it was short after my russia trip that olga and i decided to visit our friend lukasz in poland. he lives in bielsko-biala. so we met today today at the railway-station in vienna to leave for poland at around 07:00 in the morning. the train ride[01-09] took us more than seven hours. unfortunately we got off at the wrong station, so we ended up on an abandoned railway station, namely bielsko-biala north[09-18]. since i like abandoned stuff, i enjoyed the station. yet, we had an appointment with lukasz at the main station, so we tried to get there somewhere else, since there was no timetable or any other information about the next train to the right station on the platform. so we found a nearby bus station[10] where we called lukasz. he told us the next train will be in 20mins. so we got back to the station again. olga's phone was broken as soon as she landed in vienna, which gave us troubles. we changed phones from time to time, so she could text her people at home and i could still be available for calls or text messages. this solution worked quite well. so, later than we had planned we finally met with lukasz and his girlfriend at the main station. we then drove to the hotel by bus, checked in, and left our luggage there, got back to the city again (the ride took us about 30 minutes to get to the centre of the town). on the main square we went to a restaurant to have some typical polish dish, named "zurek"[19] (aka sour rye soup), an edible bowl made of bread filled with boiled potatoes and sausage inside. quite tasty. lukasz then showed us around a bit. we came by a pissing boy[20-21] (like the manneken pis in bruxelles). for the rest of the evening we were strolling around the streets[22-27] of bielsko-biala.