On the move again

Day 11 – 11:05 – 05/06/2010 – In Transit, Poland

I’m writing this from our cabin on the train. We are cruising along with the window open, just me and Laura in a cabin for six, with the window open and the fresh air circulating the cabin. It’s wonderfully relaxing. We’ve had the occasional extra person in for 1 or 2 stops, but the train is mainly empty (this carriage goes into Lithuania, whereas the other half of the train terminates at the last city before the border)

Yesterday was a bit rubbish for me, I felt awful in the morning, with a terrible sore throat – we got up later than usual and didn’t really leave the hotel until 11am and even that was via a stop at the pharmacy which was open – yay!

We got the bus to the town centre and from there walked into old town which is about 1.3km away (according to the signs!) We had a big meal because we knew we were going to go to bed early yesterday. I had soup (to try and make me feel better) and then you’ve guessed it – perogi! I felt a little better after lunch and we headed to the castle to look around (neither of us were particularly feeling energetic and enthusiastic about walking much more than we have been doing!)

During the castle tour I really came down with the shakes and a temperature. We had to leave prematurely (we still saw everything, just not in as much detail) and walked back slowly to the bus stop. We also desperately needed supplies for today and yesterday evening so we reluctantly dragged ourselves around a supermarket on the way back to the hotel.

We got back at about 5:30pm, I slept until 7pm. We went to bed properly at around 10pm for a 05:30 start, which surprisingly, wasn’t as painful as expecting. I don’t have the shakes anymore, just a full blown cold which I am solely blaming on the Canadian girl from the Prague-Krakow train.

I will report thoroughly from Vilnius tomorrow night, when I’ve had chance to see the place, we will be moving 2 hours ahead of the UK this afternoon!