Woe unto thee, trains of Polska

26th February 2010



Goodbye February, a tedious month full of annoyances. Top of my black list this time round are two old enemies: trains and waiters. The lines between Poland and the normal world are growing increasingly blurred, so it comes as a sharp shock when things go wrong.

First things first, I’ve defended Polish trains to the hilt in the past, and I’m the first to appreciate that their record of getting you from A-B in an alive condition is considerably superior to that of British locomotives. Neither do they get cancelled for ‘patients on the track’, ‘herons mating’ or ‘the wrong kind of snow’ (all genuine excuses used at one time or other). But that’s beside the point, and ther ...