Law / Polish Visas...hard to get? [3]

Paul in Prague:

I have lived in several European countries. While I dont live in Warsaw, foreign police are difficult EVERYWHERE. Good to hear your experience in Prague! I will make sure to avoid living there.

Gene in Vilnius

Travel / Driving Directions in Poland [6]

I looked into several map services some months ago. The best was google maps. I wanted to go through warsaw to lithuania and some services had me going through Russia, others had me going through Belarus. Only Google maps offered me the "correct" driving directions.

Travel / How is the road from Berlin to Warsaw then to Mazury ? [6]

I did a similar drive in April. I drove from Zurich to Vilnius. I went almost to Berlin and then headed east to Warsaw and then North to Vilnius. What a trip!! The first part was easy the second part was a nightmare.

The first part (Berlin-Warsaw): There are two ways to go Berlin to Warsaw, one way is a toll road (you have to pay for it) and the other part is country road. Take the toll road. There are 4 toll payments along the way. But it was a very good and easy drive and the 4 toll payments were not very high (around 12 zloty each if I remember right). I highly recommend to take this road!

The second part (Warsaw-North): This was the difficult part of the drive. Much of it was under construction. The roads were in terrible shape and worst of all, we did it at night! I strongly recommend that when you do this part of the trip, you time it correctly so that you drive it during the early morning so that it light, but that you miss the traffic through Warsaw. I went Warsaw to Bialystock to Augustow through Suwalki. Also, at nighttime, there were VERY few petrol stations open during that stretch so make sure you stop when you can.