Travel / Warsaw seen from the river. Vistula song? [2]

Oh, I didn't know about this. I hope I can work it into a schedule.

Related:

a song about the vistula river.


did you try google? Wisla river

There words here, but may not be accurate. maybe a PL person can verify
amiright.com/parody/70s/boneym4.shtml

krakow.pl/weekend/piosenki_piosenki.php?p=plynie_wisla

He could think about "Płynie Wisła po polskiej krainie" :)

Travel / Warsaw Uprising Museum [7]

I have been there. It is a wonderful museum and at the same time almost a holy place.

Life / Kashubia, Kashebe and Kashubians. . . [23]

I live in Minnesota and this is a place where many Kashubians came. There is a book available entitled The Kashubian Community of Southeast Minnesota.

Food / POLISH CAMPFIRE FOOD [11]

What's in Birds Milk is not quite the same as marshmallows. The texture nor the flavor is the same.

Food / POLISH-STYLE FRUIT & VEGETABLE GARDENING [4]

Thank you for posting this. You have given me about 20 new words that aren't in the usual Polish-English dictionary.

Life / Polish movies - what they are like? [34]

I found another Polish DVD in the public library. It is VaBank. It is set is £ódz in 1934. This story could take place anywhere; it's not culturally specific. However it was such fun to see real Polish buildings -- litttle things like the flat stone that is often by the door, the way particularly public buildings are signed. I enjoyed it.

Travel / Do Poles speak English? [19]

Let's be more polite, please. Yes, many people in Poland speak English. I find when I'm polite even more people speak will speak English with me. I've been to Poland four times as a volunteer to help teach English to school children and will be going back the 5th time.

Travel / Torun, Poland - Good Restuarants [12]

Oh, certainly I plan that.

Food / Żubrówka + apple juice anyone? [41]

What about "Polish flags?" made with vodka and malinowy syrup, I think it was. Anyway, it's red.

Travel / Torun, Poland - Good Restuarants [12]

Thank you, it's on my list already. I'm looking forward to my visit. It will be the first time in months when I have nothing to do but have fun and enjoy what I want to do from minute to minute.

Food / POLISH CAMPFIRE FOOD [11]


Do you bring the materials from the U.S. or have you found the right things now in Poland? Thus far I've never found marshmallows or graham crackers.

Life / Polish movies - what they are like? [34]

I found another film with a Polish relationship. The name of it is Ladies in Lavender. It features Maggie Smith and Judy Dench as 60+year sisters living in the Cornwall area of England sometime between the two world wars. After a storm they find a young man washed up on their beach and find he's alive. They take him into their home to nurse him back to health. He doesn't speak English and they can't figure out where he's from. Well, I figured it out when he says Dziękuye (sorry if I spelled this wrong) and kisses their hand. It is a wonderful film.

Food / Help with baking ingrediants. [18]

Cream of tartar and tartar sauce are two quite different things. Cream of tartar is powder that interacts with other ingredients to act as a leavening agent. It comes from grapes from the remains of making wine.

Here is some information I found on the the what's cooking web site:

Cream of Tartar Substitution - The answer is, there is not a good substitution. If cream of tartar is used along with baking soda in a cake or cookie recipe, omit both and use baking powder instead. If it calls for baking soda and cream of tarter, I would just use baking powder.

To deal with the buttermilk question.

Put 1 teaspoon (5 ml) vinegar into a cup and then fill the cup with regular milk to the 1 cup or 250 ml mark. Adjust obviously for different quantities of milk. The acid from the buttermilk or the sour milk is needed to interact with the leavening agents. What is buttermilk -- the liquid left when one turns cream into butter.

Normally, when cream of tartar is used in a cookie, it is used together with baking soda. The two of them combined work like double-acting baking powder. When substituting for cream of tartar, you must also substitute for the baking soda. If your recipe calls for baking soda and cream of tarter, I would just use baking powder.

One teaspoon baking powder is equivalent to 1/4 teaspoon baking soda plus 5/8 teaspoon cream of tartar. If there is additional baking soda that does not fit into the equation, simply add it to the batter.

Travel / Warsaw Public Transit for Newbs [8]

Thank you for posting this. It will make me more independent with my summer travel.

Food / Russian pirogi ("pierogi ruskie") or Polish pierogi? [15]

In my humble opinion, there isn't a common definition. In Krakow I got some fried piergies with the name Russian pierogies. In a Russian restaurant here in my city, Russian pieorgies are yet different than anything I've ever eaten in either Poland or the Ukraine.

Travel / TAXI FARE BETWEEN WARSAW AIRPORT AND OLD TOWN ? [16]

One gets close but not exactly in the old town square. No traffic of any kind in the old town square, but foot traffic.

Life / Polish movies - what they are like? [34]

I recently viewed Mis, Teddy Bear. I can understand it's a great film, but as a person in the States, I had hard time following it. I belive the humor has to be viewed within the context of the culture and I simply don't have the cultural history of Polish person.

I tried Fire and Sword, too. Had a hard time with it. Well, I get lost in the books, too, and have to read some parts over and over.

However, I did get a good laugh from Fire and Sword. It opens with a person being attacked. He is rescued and what does he say to the man who rescues him -- Dzjiki. (Sorry if I spelled it wrong.) I think if someone saved my life the word Bardzo might be part of what I said.

Language / Did I Get It Right? Krzeslo, ksiazka, okulary [9]

Thank you.

Study / Polish University Exchange [6]

Look for Polytechnic in Warsaw.

But beware that Polish computer science may be at a different level. This summer I will be teaching English to high school students in high school that offers Cisco training. This level of computer science is very unusual in the states.

Travel / Krakow going down the toilet! [184]

I was in Krakow in 2002 and loved it. I was in Krakow again in 2006 and thought it too crowded. Then after I picked up one of Siekenwitz's books ( I know I spelled it wrong, sorry) that begins with visitors going to Krakow in the 1300s and they too are complaining that Krakow is getting too crowded and out of control!

Travel / Attractions in Kluszkowce [6]

I'd like to know more about how to take the cable care to Kasprowy Wierch. I hear this is hard to do with summer crowds.

Travel / Torun, Poland - Good Restuarants [12]

Merged: Good Restaurants Torun

I would enjoy receiving information about good restaurants in Torun. I'll be there for 3.5 days. Of course breakfast will be at my hotel.

I'm excited about going to Torun.

Travel / Traveling to Torun [19]

I made a hotel reservation for three nights in July. Actually that gives me two good days for I'll be arriving in the early evening of the first overnight, and then having to return to Warsaw on the third day.

Travel / Attractions in Kluszkowce [6]

Zakopane is very much better to visit than Nowy Targ. Just google Zakopane and you will get lots of information.

Food / Fine quality cheese shop in Warsaw? [12]

While I'm not an expert, I've never seen the sheep cheese very far from Zakopane.

Travel / Finally going to Poland. After 17 years. [9]

That this photo is taken in a mall in Warsaw is a sign of the changes in 17 years,I'm certain.

Food / National Beverages (napoje?) of Poland [12]

We have no Polish stores. We do have a significant Russian immigrant population so there are stores that feature Russian food, but alas the black current juice is not there.

Travel / Finally going to Poland. After 17 years. [9]

That many, many things will be changed! I'm not a native, but through visits from 2002 - 2007 I can see Poland changing. Maybe more specific questions will help others to answer.

Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]

If you are looking at Wisla in an English alphabet, then you are not seeing the £ letter is Wis£a. It is really prounounced Viswa. And now I can't see the word without memories too. Walking along the river is Kazimierz Dolny, the view from the top of library at Warsaw University, or going over it on one of the beautiful new bridges in Warsaw!