News / UK to send tanks to Poland. [36]


Boris Johnson's father is the writer Stanley Johnson, born in 1940 in Cornwall, which is in England.
So, no, daddy isn't American.

News / Winnie the Pooh gets bum rap in Polish town [12]


just do an image search for 'fired winnie the pooh'
I forgot that have a sense of humour isn't allowed on this forum.

News / Winnie the Pooh gets bum rap in Polish town [12]

Proof that Winnie isn't a hermaphrodite

Travel / Cool Hipster Areas in Warsaw ? [11]


hahaha, yea, isn't it funny how some people think the term hipster is a complement. It most certainly isn't.

In reality hipsters are just emo kids after they've completed puberty.

Life / Myslovitz- are there any other Polish bands that sing the same genre and are as good? [9]

Artur Rojek is the singer from Myslovitz released a really good solo album during the year

The album is on spotify:
open.spotify.com/artist/2wmdMX0w131ZumU30P5WZH

Life / Quiet Hours and Hot Water Supply [12]


+1, yea leave.

That no hot water after 10pm is nonsense and your neighbour sounds like a gowl.

UK, Ireland / Living in England - the reality. I am now returning to Poland. [30]


Zuzanna, I think you need to look here, it'll help: dictionary.reference.com/browse/paragraph?s=t

Work / Is it worth for a 27 yo game artist to move from Moscow to Katowice? [14]

I live in Katowice and with that wage you'll live like a King.
Kato ain't Paris though, but on the bright side, Krakow is only 45mins away by car and Wroclaw aint far. Sure, even Berlin isn't really all that far either.

I can tell you though, wait until Spring to move. Polish cities are incredibly boring places to live in during the winter months. Very few events, even very few people venture out over the weekends.

But it all bursts back into life in the Spring and the summer here is great. Kato has 2 really fantastic music festivals during the summer and loads of cultural events too.

Travel / Social Culture - Confused - good place in Warsaw to make new friends [19]

There are tons of foreigners living in Poland, the 'ex-pats in Warsaw' FB group has 2000+ members, so add to that the many without a FB account or online presence and I reckon the numbers of foreigners is quite big. OK, nowhere near as big as Western cities, but there's still loads around.

Life / Is 10500 monthly is enough for a family to live in Warsaw Poland [136]


You'll survive, but you won't save much money and you probably won't enjoy it......unless you don't have to pay rent, if you need to rent then you're basically screwed on that money.

Travel / Social Culture - Confused - good place in Warsaw to make new friends [19]

Join a few Warsaw groups on Facebook for expats/immigrants/language exchange, that'll get the ball rolling at least.

UK, Ireland / Polish hooligans attack London music festival [10]

I think I read an update on that somewhere, they came back a week later and god their heads smashed in by the bobbies.
I'll try and dig out the link.

UK, Ireland / Are there too many East Europeans, Poles in West Europe now? [47]

Poland isn't in East Europe anyway


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland

UK, Ireland / Are there too many East Europeans, Poles in West Europe now? [47]

Let me guess, The Daily Fail.

Mods, please close this thread, just another guest account coming here to troll.

Travel / Warsaw guide - how to go about hiring a secretary or assistant? We speak no Polish, only English or Spanish [7]


try a translation company so, best of luck

Study / English primary schools for foreigners in Katowice [15]


the address is on the contact page, which is the norm for websites in Poland.

Love / Any suggestions for wedding venues in South of Poland [28]


Sorry, I've been to Krakow a lot but wouldn't be familiar with the hotels there.
I do know though that the more upmarket hotels in Szczyrk are highly recommended. Have a look at tripadvisor. A few of them have a pool as well.

Although your guests will be so drunk on vodka I think swimming won't be a good idea ;)


Yea, I think it changing so you can have a civil ceremony anywhere? I'm not sure about it though, I got hitched in a church.


Personally no, waste of money as far as I'm concerned. My missus is Polish though and I speak a bit too. Now you're faced with the problem of your parents planning/organising things. I wouldn't have wanted my parents of my in-laws involved at all.

However, the places in Szczyrk provide the drink/cakes/decoration as part of their price. I'd bring one of the parents with me in March, or else bring a Polish cousin or someone who can translate for you.

Competition for weddings is really high there so they give great deals. Where I got married everything had to be gotten individually. But that was in the lower 'mountains' in the south-east and it was far more expensive when compared to where my friends had their party in Szczyrk.

Love / Any suggestions for wedding venues in South of Poland [28]


Szczyrk

Gorgeous mountain village south west of Krakow. It's a bit of a drive from the airport...well, it's 90mins-ish. But it's really lovely, have a look at it on google maps.

Magic place and all the hotels do good deals on weddings because it's a popular place to get hitched.

Ustron is also very nice.

If you're looking for somewhere bitter then Bielsko-Biala or Zywiec would suit.

But personally, I'd go for Szczyrk, your foreign guests coming to Poland will love it. And make sure and get a band that does a mountain show....traditional clothes/music, mighty fun :)

Law / Cost of importing a car from Germany to Poland? [9]


The import tax depends on the car's fuel type and its age.

I bought a German reg car in Poland and I think I only had to pay around 500zl for the Polish plates and registration.
Then again, if you're spending €1100 on a car then the import tax won't be much, so let's say you spend 1000€ on the car and leave the 100 for the registration/plates and you should be fine

Law / Asbestos Roofing laws in Poland - tell me! [18]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the danger with asbestos is the installation and the destruction. You can live under an asbestos roof and have no ill effect....so long as you never, ever have to repair it.

Also the fact that it takes eons to disintegrate.

Law / Bank Account in Euros - Is it possible to negotiate exchange rates to zloty with a Polish bank? [24]

Why can't you just negotiate with different banks to get a better price?
Anytime I've tried that I've been fine and have gotten a better rate that the original offer.

Travel / Warsaw guide - how to go about hiring a secretary or assistant? We speak no Polish, only English or Spanish [7]

English free guide here: inyourpocket.com/poland/warsaw

If you want to hire a personal guide then google is your best friend

google.pl/search?q=personal+guide+warsaw

For more official stuff, try contacting a translation company in Warsaw, they aren't cheap though but then again you're coming with Euros so most things will be cheap for you I guess

Food / Clotted cream - where I can buy it in Wroclaw? [9]


UHT...there's no demand for that, coz it's shi!e

youtube.com/watch?v=pBwwcU2c3u4

good old Fr. Ted.

Food / Clotted cream - where I can buy it in Wroclaw? [9]


Method 2 takes 3 hours and then 8 of refrigeration.
Slow cookers use very little energy and your fridge is constantly using power anyway.

Lesson to be learned, read the full link entry (^_^)

Life / Watching a movie in cinema (Łodź), without Polish dubbing? [9]

You might be too late, Guardian of the Galaxy came out a good while ago, it's possibly gone from cinemas already.

I checked £ódź Manufaktura here: cinema-city.pl/en/

And it's only showing once and in 3D (with dubbing) which should in itself always be avoided IMO.

I think you're too late, sorry.

Food / Clotted cream - where I can buy it in Wroclaw? [9]

Never seen it for sale anywhere outside the UK, very easy to make though: wikihow/Make-Clotted-Cream

Life / Why there's no STREET FOOD culture in Poland? [8]


Yea, that's true in every town/city centre.

Food / Fluoride in the water - is there a chart in Poland? [11]

There's no flouride added to Polish water.
As Pam's link shows.

However, some naturally occurs.
This natural flouride though is a different thing to the toxic waste added in other countries.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8885430

Up to 1989, water fluridation was policy, but was abandoned. Flouridation rinsing still occurs in Polish schools...according to this PDF, I would presume that's just an annually/bi-annually rinsing of the teeth by students, i.e. not swallowing the crap.

google.pl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEgQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sso.ch%2Fdoc%2Fdoc_download.cfm%3Fuuid%3D9553209DD9D9424C4C98A160B35CD8DE%26%26IRACER_AUTOLINK%26%26&ei=YR0tVLi4MsHeaozRgKAH&usg=AFQjCNGjkqpwI3Z h47gBNoqIDNnVjEm17A&sig2=8sQAT0X08kuVYLQzwZ57Aw&bvm=bv.76477589,d.d2s

Life / How many GSM networks really exist in PL? Virgin, Lyca, Play, Era, TMobile, Nju, what else? [7]


fair enuff
didn't know that

Life / How many GSM networks really exist in PL? Virgin, Lyca, Play, Era, TMobile, Nju, what else? [7]


Orange also & Plus GSM

Virgin aren't here though, never heard of Nju. Does Lyca really count though, that's mostly for international calls. Which I don't really understand why people would use when they can use skype/google hangouts etc.

Era is now Tmobile

Thing is, those smaller ones like Heyah and Play actually piggie back on larger networks. Heyah have no masts/signal receivers/reflectors of their own, they just buy large lumps of airtime from Tmobile (I think)

Play have an infrastructure, but they will use others's towers when necessary.
Play are the cheapest, but their reception outside of towns and cities is truly awful.

Heyah are the spawn of Satan IMO, constant spam text messages and calls. They recycle their numbers quickly too, I think if a number hasn't been topped up in 6 months, they disconnect it and resell it. I was getting phone calls for about 6 months from banks looking for the former owner of the number, until I changed to a pay monthly phone.