Happy Days
“The place was awash with scarlet-faced drunks and there wasn’t a single signboard that made the slightest sense. Finally he located the ticket office and bought himself a single to Lublin.
The train left within twenty minutes, clattering out through the suburbs of Warsaw on a day of filmy sunshine sharpened by a biting easterly wind. To his relief, he had a compartment to himself. He’d been up since four in the morning and by the time they hit the open country he was asleep.
The ticket collecto...r woke him up a couple of hours later. It turned out he’d spent some time in the UK visiting relatives in Norfolk and spoke decent English. He also lived in Lublin, and when Winter showed him the address Irenka had emailed him for Pavel Beginski, he drew a pencilled map. The bar, he confirmed, was called Krzywa Wieza. He’d never been there himself, but a friend of his knew it well. Apparently it had changed hands recently and gone downhill, since when his friend, along with the other regulars, had taken their money elsewhere.MoreLess
The train left within twenty minutes, clattering out through the suburbs of Warsaw on a day of filmy sunshine sharpened by a biting easterly wind. To his relief, he had a compartment to himself. He’d been up since four in the morning and by the time they hit the open country he was asleep.
The ticket collecto...r woke him up a couple of hours later. It turned out he’d spent some time in the UK visiting relatives in Norfolk and spoke decent English. He also lived in Lublin, and when Winter showed him the address Irenka had emailed him for Pavel Beginski, he drew a pencilled map. The bar, he confirmed, was called Krzywa Wieza. He’d never been there himself, but a friend of his knew it well. Apparently it had changed hands recently and gone downhill, since when his friend, along with the other regulars, had taken their money elsewhere.MoreLess
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