This is what happened to me and my friend a month ago. I am a student of history in Jagiellonian University and my friend is studing psychology at the same university. My friend's name is Leon. He is from Lublin and he has got his own car. I am writing this because it has got crucial meaning to the whole story.

So, a month ago my friend Leon was asked by his aunt to buy her a medicine in Cracow and bring it to Lublin. It was very important to her because she had to take it but she couldn't get it anywhere. Of course, Leon said that he will help her. At first we both were looking for this medicine. We have visited about one hundred chemist's but finally we managed to buy it. We were ready to go as soon as we bought the medicine. I need to write that Leon's car was not a usual car. It was a vehicle out of the ark and we have never gone farther than 50 km from our house in case we were able to be towed back. But actually nothing that bad ever happened to us. Only once we had to push it for 3 km to the nearest petrol station and it was because Leon forgot to fuel. We were pretty sure that everything will be all right this time.

We took the medicine and set off early in the morning. We fueled the car, checked if we had all documents, everything was just perfect. But in about hour from Cracow we got a puncture. One thing that we didn't have was a spare wheel. At first we were cursing but later we started to wonder what should we do. After about an hour we had decided to leave the car on the shoulder of the road and to hitch - hike. When we left the car and were about 100 m from it, we had turned around to catch a car and than we saw a big jeep which was going very fast. At first we were laughing and we wanted to catch it but when we saw that he was going to hit our car we started to run. He crushed into our vehicle in full speed and we thanked God that we were not sitting inside.

Fortunately we managed to come back home, without the car but safe and sound. Leon sent the medicine by post and his aunt had it delivered the next day. From that time our only means of transport are bikes.

I love journeys J.