Poland-Romania world cup 2018 elimination

At 11 of November 2016 polish national football team was supposed to play a match against Romania in elimination to World Cup 2018 in Russia. We were really exited about this match mainly because it was to take place in Bucharest and we've managed to buy ourselves tickets.

At the day of the match we've painted on our cheeks polish flags and went to the town to drink some beers before the game. We felt a little bit ashamed at the bar because on TV we could see reports about polish team supporters destroing the city.... Around 2 hours before the match started we went to catch the bus that goes to the stadium. Although stadium wasn't that far away from the city center we barely made it at time - it took very long for polish supporters to enter. We were searched couple of times and there were some riots with the police that slowed the line down.

Fortunatley, we've made it right on time for the polish national anthem. After we sang the match started.

The match was very fortunate for us - Polish team has won 3-0 with Romania so we were really happy about the outcome of the game. For me I was only time that I've seen polish national team playing on stadium, so defienetly, it was good introduction in the world of football. However, I found the behaviour of some polish team supporters quite embarrassing and disappointing. At the stadium many of them were calling romanian stuff 'gypsys' with was unfortunate because in polish in romanian we use the same word to descripe this enticity.

My romanian trips Chisinau, Odessa - part. 4

The next day we were strolling around the Oddesa a little bit. I was suprised by the city's architecture. The city was quite simmilar to romanian Constanta, but surprisingly, much better preserved. Unfortunatley we were there during the winter - I think that this has way more to offer atsome other, warmer time of year.

After sightseeing we wanted to party a little bit, but the city was depressingly empty. We went to some local bars, had couple of beers but nothing was really happening. At some point we went to some outside winter market where we had mulled wine and there we've met some great ukrainan pepole with whom we were talking for a while.

Although it was really cold the mulled wine wamed us up and we were roaming around the city for a while. Unfortunatley the next day we were supposed to go back to Romania.

The next day we had a breakfast in local mall, and then we went to the store to buy some food for the way and, of course, some cheap ukrainan vodka as a suvenire. Around 6 PM we got to the bus and the way back  was AWFUL. It was 12 hours of constant bouncing and jumping in the unheated small vechicle on terrible hungover. Moreover, the diver was playing some kind of dumb russian cabarets at full volume. We had to cross Ukrainian-Moldovian border three times because the only road that was possible to drive on leaded in such way. Everytime on border we've been searched by the patrols with ak's and we had to wait outside in the terrible cold.

We got to Bucharest at the moring and I finally felt like in home.

My Romanian trips - Iasi, Chisinau si Odessa part 3.

The next day we got up quite early in order to walk aroud the city before our bus to Odessa. We've seen some more monuments but unfortunatley we didn't have that much time - our bus was leaving at 1 PM. We've bought ourselves some food for the journey and we entered the bus. Traveling conditions were quite harsh - it was really cold in the bus and the roads were full of holes so the vechicle kept on bouncing the entire time. Fortunatley the journey didn't take that long; we arrived at Odessa in 5 hours.

On the road again

After we arrived in Odessa we had to find a way to our accommodation. We booked an apartment on airbnb so we had to meet with our landlord first in order to get our kees. Fixing details of meeting wasn't all that easy because he was speaking only russian. Luckily I was learing russian in hight school so I was able to communicate with him on the basic level. After all he proved to be a really nice person - he even picked us up from the bus station and gave us a lift to our apartment.

Warming up in our apartment.

We we got to our accommodation it turned out to be really cold - owner told us that it was unheated since the last winter. We were quite dissapionted with that fact, but the price that we had to pay for this apartment was really low; considering that and a fact that we were staying in the city center we couldn't complain. Fortunatley the girls had hair dryers so we were able to warm our apartment up with those wonderful devices. I was really glad that we were able to rise the temperature level because at one point I was thinking that I'm going to freeze to death.

After a while spent in our apartment we went out to eat some dinner. We got to the one of the most fancy restaurants in the city but still prices were really afordable there - I had the best beer in my life for equivalent of 4 PLN.

Unpasteurized chernihivske beer