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Ukraine 2010 trip report - Getting there

Poland
Capital	Warsaw
Language(s)	Polish. English is understood fairly well.
Religion	Christianity
Electricity	European - 50 Hz / 230 V
People	Very friendly
Traffic	Nothing special
Prices	Average
Currency	Złoty
Visa	Schengen
Hiking	Not tested

This is a continuum for my trip report from Morocco. After getting out from Tangier I flew back to Bergamo, Italy. The flight was almost empty and I was lucky to have free seats next to me in the plane. In some minutes I was already seeing some sweet dreams.

Bergamo still was the nice old city it had been about two weeks earlier. This time the weather wasn't as burning hot as it had been the last time so it was a lot more pleasant to walk around and admire the nice architecture and sceneries. Unfortunately the city isn't that big and I had seen pretty much everything already the first time. After walking around here and there I found a book shop with literature in English and bought 'The Road' for about ten or eleven euros.

The following hours I spent reading the book in a park on top of the old town of Bergamo. The book was probably the worst one I've ever read and the time really didn't pass by too quickly. Eventually the night fell and I took a bus back to the airport and started searching for a nice place for sleeping. I would have used the same bush I used on the way to Morocco but it was raining outside and I didn't feel like getting wet so I was forced to search for something new. Not before long I found a nice and relatively quiet place in the terminal, laid my mattresses on the floor and started sleeping.

This pleasure didn't go on for long since some worker from the airport woke me and some other people nearby up and told us to leave. I don't know the reason for this but it was annoying as hell. Again I had to search for some new quiet place and I knew they were scarce. I didn't feel like sleeping inside anymore because it seemed to be forbidden so I used the quietest dry place I found outside and started sleeping again. It was surprisingly cold outside and the place I used wasn't completely dry either: some drops of water fell on my face every now and then.

I didn't get much sleep in the night and I was really glad when it was finally time to get up and on the plane. This time the flight was pretty full and sleeping wasn't as easy as it was on the way to Bergamo. On the way to the final destination I had a short stop in Katowice, Poland. The airport Wizzair uses in Katowice is actually pretty far away from the center and the four-euro bus trip took over an hour from the airport to the center.

Katowice proved to be a nice old Polish city and I've started to wonder if there are any ugly cities in Poland at all? The people were really helpful and polite too. I spent about three or four hours in the center and took the same bus back to the airport. While I was waiting at the airport a small trashbin somehow burst into fire and a huge firetruck came to the rescue. A slight overkill if you ask me. For some reason the airport was packed with people and I had to queue for check-in for almost an hour. And of course the first time I finally got to the desk I was there too early and had to queue again a short while later. A nice British family came to me after seeing the incident at the check-in desk to ask if everything's alright. The British people keep on amazing me with their politeness and kindness.

Finally at about 7 pm I boarded the plane and started the final flight on the way to Ukraine. Less than two hours later I was at the Kiev-Borispol airport and met Inna there. One more hour and we were in the apartment Inna had rented for us in the center of Kiev and we finally had to rest we both deserved!

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