Scene: A Petrol Station, somewhere on the outskirts of town... - Kaunas, Lithuania
1 Stars This place was Awful visited Aug 16, 2005
Rides: One truck Weather: Hot and Sunny. Sort of too hot and sunny, really. Not that I'm complaining of course... We knew we had found the right spot on the road out of Vilnius when we came across two other hitch hikers waiting on the side of the road. And then another girl came and stood in front of us, and of course got a lift in no time flat. An hour later we were still standing there, waving our signs at the traffic. By now we have signs that say "5km?" and the PL in the oval (the polish car sticker) and of course, the one that says "Istanbul", which tends to make people throw up their hands in horror at us! When someone did stop, it was a lovely brand new air conditioned truck, with a driver who really wanted to know if we were English. So suddenly I was. Luckily we could communicate quite well in a sort of pidgin German - his german was worse than mine! And it was littered with words from other languages like french and english, but that was ok too. He was just setting off on a long trip to England, and, once we convinced him we really didn't want to go to England, he said could take us all the way to Warsaw. But only if we waited 3 hours in the next town while he loaded, and then stayed overnight with him, as he wouldn't get to Warsaw til the next morning. The next hour or so was spent accompanying him while he did all sort of things necessary at the start of a long trip. He filled up on diesel (900 litres takes a long time when you go to a normal petrol station designed for cars...) and then waited for his wife to come to fill up her car with a siphon hose while we hid so she wouldn't see us. For various reasons, we decided not to go all the way to warsaw with him. For a start we had hopes of getting there by the evening, rather than the next morning. And of course, we weren't really interested in the dodgy dodgy lithuanian girly magazine he wanted to show us. Printed in black and white, or rather, blue and white. He dropped us off in what turned out to be an inconvenient spot in Kaunas (the fasted roads from Vilnius to Warsaw involve going in the wrong direction first) dissappointed that we wouldn't accompany him further!