Epilogue

Trip Start Aug 15, 2006
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Trip End Sep 01, 2006


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Friday, September 1, 2006

In Warsaw we landed on the alternative terminal Etiuda that used to be a domestic (military) one but now is being used by the European low-cost airlines. We discovered that this was where the infamous "taxi mafia" has moved from the main Okecie terminal.  Having a good recent experience in Okecie we assumed that the "mafia" was gone but we were wrong.
When we tried to get into the taxi the driver asked us where we wanted to go and then quoted an outrageous fare.  On the matter of principle I quoted back some choice words and we went to a public bus that was waiting at a stop literally 20 metres away.
It certainly was one of those trips that we will remember for a long time. With Iceland having particularly impressed me, I have spent a lot of time (and money) researching various topics, reading a complete history of the country and a number of novels by the country's Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness.  Maybe I'll get a chance to go there again.
And yes, a few months later the Flygbussarna bus company did pay us back the full cost of the taxi and even of the bus tickets for that unfortunate trip to the Stockholm airport.
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