24 September
Bialystok to Warsaw
Get a taxi from the hotel to the station for 15
Zloty which saves me the walk and the carrying my bag over the footbridge
across the railway tracks. The train come in on Platform III, Track 3; I really
can't understand the need for both platform and track numbers. Interestingly
the railway signs are all in Polish, English and Russian; if Poland can do it, why can't the Baltic
states? The train has come from Gdynia
on the coast and goes all the way to Katowice in
Southern Poland, a long L shaped route.
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| Bialystok Station |
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| Train to Warsaw |
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| From Gdynia to Katowice |
The
train has compartments and I have a window seat opposite the only other
passenger in the compartment, a woman whose English is no better than my Polish, so no conversation. Not long after leaving, a man with a trolley comes by so I
get a cup of coffee. Most of the journey is through flat farmland, except for
some sandy forest. We pass through Legionowa which appears to be a railway
junction and has a big station with lots of platforms but we don't stop.
Realise we are close to Warsaw
now and we race through several big stations which I guess are served by local
trains.
Arrive on time at Warszawa Centralna, a
big, modern station with all the platforms underground so it take me a while to
get my bearings and work out which exit to take. Once I manage to find the exit
for Aleje Jerozolimskie, it is about a 10 minute walk to the Metropol hotel.
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| Arriving in Warsaw |
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| Warsaw Central Station |
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