LIMOUSINE FOR FREEEADING 15
WARS WELCOMES W/YOU
This slogan is a metaphor for the unchanging, irreformable Polish drunken communism. In the Polish People’s Republic, this was the text used to greet people in the WARS dining car on a train that was always late. In Warsa, long-lasting bigos, a traditional Polish mishmash with cabbage that easily stimulates and accelerates gas, and Breton beans, which also accelerate gas, were heated using gas in traditional pots. A lot of gas. Tough stringy pork chops served with disgusting mashed potatoes, always with the day before yesterday’s salad. It was very expensive in such a carriage, but you could always buy alcohol. It seemed that this was the only way to avoid physical and mental indigestion. I don’t know anyone who remembers that food, didn’t have bloating or was just happy with it. Wars food wars.
I left Poland on Corpus Christi Day. There was such excitement at the gas station just before the border that people did not respect the queue to the cash register. As well as the salespeople themselves. Just like the rabble in an imaginary war, leave this place as quickly as possible. Impunity, rudeness, Polishitness. That’s one of the reasons why I always wanted to leave here for always but always stayed / went back. Because it looks as if it is still, unchangeably, impossible to reform, as if no one still consents to this change. A stubborn critical field behind the barn, behind which you throw away everything that gets in your way, but you still have to go through it later. Some short-sighted absurdity, which is deepened by the voracious capitalism instilled in the media. This Poland looks as if everyone accepted the old/new communist/capitalist law, as if they had permission to cheat, and only humor governs it. The only difference is that there was nothing in the communism, but people helped each other more. What damned SHIT. The boundaries have become blurred and intelligent people call this status quo, sometimes communism, sometimes unfinished capitalism, probably based on their own unpleasant memories. What can I say… Excellent.
A JOURey IS like a journey, if you don’t stop you will see similar pictures along the way. Slovakia is poor and monotonous. People dressed like they came from a communist second-hand store. Farms worse than in Poland. Hungary the same, Budapest is a mess, my camper was parked on Rakoczi Street for 10 minutes, I had to dig around for something, then a drunk came up and told me I couldn’t stand here in the middle. It’s shabby and grey, dull and gloomy all around. And this is the main street. These postcard, representative objects are probably glossy grease. But for the EU to take care of this post-communism somehow, no possibile. Food market in Siofok, prices 4 times higher than in Poland. At Lake Balaton, the police caught someone sleeping on a bench and a key cutter tried to rip me off. Weaky weaky.. The drive through Croatia is similar. The mountains are nice everywhere, you know. But how many of them can be seen from the forced highway? RIJEKA is also damaged. It didn’t look like the “Super Developed West”. Nohow. Already 35 years after the overthrow of communism, and post-communist countries somehow still remind us of it. The Germans didn’t particularly care about the DDR either, BTW
RIJEKA
TRIEST
The landscape began to change as with the entry of Italy. Cleaner, more tourists, like in the first city TRIESTE. Even close to the city center there is a free parking lot for campers, but it is surrounded by huge empty buildings near the sea. A girl who played the violin beautifully, no one listened. When I finished exploring the city and passed one church, I heard singing. When I got there, a group of several people were rehearsing “All you need is love”. I was listening and the dog was looking at me. Strange.
And slowly the endless vineyards began to appear. Small towns, plantations of various sizes, enoteques, restaurants and tastings, etc. Like those in LISON. I slept there at the back of one gas station, waiting for the gas pump to open, because not everywhere in the evening you can serve yourself from such a pump. And so far, so to speak, the most original stationary decor. Gas in Italy is the cheapest of all I filled abroad, in a rather expensive country.




































