We woke up early this morning and left the squat in Warsaw and took the train to Lublin. I actually was tired from not sleeping so much and didnt even get to take any scenic photos from the train because I fell asleep!

bye bye Warsaw

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The train station at Lublin is quite far from the city center, but also its a big place here and it was hard to tell where the center of lublin is because it seems very spread out.

On my way in the general direction,
I got greeted by a man and woman in a quiet street who said something in polish and then in english as I didnt understand.

They looked a bit punky and so I asked if there was any occupied places here but they said the last one was demolished 5 years ago. The woman said there is a place called "The miricle house" where artists and musicians are living, and tried to direct me to it. Its close to the Plaza shopping center and so I went there thinking to busk and to also just stumble across the place.

Payphones, now relics! - from a zapikanka place in warsaw

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It started of as a really nice day and the plan was to go and play guitar as I only had 10zln left (for the first time ever I have money that I can exchange whilst travelling, which to be honest does take the authenticaty out of things.)
I needed to play a bit to get some dog food and also to not have to swap the NOK I still have, because the exchange places all seemed to be closing.

Not long after I arrived and started to ride towards the town looking for a place to play, it started pissing it down with rain and the winds were insane!

The place that would have been good to play at was the gate in the oldtown, but that was just a tunnel of wind and it was now officially terrible weather.

In normal situations with no money, I would have just waited for the rain to die down and go to pitch the tent out of the city, and wake up to a bright sunny day the next morning - and start again to go busk.

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I woke up on the train when it stopped And someone had stolen the train!

I decided to go to a money exchange and see if they were still open, and they were all closed. There was two old men stood at one on the stairs sheltering from the rain and when they saw me look at the time and saw they closed 5mins before I arrived, one of them said "you need to change money?" - He was happy as he was the owner of the shop, and obliged to exchange it up at a normal rate aswell.

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...and now is when it got a bit crazy...

I was just about to walk off and said goodbye to he old men. I turned to push my bike from against the wall and met anothe guy on his bike, and he said "Hi man come, I have beer and ganja and a place for you to sleep the night."

This guy, I tried to take a photo of him as we were walking, with his odd colourful shoes and a yellow builders hardhat on..
Of course its good to always say yes to oppertunitys whilst travelling and its wet and windy, and for the first few minutes of walking whilst he was talking, I had good vibes.

It was when we got to his yard that I realised that it wasnt really a good idea, just as he said "yes your welcome to put tent here, and your things at the bottom of the stairs, I have water from the river for your dogs.."

He had previously told me that he was spending time recently in a mental home, but well that didnt make me think it was a bad idea to go there. I told him straight away that I would just come for a drink and a smoke and then go with the tent to sleep in some nature and so that was the plan. Be fucked if I was going to stay there for any longer as it was clear by now that he was well crazy.

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We went upstairs and then He opened the door and his old mum was stood there in the kitchen and it was also quite obvious that we was also a crazy.

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Next was the doorbell ringing and it was an angry nieghbour saying about the dogs outside downstairs. She was going mental! The guy said that I should bring the dogs up to the appartment and so I went down to be faced with 2 screaming polish korvas full on with adrenaline svmcreaming in my face. I was well fucking wound up and it took me a while to shout in back in their face "I dont understand Polish"!!

I went to get the dogs and my things in and the nieghbours wouldnt open the main door. I went fucking mental. I had left my phone upstairs and now these two polish women had locked me out.

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The guy came down and I was so angry I had to just run up to his appartment pushing through all the people on the stairwell to take my phone, and said goodbye. I was so close to causing serious damage and spitting in korvas faces.

To be completly honest- POLAND is just crap.

I have no other reason to be here now, only to meet up with shepz, tomorrow Im leaving poland, and will go to czech republic instead. This country - was fucked by Germany and then turns out to be exactly the same or if not even worse!

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Lets see where the night leads to!
@movingman

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