I'm an Australian who has been working and living in Poland for about a year. If you need any info, just ask. I have probably found out as many things as the next guy the hard way. This is a good way to learn!
Places to visit .. depends what you are after. Warsaw is chaotic but has everything. Krakow is for tourists but a must see ... too many English bucks parties for my taste. Some great bars/resturants in both though. I prefer to smaller towns where the Polish way of life (and beer gardens) is stronger.
Don't go there!!! It's lame and dodgy. Though food is really good... It put me off when i went there first time, but I still go for grocery every now and then as I miss Polish food teribly-) Cheers-Gregory
Excellent ? I give it about two and half stars - its not excellent at all . I rather eat anywhere else even Korean place on liverpool road is heaps better than there . Everything about that place is less than ordinary. Fitout , no windows in that place, food is less than ordinary. I appeal to Polish ppl who run the place to put their act togehter charge more and be more professional.
Where do young polish people under 30yrs old go out to (congregate) in terms of bars, clubs, ? DO you have any Polish community events/societies etc like for example Polish club in ashfield every Sat night for disco or the like?
I ask because i have friends from warsaw & find Polish people very likeable, easygoing and would like to meet Australian - Polish people with whom to meet & share experiences as well as some bigos or zubrowka vodka !!
hey guys! anybody interested in going out for bear/ drink/ glass of wine? lets meet and start integrating together!! my mail is marcin.sulima@gmail any suggestions?
I dont recommend the polish club in Ashfield, it is very back in time, nothing from modern Poland, I heard that there is a nice modern polish place/restaurant somewhere in Glebe, but I dont have the exact address
Hello fellow Polish Sydney siders!! I'm trying to find my family history, I'm a bit wary of the many online researchers.. can anyone recommend someone in Sydney??
I was born in europe. Grew up in Aust. Have very little knowlege of field mushrooms. Went mushrooming when very little. Unsure which ones to pick as parents diseased. Would love to join your Polish forest mushroom hunt. Blind folded ok, as long as I can join in just once. If poss. contact Christa on gcjamieson@wideband.net.au Thankyou.
Australia received a significant number of Polish immigrants after WWII, with a large number of them settling in Melbourne and Adelaide. Sadly, not many of them passed the Polish language and culture onto their children. Most Polish-Australians today are second or third generation and don't speak Polish.
Sadly, not many of them passed the Polish language and culture onto their children. Most Polish-Australians today are second or third generation and don't speak Polish.
it was hard for them...my parents only spoke polish to me and that is all i knew up til i was 4 years old. then when i went out to play with aussie kids they had no idea what i was saying. from then on in they dropped the polish.
It's fairly interesting how Aussies and at times Brits tend to say how awesome Australia and Aussie people are yet they are looking for friends...(read women) in a small almost non-existant now polish community. If Aussies are so 'friendly' and easy going then find your friends there and not in people that you know little about and care little about.
I've lived in OZ for many years but find that real Australians (excluding 1st or second generation children of migrants) are two faced and not true friends - unless there is a benefit for them... the irony is they themselves come from a european somewhere down the line but they treat europeans as second class citizens ... same goes for the Brits who use polish people as a cheap alternative for plumbers, electricians, nurses etc... Sorry but just my two cents worth...
If you want to really party Aussies and Brits and not stand around an old stinkin pub at the Rocks with 50 mates in toe singing 'the last plane out of Sydney is almost gone' then hop on a plane and go to Czech, Poland or Ukrane plenty of action there for you.
If you want to really party Aussies and Brits and not stand around an old stinkin pub at the Rocks with 50 mates in toe singing 'the last plane out of Sydney is almost gone' then hop on a plane and go to Czech, Poland or Ukrane plenty of action there for you.
are two faced and not true friends - unless there is a benefit for them... the irony is they themselves come from a european somewhere down the line but they treat europeans as second class citizens ..
I'm not surprised at all by your post, unfortunate that People are like this and lack common decency, but hey, this is a reflection of australia, if you say this is true, I must believe you and become cynical and say good luck this is the international community!
Oh please Patrycja... you think I wasn't offended by ''Renegade's'' outlook on Australia...?
The tricky thing is I didn't know which group of Aussies to identify myself with... :S Which is what made the premise of his argument meaningless in *my* view... I could be both!
I guess it's up to the individual to believe one-sided comments or not or to listen to anonymous and baseless views without any verification or understanding of the individual's postings...
Point proven. Thanks.
I personally thought his comments were Kaka.
Fact is, like many countries, here you live amongst others from many different backgrounds AND nationalities... it's hard for some people...
As a general rule, nice people associate with nice people, not so nice people associate with not so nice people. We largely meet and see people who are a reflection of ourselves. So if you think others suck, look in the mirror and think about yourself.
Just got back from looking in the mirror. I feel much better now.
Is being Polish mainly due to nature or nurture? Will Polish people in Australia be converted by the Australian nurturing into Australians over some years? (No lobotomy jokes please.)
And will any Australians in Poland become more Polish over time for the same reason, or do we retain our inate nationality despite our environment?
Would love to join your Polish forest mushroom hunt.
I just went to Oberon, in NSW and found a lot of Saffron Milkcaps (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffron_milkcap) in the pine plantation areas. I didn't go in a Polish group but I saw a couple of groups of 30+ people who could have been Polish at rest stops. I also heard that a Polish group rents a bus to go to Oberon. You can get to decent picking places by car but a 4WD will get you to places that haven't been stripped bare by other mushroom hunters. I'm not sure when the season starts but heard that it ends in April.
Oberon is also a popular place for fossicking for gold and, more often, sapphires.
(Speaking of snow, we went to Oberon 3 years ago and saw snow all day on December 6th - that's SUMMER here; a gift from the AnioĊek? *grin* It was a rainy day, too, and even at 4pm there was enough snow for a snowball fight and a snowman! No snow on April 10th but it was 10-13C all day... and rainy, again.)
The mushrooms are easy to identify. I was told not to pick the red ones with white spots or any of the brown ones. There are two orange topped mushrooms there. One has an orange set of gills underneath. The other has white gills. I was instructed to ONLY pick the one with orange gills. The stem is even orange so if I saw white I left it.
We came home with two boxes of mushrooms, maybe 5 kilos - we're taking more boxes next time! Don't freak out but the mushrooms stain green and look moldy when handled and look scary by the next day. They're fine. I dried 3/4 of our treasure in a dehydrator and filled two 400g Moccona coffee jars. We ate our fill for dinner with friends, just fried in butter. The rest I'm experimenting with as the mother of a Polish friend told us to remove the stems to make them more like steaks, parboil the mushrooms for 2-3 minutes, let cool and then freeze individually. You can thaw as many as you want for dinner, crumb them (the regular egg and bread crumbs combo) and fry them. Can't wait!
