I’m currently in Warsaw. I should be somewhere between Warsaw and Kiev right now, on an overnight sleeper train that I arranged to go on some time ago. Unfortunately I didn’t read the ticket properly and turned up at the wrong station for my departure. The result was that I couldn’t see my train on the departure board and only realised when it was too late. As the taxi driver outside said (when asked if he could get me to the correct station in time); “impossible”. Oh. Dear.

On the plus side, it only cost about 30 Euros to re-arrange and I’m staying in the same hostel in Warsaw, with the same bed. Instead of sharing the room with stinky men, I’m in here with a load of Polish women. Luckily, my connecting train leaves late enough the next day that I only needed to re-arrange the the Warsaw – Kiev train; the Kiev – St. Petersburg train is the original one I booked. Never mind!