. But the food we got was excellent, sometimes it's not that important to know what you're eating!

The night was about to end without problems, until arriving back to our hostel in a taxi. We agreed a price of 30 zlotys, but taxi driver insisted the price being 40 zlotys. It was a matter of principal now, and we argued not to pay more than 30 zl while me, Aleksi and Petri were outside the car. JP was in the front seat arguing, when suddenly the driver took off with JP to left us puzzled that what the f*ck just happened?! We were about to call the police when JP walked to Petri from the other way just saying "what's up"? In the end he had to agree with the 40 zl price, as the driver was acceleting towards highway ... with JP having no idea where he was heading. The incident ended peacefully as the driver drove JP bacck, but man ours and especially JP's adrenaline was high after figuring out what happened.

Better to sleep without any alarm clocks waking us up next morning. And anyways no reason to, because wednesday was to be the first car(e)less day of the trip!

Here's more photos from Vilnius to Warzaw.