Road Cheap

Day 10-12 : Auschwitz ☠️

We woke up at 2PM and we were mostly on our phones as we had to make plans for the upcoming days. Then, we watched documentaries about Auschwitz, in order to visit it the next day. ☠️

During the evening, we ate at a french crêperie because it was Ania's dream. There, we met Dylan, the cook who we talked a lot with 👨‍🍳 When we came back home, we each told some personal stories until 3AM 🌙

The next day, we went to Auschwitz I (concentration camp) and Auschwitz II-Birkenau (extermination camp). Even in front of the obvious, it was very hard to imagine the atrocities that were comitted by the n***s ☠️ The main entrance of the extermination camp, watchtowers every 100m, barbed wire and the houses of prisoners were especially touching. The rails on which 1,3 million people were deported were also very meaningful 🤢

Back at Kraków, we met Alex, Michel and Charbel, 3 cool lebanese guys 🇱🇧 And then, we came back home and had our last dinner with Ania 😋 All together, we watched the french series "Bref" and Ania loved it. For the last time, we talked until 3:45AM and learned a few hours before departure, that she is working on a PhD in psychology 🤯 It was heartbreaking to say goodbye to Ania. Her kindness, positivity, ingenuity and curiosity made her the best person of our trip ❤️

We left Kraków on the 12th day. We took the train where we had an afternoon nap 😴 Then, we met Mauricio again and visited Torún, the beautiful hometown of Nicolaus Copernicus 🔭 We finally reached Bydgoszcz where our friends from Rwanda invited us to sleep 😊

David Thiaw & Sebastian Lungu

(1/2) Day 9 : « S**t always happens » - A lawyer 👨‍🎓

Leo had never seen snow before 😍🌨️ We woke up at 5:30AM, in order to go to Zakopane, a city known for its mountains and its frozen lake 🗻 When we arrived there, we had a lot of fun making Mr. Jalapeños, the 1st snowman Leo ever built ☃️ We were also waiting for Aravind who is an indian friend of ours that missed the bus 🇮🇳

Since David's backpack was heavy (containing his vest and all of his documents), he put it aside and noticed that after a couple of minutes, it had disappeared. We did notice a homeless person passing by so we thought he took it 🎒🛒😱 So we started to look for it and went in front of an abandonned house, that a cheese seller recommended David to check 🧐 It was inhabited by homeless people and David got the intuition that his goods were inside🐶

We luckily met some policemen and some english-polish translators who were able to explain the situation 🚔 The police entered the house and found his bag, but empty... Afterwards, they invited David to go to the police office, while Seb, Leo, Aravind and our translator friends went for a hike. 🏔️

David :
« I was telling the story at the police office for hours, while accepting more and more of the reality that I would never find my stuff again... 😢 Suddenly, I got a call from some policemen who found my vest with all of my papers 😍 I was so happy and I was able to get out of the police office at 2:30PM 😃
I came back to tell Kinga what happened. She was the cheese seller who helped 😁 I also had the time to go for a walk in the city center of Zakopane🚶»

Day 7-8 : Christmas 🎅🎄

We slept in until noon and went shopping before the shops closed 🛒 We bought a lot of food and Christmas gifts for Ania : some flowers and an argentinian wine 🌺🐘

Then, we prepared a typical polish Christmas meal 🎅 : some red barszcz soup with beetroot, pierogi (delicious dumplings with mushrooms and cabbage 🥟🍄), sałatka jarzynowa (salad) and sernik (polish cheesecake 🍰).

There is a polish tradition where families prepare an extra plate for a person in-need that may join the table on Christmas Eve 💝 Therefore, Ania's wish was to invite 3 homeless people for dinner 🤲, but they refused. So we offered them a Christmas meal and wished them "Wesołych Świąt" (=Merry Christmas) 🎅 Back at home, we had Christmas dinner 🥟 My Christmas gift was the only thing I needed : a power nap, against the accumulated tireness 😃

Then, Ania's sister came and we all went to the midnight's Christmas Mass ⛪ While coming back home, I talked a lot to Ania, as if we had always been good friends 😊 Meeting a stranger with whom we have a good feeling and living such great moments, as Christmas, is always the best part of trips 🎅💓 We had pizza and talked until 5AM 🍕

During this day, Leo met a french priest by chance who accepted to do a Mass in french 🇨🇵 The next day we went for it. After the Mass, the priest invited us to drink tea, and it was also the occasion to talk to him ☕ We learned that he had been a priest in France, in Italy, in the USA, in Argentina and now in Poland, and that he used to be a shooting instructor in the french army 🗺️🔫

While coming back to Ania's flat, we visited Kazimierz, the jewish district of Kraków (Casimir was the polish king who gave a city to the jewish people) ✡️ The atmosphere was loomy, because most of the jewish people there had been deported during the 2nd world war 🕍

Back at home, we prepared a vegetarian lasagna for Anie until midnight and prepared ourselves for tomorrow 💅😂

David Thiaw & Sebastian Lungu

Day 4 : 3 pornstars play basketball 👨‍👨‍👦🏀

We woke up at 12PM at Zuzanna's flat, sore as f**k from the ski 🤕 We lunched on the lasagna from yesterday and said goodbye to Zuzanna and Wanda her cat 😿

On our way to leave Warsaw, we planned to visit some cultural monuments, which we hadn't done at all yet 🏛️ But our attention was caught by the first cannabis shop that we saw, where we bought some hash flavored lollipops and teaHC 🍭👅🍵

Then, we were late so we took the funniest Uber ever 😂 The belarussian driver drove very badly and we had to indicate her the directions for an entire hour. When Sebastian showed her the directions, he unpurposely showed her a picture of a huge piece of crap 💩🚽

Watch the videos for the next paragraph 😎 :
We finally arrived at our meeting point with Mauricio, our friend from yesterday 😩 We met at a trampoline park where we had a lot of fun 😂 : we did some Ninja Warrior's parkours, played basketball on trampolines and had the funniest shower of our lives ⛹️‍♂️🚿 But Leo and David almost got paraplegic while learning to backflip ☠️⚰️

We were able to take the train where we learned how to say "f**ksh*t" in polish (=Jebać to g***o) 🤙 and we got our tickets controlled for our 3rd time since the beginning of the trip 👮‍♂️

At last, we reached Błonie where we're gonna sleep in Mauricio's 9m² co-living. Mauricio doesn't stop farting in his sleep while we're writing this article, despite our psychological breakdown 💨🧟‍♂️

David Thiaw & Sebastian Lungu