Law / Are there photography law's in poland? [5]


:D

You can take a photo (without asking for permission) of
-well known person celebrity, politician etc when he or she is in the work or on duty.
-person as detail of gathering, event, landscape etc

-if you have paid him or her for photo

You can take a photo of any person but only for private use without permission to publicize photo. Person always has the right to ask you to stop photographing and you must stop. So when you are going to publicize photo you have to ask.

Translation? It wasn't me ;)

Law / Are there photography law's in poland? [5]


URL pl.rec.foto => faq

Life / Polish Residency - Zameldowanie to be abolished? [49]


zameldowanie or meldunek

They promised abolition from 01.01.2009r but still in Sejm.

Travel / I am free - Hello Poland. Need advice about travelling in Poland. [16]


;)

Olsztyn is rather small city but finding a non-payable parking space near the city centre between 9oo and 16oo is MIB.

Look for guarded payable parking places or underground parking places near shopping malls. One hour costs 2zł.

Travel / I am free - Hello Poland. Need advice about travelling in Poland. [16]


Hello


Yes but it doesn't happen rapidly and occur only at dawn. You can notice -15C in the evening already.


Snowplow isn't necessary but winter tyres would be a good choice ;)

A little advice for you. Don't stop suddenly before pedestrian crossings unless you want to visit a body shop. In fact pedestrians have "right of way" but when in Rome, do like Romans do ;) If battery is dead in the morning feel free to call a cab. Borrowing electricity is very common and cost about 20zł. Make sure you have -30C antifreeze coolant.

Life / Experiences Installing a Wireless Home Network in Poland [12]


Linksys should work fine. I have stable signal in 30 meters round my house, even when I'm sitting in my car (laptop below windscreen line)

URL: komputronik routery - współdzielenie Neostrady

Life / Satellite type connections in flat in Poland [18]


Gdańsk, PAL, D/K

TVP1 - VHF, channel 10
TVP2 - UHF, channel 37
TVP3 - UHF, channel 52
TV4 - UHF, channel 22, low power transmitter
TVN - UHF, channel 59, low power transmitter
Polsat - UHF, channel 30, low power transmitter

Life / Satellite type connections in flat in Poland [18]


This is an old tv standard socket. Central distributed, amplified air TV signal installation called zbiorcza or AZART. Now abandoned.


This is new one, called kablówka. End point of the another, independent installation. Often physically disconnected in basement concentrator until you pay abonament for cable tv provider.


Don't deliver supply to this socket. There isn't any possibility to receive satellite signal to feed polsat decoder. You need the dish. Just connect this socket directly to TV and run UHF band tunning. Band should be densely covered by tv programs.

Language / TAK, ABY [4]


You're right


It doesn't mean the same.

Life / Does Poland Television work on the PAL system like the UK? [4]


This is the same tv system PAL but different sound carrier (UK - I, Poland D/K). Multistandard tv are common in Poland but in bad scenario you may hear no sound.

When you use cinch RCA Xbox <--> tv set cable everything will be ok.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL

Language / Verb patterns 'BYC' [29]


- regular activity, each day you are going to work, by what, by bus/car/tram
Jeżdzę do pracy autobusem.
Jeżdzę do pracy samochodem.
Jeżdzę do pracy tramwajem.

- activity at the moment
Jadę do pracy.
Jade do lekarza.
Jadę do sklepu.


- regular activity
Chodzę do szkoły.
Chodzę do pracy.
Chodzę na angielski.
Chodzę na karate.

- activity at the moment
Idę do pracy.
Idę do lekarza.
Idę do sklepu.

- activity in the future, intention
Jutro pojdę do lekarza.
Jutro pójdę do banku.
Jutro pójdę do fryzjera.
We czwartek pójdę na ryby.

Travel / Anyone know about a village called Bobrownik in Warmia? [9]


no, just military training ground.


no, It was in use more than 25 years ago.

Travel / wloszczowa station [4]


Most famous train station in Włoszczowa. Its construction was lobbied by former deputy prime minister Przemysław Gosiewski who wanted express trains to stop in this small town which happened also to be his home town.

The only passenger train stop on the high-speed line

Travel / Anyone know about a village called Bobrownik in Warmia? [9]


Hmm. What can I add. As you can see from satelite or hybrid view, there are only few houses in the village. It is rather a farm town (whatever it means ;) and the neighbourhood is quite drab (raw, abandoned military area)

You can take a coach (PKS operator) or minibus (e.g. TRANSWAL) in Olsztyn, both near the bus station and near hotel KORMORAN then you have hire a cab in Lidzbark Warminski. You have buses to Lidzbark Warminski each hour as this route is very busy. Expect they may be very crowded. Look around for boards behind the windscreen. You need "Lidzbark Warm" or "Bartoszyce", bus stop nr 1. Beware of "Lidzbark" because it is in opposite direction, to the South. Get off from the bus on Lidzbark Warminski rail/bus station. There is a taxi stop. One way bus ticket Olsztyn -> Lidzbark cost about 10zl. You can buy ticket in the bus. Cab from Lidzbark Warminski to Bobrownik should cost about 20zl.

Travel / Anyone know about a village called Bobrownik in Warmia? [9]


It's about 50km from Olsztyn to Lidzbark Warminski and then about 6km from Lidzbark Warminski to Bobrownik. I remember this village because there is great view from the hills to Lidzbark Warminski.

Life / Auto energy cost in Poland . [6]


e-petrol.pl/index.php/uslugi/notowania/sredniecenypaliw.html - notowania - srednie ceny paliw w Polsce

Life / Unblocking someone in Gadu Gadu [4]

Kontakty --> Lista zablokowanych -->
Select gg number then click
Usun --> Zamknij

UK, Ireland / home in Poland or UK? [3]


hello


yup. I don't have family yet but I'm missing food, my beautiful house, my LHD car, forests, lakes etc


No. In the UK I would have to pay for the same house zillion pounds.


don't go back


Yes. Me. I'm going back to UK.


Stay where you are unless you have prospects for really good job in Poland.


all the best

Life / Life in Pre and Post Communist Poland [12]


Plenty of parking places but no cars. Now we have a huge amount of cars but no parking places ;) Traffic jams. Stresful speed cameras. No joy driving a car. Despite that die communism nightmare die ;) Never come back.

Food / Top food products you'd want to see in a Polish shop [32]

rolls ;)

Tymbark juice - tymbark.com.pl
kielbasa zywiecka - morliny.pl
kielbasa mysliwska
ham - jbb.pl
bigos, golabki - pudliszki.pl
pickles - klimex.biz
edam cheese - msm-monki.pl
ketrzynski mayonnaise - majonezy-ketrzyn.pl
milk zambrowskie - mlekpol.com.pl
yoghurt bakoma - bakoma.pl
pyzy - aviko.pl

Life / Level of English among the Poles? [64]


So I must have Norwegian origins ;) I'm living in UK at the moment and after first shock I think that my English is very bad. Want to feel safe, my answer is always "a bit". I just produce proper sounds but I still have problem with fully understanding adult speakers. Kids speak louder and clearly whole words. Adults only beginning of the words. I suppose people expect that I can understand their in the same level as my speaking ability :/

Language / Polish Language Pronunciation - Example Words and Phrases [220]

Because "do zobaczenia" is rather reserved for couples, girlfiends. Man to other man say "Widzimy się jutro"

Language / Polish Language Pronunciation - Example Words and Phrases [220]

Guys, be aware that men very rarely use "do zobaczenia" each other. It sounds a bit funny when guy say do zobaczenia to other guy. Except situation when place of the meeting is mentioned after do zobaczenia i.e. "Do zobaczenia w Londynie"