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We landed in Szczecin Airport at around 3ish yesterday and after getting our baggage from the only carosel in the airport we were off exploring... we took a hideously overpriced cab to our hotel in the city centre and checked in within an hour, so far so good!
The whole place looks like an ex-communist building-block city, our hotel looks like one giant.. well, block. But inside it's okay, like any hotel anywhere. We shouldn't get used to it though, only our first two nights are in a hotel, the rest is all hostels!
We have a HUGE shopping centre right next to us so we mooched around that for a bit yesterday, checked out the many pretty girls here and had a wonder. We found some huge posh-looking building by accident but still don't really know what it was. Found that everything is either really good (bi pretty buildings, mercedes and BMW's about the place) or really crap (grotty looking run-down tower-blocks and... skodas) and it's all mixed in together! Feels quite odd. The weather was and is quite cloudly, it rained yesterday and had a bit of sunshine today so I've been traipsing around with sunglasses and jumpers together.
It took us FOREVER to find a restaurant yesterday, but when we did it was AWESOME! Perhaps 'cause we were so hungry but it was porbably the best food I've had in a long time! However, every other page in the menu was women kissing or feeding each other and Adam was the only man in the place so we came to the conclusion that we'd stumbled across a lesbian pizza resturant..
Shamefully, our first 'day' ended up with us crashing into bed at about 9! But if you don't drink or gamble there isn't much to do here..
This morning we had a blissfully alarm-free lay-in (despite my many redundant nightmares about missing trains etc) and headed out to find breakfast. We ended up having a mini English-Polish exchange lesson with a pastry shop girl and got some odd but delicious galric-sausage bread and pain-au-chocolate. Yum. I also bought some bright orange trousers :)
We bought our train tickets fro tomorrow - to stop me obsessing about it - with the kind translation of a stranger in the queue behind us. It's quite a shock how many people don't speak English, but I suppose I am used to more touristy areas. Adam has a phrase book and bravely blunders his way through interactions in shops etc, I just have the annoying British habit of speaking louder and louder English with mad gestures until they get me. It gets me by! (Although I did end up with a cover-up stick three shades darker than my skin because of it)
This afternnon/evening we went to a restuarant names 'Colorado' which was pretty much just an English pub with American decor. Nice food though, overlooking the river where they were setting up a huge stage and festival-like decorations.. something we know nothing about and no one has mentioned! We're leaving tomorrow anyway so it's probably best we don't find out, incase it's something we'd really like to see!
We've found a sauna in the hotel amongst about 3 or 4 basic treadmill-type things so we're probably going to head up and chill out (or warm-up) there. I want to go in the Casino but Adam - rightly - thinks it would be an expensive trip! There's currently a Prom-looking event happening in the restuarant and and all I can hear is girls squealing a EuroTrash dance blaring out of the speakers so I'm going to sign off now, I hope the UK is rainy.. Goodbye!
P.s I think this should end up on Facebook.. hopefully!
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