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My first 10-day tour to Poland


monkos 1 | 5  
27 Jan 2008 /  #1
My son & I are making our first trip in Sept. We are going on a 10 day tour. Does anyone have any opinions on an organized tour? I forgot most of my Polish over the years. Is that going to be a problem. What are the best things to bring back? Other than vodka. Amber, candy? Is there any where to get farmer cheese? The kind my grandmother used to make.
krysia 23 | 3,058  
27 Jan 2008 /  #2
Are you going to visit family there or is it just a tour? I heard they are OK.
Most stores sell farmers cheese (biały ser) in the nabiał section. What to bring back? Depends what you like. I like books so I always buy books in Poland when I'm there because they are cheap. Lots of nice souvenirs you can buy.
LondonChick 31 | 1,133  
27 Jan 2008 /  #3
Whereabouts are you going (i.e. cities)?

I don't speak Polish but have been fine in Warsaw, Krakow and Lublin.
OP monkos 1 | 5  
27 Jan 2008 /  #4
We're scheduled to go to Warsaw, Krackow, Zacopane & Czesthowa. I am so happy i can get some farmer cheese. I suppose this is something I can't bring back to AZ? I'm going to check out the amber while I'm there. Are there any places to buy art, prints not the expensive ones. I'd like some pictures of what the old Poland looked like. My grandmother came from places that had thatched roofs. My grandfather came from Stary Szor. Does anyone have any info on that? Sorry I'm rambling..............
Davey 13 | 388  
27 Jan 2008 /  #5
Czesthowa

Częstochowa?
Michal - | 1,865  
27 Jan 2008 /  #6
& Czesthowa. I

I know Częstochowa very well indeed although it is a few years since I was there last.
Surrey chick  
27 Jan 2008 /  #7
What are the best things to bring back?

You can get nice carved wooden boxes We have quite a few and add to our collection each time we go there. You will get them in Krakow. We like to buy books too.
spiritus 69 | 651  
28 Jan 2008 /  #8
I know Częstochowa very well indeed

Me too, I have close friends in Czestochowa and visit there once a year. Some people will say it's an ugly city but I really love this place.

Best time to visit is in the pilgrim season around 15th August.

Some decent shops and nice bars and restaurants.

Try yo visit Olsztyn castle about 30 mins drive away.
Davey 13 | 388  
28 Jan 2008 /  #9
Go to Oświęcim, it's quite close to Częstochowa
Michal - | 1,865  
29 Jan 2008 /  #10
ry yo visit Olsztyn castle about 30 mins drive away.

Yes, it is pretty there on a small hill. When we were there it was winter time and it was cold but in the summer it would be much nicer. When I used to visit Poland, we used to visit the summer fair held in the Polish town of Mstów, which is held d in June of each year, if I am not mistaken. I never go to Poland now so am not really up to date. Częstochowa itself is a dump with a steel works.
pieinthesky  
29 Jan 2008 /  #11
I never go to Poland now so am not really up to date. Częstochowa itself is a dump with a steel works.

If you never go to Poland now and it's been a long time since you were there, how do you know Częstochowa is still a dump ?

Everywhere changes over a period of time and you may give some people the wrong impression of area's in Poland (as it is now).
Michal - | 1,865  
29 Jan 2008 /  #12
Everywhere changes over a period of time and you may give some people the wrong impression of area's in Poland (as it is now).

Believe me, Poland can never change for the better. I know Poland very well indeed-same old steets, same two faced people and the same thieves and liars. Sorry, but I have seen it all in my time.
pieinthesky  
29 Jan 2008 /  #13
I have to disagree with you Michal. You seem to be living in the past, off old memories and you appear to not like Polish people at all.

I'm sorry that you are so bitter and twisted, it must make you a very unhappy man ! Hope things get better for you one day
Grzegorz_ 51 | 6,149  
29 Jan 2008 /  #14
Kmiot, It's the same s*hit again and again. All the Poles here got used to that you can't even **** them off, so what's the point ?
pieinthesky  
29 Jan 2008 /  #15
I think Gregorz that people like Michal deserve our pity. They do not appear to be able to cope with modern day life and make up stories off the past, in order, to try and impress complete strangers of their so called knowledge.

It is so very sad because they do not understand, that what they write is utter garbage. Best to humour and pity such people. They must have many problems in their private life that their only escape from reality is to come onto a forum and write such drivel over and over again.
Grzegorz_ 51 | 6,149  
29 Jan 2008 /  #16
Dude has been doing that since almost a year. Imagine how f. up he must be.
pieinthesky  
29 Jan 2008 /  #17
Yes ! And if he has been doing that for such a long time, then that just goes to show how sad he has become. To do that for over a year must mean he has a very, unhappy and stressful private life and no other interests to concentrate on. So he switches on his computer, heads off to Polish Forums and types in such bitter words and waits for the inevitable replies so that he has someone he can argue with. This way he gets rid of all his stress, then he can return to his real life and act all meek and mild again. As I said before , a man to be deeply pitied.
Michal - | 1,865  
30 Jan 2008 /  #18
ng that since almost a year. Imagine how f. up he must be.

It should be 'for almost a year' or 'since last year'. It is not grammatically correct to say 'since almost a year'.
jacek23maks - | 7  
30 Jan 2008 /  #19
Hello Michal,
I have to say, that you have no idea what you are talking about. I have been living here in US and in my native Poland within the last few years. Poland has changed - of course it still needs a lot of work, but you have no idea how it is over there. It is different every year, and I see more and more improvements - every time I go there.

Everywhere you can find unhappy, dishonest, complaining people. It is not only Poland. My city (Bielsko-Biala) within the last few years has changed to the point that I couldn't recognize it.
Michal - | 1,865  
30 Jan 2008 /  #20
It never seems to amaze me how the Poles so hated the English speaking World yet all these Poles living in the United states of America and Canada. In Moscow, I heard nothing but criticism about Churchill. You Poles want to be experts and know it all now. from Poland BUT living in the new capitalist West. Same old story-do as I say not as i do. End of story.
z_darius 14 | 3,965  
30 Jan 2008 /  #21
Things like happen all the time you know. Some people hate Poles and yet are married to one.
Michal - | 1,865  
30 Jan 2008 /  #22
Some people hate Poles and yet are married to one.

Nobody in their right mind could ever be that stupid, could they? That would not be a marriage but I life prison sentence.
z_darius 14 | 3,965  
30 Jan 2008 /  #23
Nobody in their right mind could ever be that stupid

Apparently you were :)
Buddy 7 | 167  
30 Jan 2008 /  #24
In Moscow, I heard nothing but criticism about Churchill.

er what Century are you living in?
JustysiaS 13 | 2,239  
30 Jan 2008 /  #25
in yet another of his idiotic statements, michal got so blinded by hatred towards the Polish that he called himself ever so stupid. brilliant.
Michal - | 1,865  
31 Jan 2008 /  #26
called himself ever so stupid.

I have to agree with you for once-there is really no excuse!
kszacki - | 3  
23 Feb 2008 /  #27
My grandmother came from places that had thatched roofs. My grandfather came from Stary Szor. Does anyone have any info on that?

Well, I know where Stary Szor is.
I grew up 3km from that village, in the same parish.

Stary Szor is ~30km NE of Bialystok city. It belongs to "Stara Rozedranka" parish.
bevy1953  
12 Mar 2008 /  #28
We are thinking of joining a tour heading to Poland in Sept also. I have no details, we heard of it though a client of my husbands. I was just wondering where you are from and what group you may be traveling with? This seems to be a good website to get some information some so I will check it again in a few days. Thank you! Hope you enjoy your trip. I would really love to go.
bajka - | 71  
12 Mar 2008 /  #29
You sound like an undertaker.......
biekrs-tours  
10 Jun 2009 /  #30
www,bikers-tours,com we organize tours.

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