Nov 7 Sat - Warsaw to Sosnowiec

November 10, 2026

Nov 7 Sat - Warsaw to Sosnowiec

WARSAW CENTRAL CITY

Nov 7 Sat - Warsaw to Sosnowiec Poland

Up on time and all finished packing cleaning up the Bolt app says 17 mins to the train station that’s what I’ll do tho similar time taking the tram which is free. Get outside oh 9 minutes wait for a Bolt and 9 minutes walk to the tram… so I walk it get to the station in plenty of time over 30 minutes early and the train only shows up about 10 minutes before departure.

Get on there first class is nice, window seat with a big drop down table and the girl comes by with a menu food and drinks. Well I get there about 1 and had breakfast about 9 so why not, I order a caprese salad and it was so good with pesto… pull out my card to pay, no charge … wow this is nice, service at your seat with china too… and It was good. Now I am looking at logistics when I get there train station to hotel is 2 miles, then another 2+ miles from there to the hockey arena so I will be using Bolt there I guess… once I get to the hotel check my bags with them, or check in if the room is ready, then see how much time there is map says 56 minutes walk so we will see. The first game is at 2:45, the second one at 6:45 so not sure if I’ll have time for anything in between. May end up with nachos at the stadium lol… nice ride and mostly it’s like Illinois here lots of farm fields a few cows and horses here and there… lots or pretty trees white birch and evergreen along the train tracks. Spotty data connections here so I’m putting this all into a note and I’ll pull it over later along with the pics from yesterday and today.

Another travel day, what confusion it was about using the Interrail (was Eurail when i booked it) Pass, get onto the Interrail site and add the journey to the trip, get everything set and at the very end... you cannot book seat reservations (required) on this app... go to one of these other sites, which non are LTG Lithuania, you can't book on PKP Poland rail or OBB Austria rail, or Leo Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Austrias rail...

So I know I'm in Lithuania go on LTG nope can't book first class, so I book 2nd class... get to the station they are like oh there is first class available for 24.60€ you bought the wrong ticket... lol... try on the train.

So I get out early wait for the train to open ask the first conductor i see no she doesn't speak english. Young lady there offers to translate she says it should be OK... I get on in the first class cabin another conductor that speaks english gets on and after explaining it all and showing my ticket she gives me a seat and scans my ticket. wow what next lol... well, when I get to Mochava Lithuania, it's a change of trains onto a Polish PKP high speed train and I already have a 2nd class seat reserved so I may just say hell with it sit there for the 4 hours trip... we will see...

Pretty countryside the white birch trees are giving way to regular trees oaks and chestnuts and hardwoods like we are more used to.. most of the leaves are off now and there are fewer everygreens right now...

But I did get first class all the way and it was nicer. Got a Bolt to the hotel 130 and they checked me right in so had time to put bags away and get a Bolt to the hockey arena early, since I didn't know if there would be concessions I packed trail mix and a bar in case, but then there was a concession with one of the few polish words I know Kielbasa lol on the menu and it was good. So was the hockey the crowd was very lively chanting clapping POLSKA ! clap clap clap POLSKA ! clap clap clap... and they won over Britain 4-1 a good number of brit fans were there.

After the game there was almost 90 minutes between games I see on the map a burger joint at the corner where the sports crowd goes after games so I walked down there in the chilly misty fog and got in just before everyone else who stayed for the presentation of whatever and the polish national anthem singing... but only meat on the menu so a burger wow first meat on the trip and it's all together. They had 0% something Lecky beer which went fine and the steak cut fries were great.

Walk back to the arena for the Ukraine-Italy game, they are 1-2 in the group so winner wins the group. Lots of Ukraine fans well, there must have been all of about 3 or 400 people in the stands so they stood out... they kept chanting YOO KRY EEN AA ! and it was a really good hard fought game both teams were good Ukraine won 3-2 then for the national anthem playing I stayed the players all took off their gloves and threw down their sticks and were all arm in arm in a line people crying in the stands... it was something to see.

Bolt back to the hotel and lights out its another travel day tomorrow! I thought about walking it was about 1.5 miles but... once outside it was shivery cold misty foggy about 0 (32) or so I guess no hell with this Bolt was there in about 3 minutes.