I arrived few hours ago in Warsaw, Poland’s capital (maybe it’s somebody that don’t know, yet!). I need some days to accommodate and I hope this accommodation will be an easy one. It’s kind of hard to be not very close to your friends and people that you love. But … in the end I wanted it so!

Rome – I arrived in Rome’s Fiumiciono – Leonardo da Vinci airport, today around 12. One hour and something I have been waiting to see what desk will be the check-in for my flight. Seeing that there is just one more hour till the departure and I was still with my luggage in my hands I went to the information office. A girl told me that it’s at desk 316. I went at 316. Here they were checking-in people for Alitalia flights for Tunis, Catania and Amman. Yes! Exactly three destinations at one desk … Or I am a bit wrong here … for the same destinations were working the girl from 317. I ask if they are making check-in for Alitalia flight to Warsaw. The answer is “yes”. I stayed in the queue but because my flight was leaving first … I had sort of priority. My luggage was almost 24 kg … and they asked me for no money, thing that made me happy. Then, on my way to the gate C2 (that was near the check-in zone) I found 5 euro. J Good now.
I am sitting waiting for the boarding at Gate C2. Unfortunately they don’t have the plane anymore. They sent it to London with a bunch of very angry British people … Angry because they British Airways flight left with 30 minutes before the normal time. So here I am without a plane … and they also moved us at Gate C20. This was not near and I had to take a kind of train, SkyBridge, to that gate. In the end I left in time from Gate C22.

Warsaw – First of all, nobody picked me with “Taxi?”. In Bucharest you will never see this thing happening. Or at least to me it happened most of the time. I went outside of the airport and I took a cab of Radio Taxi (kind of Fly Taxi in Bucharest; but here they are using Mercedes cars). My trip was almost 15 euro. The taxi had even an EPOS … in case you want to pay by credit card.

From the taxi I could saw a small part of the city. Clean, with lots of parks and some skyscraper. We don’t have something similar in Romania and for sure what I saw here is bigger than in Naples. And the thing is that the architecture of these skyscrapers is wonderful. But please, don’t imagine here is New York.

I am living in a ground room from the university where I’ll be studying. The building is nice …. But there is a strange smell around. It is a complex with buildings here. I am not far away from the tram station and also there is a Carrefour and a quite big commercial center at one tram station from here.

At half of hour after my arrival here I decided that I want to go around, and maybe I will find a place where I can buy a Polish number. I get out from the building, I am leaving the walls of the school and I am going directly to a tram station. I was thinking to go in the center and all I knew was that I should take the tram 35. In witch way? Hmmm… I saw a young girl and I am asking her. She is going in the same direction and she offered to me to go together by walking because trams are not working well today. I said ok. She was speaking very good English, she was 25 and she is working in the Ministry of Infrastructure. She was kind of shocked that I choused to come to study and live here, giving that for here Poland is not really over Romania. Yes people! She heard about this country and she knows that the capital is Bucharest and no Budapest. Kidding … even the taxi driver knew this. So the people from small countries know more about countries like theirs.
In the end she saw a tram passing and we went back to the tram station and we took the next one.

Carrefour, Warsaw – I bought one from Orange. They do not have some rows in English about tariffs and so on. They don’t have more tariff plans and they don’t use here euro (like in Italy) or dollars (like in Romania). They used prices in their own currency and this is odd to me. This is another thing that I will have to get used with.

So. The city I think Warsaw is nice and I think I’ll have a bohemian life around here. Still, Naples, with all its noise and madness is my favorite city. It’s a city always alive and I like it, even Zack has another opinion about this thing.
Apart from the thing I would like to have over the street some friends there nothing else I do not like in Warsaw.

In the next two days I will start to discover some small parts of the city and I will let you know about them.