Crossing a border

We sat in the station just outside Warsaw for about 2 hours. During that time we took on some coaches from Prague and Basel. Not sure why it took so long, but no one seemed in a hurry!! We had a lovely view of the river leaving Warsaw, followed by views of towns and farmland. The harvest is in progress but the crop looked poor. The customer and border guards came on at Trespol to check us out of Poland and a few minutes later we were at the Belarus border with more checks and enquiries into where we are going......and how are we going to get home again!!!??

After the border we drew into the station at Brest. We were warned that we would be here for 2 hours, in fact it was over 3 hrs. We were shunted into a shed where the coaches were hoisted up ( with us inside them), the European bogies were removed and the Russian narrower ones put in their place. Whilst we were there a load of women came to the carriage door to sell fruit, bread etc. I got ripped off buying wild strawberries and some more rolls! I shall have to get my head round the currency! We could have got off the train here to go into town, but it was interesting to see the bogie change process.

We are now travelling through Belarus, the town looked poor, and the rail track is definitely not as smooth! The sun is setting behind distant trees.

No sign of any wi-fi anywhere ;)
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