The next morning feeling fresh we got awoken at 5am by someone waiting to get the first bus of the day. It had just started to get light and it was freezing cold. I had to get to Sandomierz, and from there take a train, swapping one time to get to Krakow.
I wrote a note for the kind school teacher who brought me hot homemade soup in the night before and had offered me a place to go sleep at, and left the spoon and glass jar for her to collect again.
It was 22km to the trainstation and the train was at 10.47 so I had plenty of time to get there, but as usual it takes me twice as long atleast than what maps says it will take to get there. I think Google maps when you input a cycling route, calculates the cycling time on a speed of 15km per hour, but if you travel with dogs then you do around 8km ph average. I had no Polish money left but had Norwiegen Krone to exchange and was hoping that there was a currency exchange in Sandomierz because I had no chnce to play guitar because the day before I had been shouting at my brown dog to return from chasing deer;s across a field and was hardly able to talk, let alone sing for money for a train ticket.
Just before leaving Chalowice I found a small supermarket and dumpster-dived some yogurts and fish for the dogs, and we stopped at a busstop to eat.
The busstop had no timetable and the space looked blank, so I decided to do some crypto advertisement..
The way to Sandomierz was all flat, and it involved a crossing a very shallow river on a small boat but I didnt take any pics as it was like 6.30am and I forgot. The water was so shallow that the ferry for the cars wasnt running and just the one for foot passangers and bikes could cross. the guy showed me with the paddle how shallow it was- it was only around 30cm deep!
Just entering Sandomierz I saw a group of houses and buildings completely deserted and open, and places like this confuse me as to why people don't just move in there and live for free..
Here's a 360 view from a gas station in Sandomierz, it was quite a messy place and very industrial.
I was told that the only exchange place was in the shopping mall, over the river and so off we went to go find it.
Success!! Happily got some money exchanged and then headed back towards the train station. I remembered seeing there a restaurant that I had past and on the way back I had an hour before the train came and so I treated to a meal of Shabowy, basically its a schnitzel, and this one wasn't very tasty to be honest.
Sandomierz Trainstation!
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It felt good to get on the train without being refused entry before boarding but ofcourse there was some kind of hiccup of which I made a post about just after it happened.. which was quite hilarious and very cheeky.
On the second train I was relaxing happy to be on route back to Krakow and with a cooler conductor than before, but it was a bit windy inside the train carriage so I went to find the open window to close it..
Oh! It wasn't a window that was open - it was a door!
It seemed that the last person in didn't close it, and the train workers didn't manage to spot that it wasn't shut before the train left. I'm lucky that my bike was still there as it could have easily rolled backwards and fell out of the fast moving train. It was quite a buzz to try to close it but the train was going over 100km ph and there wasn't much chance to try and stop it.
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I will stay now in Krakow with @byegoogle, check out their new self made tattoos on the toes! I think they are really cool!
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