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Yesterday I finally bought a Volkswagen T3, the camper. :D



The car was made in 1979, and had 1.6 gasoline engine, air-cooled. The guy who owned it bought a second T3, with diesel 1.6 naturally aspirated engine and installed the engine in the camper.



The van is equipped with: gas stove, gas/electric (12/220 volts) refrigerator, a sink, many cupboards, a bed and a table.

The most pleasant experience with the camper -- yesterday for the first time I bought diesel fuel, not the gasoline, which is more expensive.

Yesterday I came home to Warsaw from the Woodstock Stop festival (which is said to be the largest open-air music festival in Europe). There was 150,000 - 200,000 people, rock and metal music and many litres of beer.

If there were my friends and the music I like to listen to, I'd be happy with the festival. But I wasn't, since I don't like the rock and metal enough to listen to it all the time. And the only people I knew there was Ania and couple of her "friends".

I used quotation mark, since they first acted as her friends and on sunday morning went home couple of hours before us, without waking us up, as if we were complete strangers to them.

If I go there next year (I think about it, Ania said she's fed up with Woodstock but I'll try to work on it) we'll sleep in a van and go there by van, not by train. The return by train took 9 hours in very uncomfortable EN57. I don't believe it was built for long-distance travels since it's rather slow and has seats made of plastic and not enough toilets to handle many drunk young people...

So my girlfriend asked me to go there and I agreed. I am a simple man, who almost always agrees to do what his girlfriend asks. This is the first time for me to travel with EuroCity train (Warsaw-Berlin, I'm using it to get to Rzepin and from there with another train -- to Kostrzyn).

One might ask why did I agree to go there while I didn't want to. It's simple -- I'll do anything to be close the girl I love.

I don't know why she had to go to the Woodstock Stop today, but she did. This makes the next four nights very difficult...

I hope she doesn't do anything stupid... If she does, I will just leave her and then I won't care.

Tomorrow starts the most difficult week in my entire life.

Let's start with the monday. I told that I'll be at work at 6 AM, because we need to prepare a very important Power Point presentation that'll be shown at the Brussels to some very important people. After that is done I have another large thing to work on. I was given a large project to handle and I'm the only responsible for the success or the failure. This means that there's noone else to authorise my decisions or to save me from doing something wrong. That kept me awake last night.

The second thing is my B.Sc. thesis I need to finish until the end of july. This is only difficult in the mean of finding time for doing it.

The third, probably the most important and difficult problem is my girlfriend Ania going to the Przystanek Woodstock on thursday. This festival is the place to be for the people like Ania, who like rock and metal music. I don't like those genres and will not be able to leave work at thursday so I don't go there with Ania (I don't want to ruin her fun with my bad frame of mind). And because of that I am afraid that she'll find there someone who's more interesting for her than I am. This will keep me awake at thursday, friday and saturday nights... I hope that she'll agree that I'll phone her twice a day and she'll send me two smses when she gets up and goes to sleep, and that she'll not say that I'm trying to remote control her.

I don't know how I'll handle the end of the week. To keep my thoughts away from the Woodstock Stop I'll drink a lot of alcohol and work my ass of... At the moment I'm listening to A State Of Trance #240, by Armin van Buuren. I think that this tune with an addition of vodka will heal my pain...

Yesterday we went to Włocławek to buy Volkswagen T4 bus. The car was supposed to cost $3,000 and because of that was in the range of my savings. Tomek talked to the seller on the phone, we were going to meet him at 7 PM. We were about 20 minutes late, to late to buy the car.

There were three people standing next to the van as we arrived, we asked them if one of them was the guy Tomek spoke to. As we were told, they also wanted to look at the car. We waited for the owner for a few minutes and when he finally got there there were two people with him. They bought the car. The guy was kind enough to give us $30 for the fuel (we spend about $50 :( ).

Tomek said that he'd encourage me not to buy this car. In that case we'd have to go home for free, since he sold the car we got a part of the money we spent -- better this than nothing...

Yesterday I went with Tomek to Kielce (a city 180 km, 110 miles from Warsaw) to buy a VW T3. I phoned the guy who wanted to sell it at noon, we decided to meet there at 8 PM. At 7:45 PM he calls me and asks me if we left Warsaw already. "Yes, we're 32 km (20 miles) from Kielce at the moment", I replied. Why did he call me? Because he sold the car.

I don't know if I am trying to buy the car from idiots. This one is surely an idiot. He could tell me that someone is going to see the bus, I'd leave Warsaw later or stay at home if he sold it. Now I guess he needs to refund me the trip costs since diesel fuel in Warsaw is not free.