The train journey from Budapest to Warsaw was an extremely interesting experience. I’ve caught a sleeper train before but I’ve never experienced getting into a un-air-conditioned shoe box of a cabin at 1am in the morning with 4 other people already sleeping in the cabin. Then trying to get all our luggage into the cabin and get into our bunks without disturbing the other people sleeping. A completely impossible task. So after a hellish experience on the night train (which was just a couple of hours delayed) we arrived in Warsaw. When we arrived into the train station it seems you have been transported back to the 1980’s in the height of communism. As The station is very dark, bland and concrete, extremely depressing. We were actually trying to find the tourist information office and we came across the police station and were thinking of asking them but it was down this long corridor with lights flicking on and off and seemed to just get darker and darker the closer you got to the office. Very eerie. Once we got into the main part of the city it was amazing. The building and design was beautiful and actually reminded me of Nyhavn in Copenhagen. The most interesting thing about Warsaw was this contrast of the communist style and the old town western European style.
Exhibit A - Palace of Culture and Science
Exhibit A - The main square in the old town
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