Greetings from Warsaw bus station, I mean, Warsaw airport.
We are beginning to think that Lithuania does not exist. We have tried to buy currency 3 times at two different airports today and have been roundly mocked at the currency exchange. I mean, it isn't like Lithuania is you know, a neighboring country to Poland or anything.
This morning (God, this morning seems like days ago) we attempted to purchase Lithuanian money in Cracow. We went up to the currency exchange and said, "Lithuania?"
The girl just blinked.
Then I pulled out my "Baltic States" book and showed her on the cover the word Lithuania and a picture. She blinked again, grabbed the book and started reading it leaving Cracola and I standing there with a fistful of zlotys and no book.
"Um, we need that back? Do you have Lithuanian money?"
The girl laughed, said no, passed the book back to us and told us to go away. I still am confused as to what happened there.
Now, in Warsaw, the CAPITAL of Poland which is the country NEXT to Lithuania and we have twice been denied currency. At the first exchange place the girl explained they had Estonian EEKs (yes, eeeeeeeek!) but no Lithuanian money. At the second exchange place the woman broke into hysterical laughter.
"Yeah, real funny," Cracola growled.
So we are penniless. But the upside is that when we go through customs in Lithuania (assuming the country exists and we get there) we will have absolutely nothing to declare.
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