Travel / Traffic jams Warsaw Monday morning? [6]


Thanks jon. Used that as an escape route on the return leg. Just back in Tri-City. Went on the S7 and across the Wisla by Modlin at 7 in the morning. It was a beautiful day too - haven't been in Warsaw for donkeys, and Jana Pawla, my point of call at the Hi Fi service, now has the Arcadia at its' top. I seem to remember something else in communist days:):) Just a Rondo with flowers I think.....

Oh - and I learnt quick. Drive like mad and aggressively and it seems you fit right in!

Travel / Traffic jams Warsaw Monday morning? [6]

The latter seems a better bet from Mlawa and the north.
Unless a Varszawian comes along with the answer from the horses' mouth I will take your bet.
Thanks Delph.

Law / UK Citizen - Getting Poland's temporary residence prior to Brexit [10]


In the style to which you had become accustomed, Atch? My parents always used to tease me with that.
What was that food that people grow on their kitchen window sill? The OP doesn't need to starve, does he?

Law / Preventive police phone call in Poland [9]

Just ignore them. Why bother? It's a Sunday - it's not as if they're there to actually help you or something (not any Polish authority, anyway - only to hinder you)

That's my sole experience in just 30 years living here anyway.

Love / Why am I so sad about the fact that Polish guys are so good [11]


Nice? Idiotic nationalist nonsense, set to appeal to who?

Love / Why am I so sad about the fact that Polish guys are so good [11]


Don't engage with the twerp Pawian. Unless you like reading Mills and Boon? Maybe - and I am suspicious because of the "wonderful Poland" nonsense - you are "Felicity?"

I claim my 5 zlotys.

Love / Why am I so sad about the fact that Polish guys are so good [11]

Well "Felicity" - there is a Nobel prize for literature awaiting you in the future. Are you always bored on a Sunday that you have to post the same old shite?

News / Former Polish MP caught driving without a license..... twice in one day! [17]

Childish comments all round. The facts are these. Until Poland is a fully accountable society, people will still get away with the most blatant of offences. This is a carbon copy of what happens in America, and we want none of it in Europe. In normal societies, to wit the UK, a politician can be sent to prison for asking her husband to say he was the driver in a speeding case. And anybody caught drink driving is bang to rights - well, unless they are Royalty of course:):)

This bloke is just some provincial - and deffo not royalty.

Law / Court punishment Poland - work for punishment instead of jail [36]


Absolutely. Now we can agree. I have zero interest in intellectual pursuits, outside of studying how on earth Hendrix moved, within the space of three years, from twanging a line nailed onto a broom handle in his father's living room, to forming a 3 piece combo at Army barracks in the 101st Airborne regiment.

Polonia / Poland vs Italy vs Spain for an expat? [19]


Yes, like Italian, quite pleasant to read. Italian is much easier for limey to speak. I was babbling away happily after 2 weeks in Naples:) But maybe it was the local wine...

And yes, the PM is a Socialist, but will always play the central government game, which is an extremely autocratic one, in the view of many. That's what is so annoying to many - whether it be London, Warsaw or Madrid. "Let's have 'strong' government - so I can wash my hands of all responsibility, and they can do the dirty work for me."

I am sorry that you can't see the Catalan point of view, but they are so comfortably off anyway, by British standards, that they would probably be bored if they didn't have something to fight for:)

News / Former Polish MP caught driving without a license..... twice in one day! [17]

That's a minimum six months away, in any European country. The people await the court case.

Polonia / Poland vs Italy vs Spain for an expat? [19]


Says you. It's really none of our business though, is it? You cannot apply the academic argument to every single case, though here the point would be applicable for you and me, non-players in this.. But, you have likely been there, and observed Catalans and Basques to be different, and the Spanish have run a ram through the problem since the 1930s. My daughters' fiances' family are Catalan, not Spanish, and never will be. Those are the facts - not some academic argument that you hold on to to solve every point. Do you always stick your nose in everywhere Maf? You must be fun at the proverbial party.


I square that circle, as you put it, ( and I do not subscribe to the theory of consistent policy across the board) because one is a right wing government forcing it's agenda on its people, and the other is a right wing government forcing its agenda on another people.

Law / Court punishment Poland - work for punishment instead of jail [36]

So who here doesn't speak the language of the place where they live? And what level do you need to be able to communicate at? You are suggesting that all people want to be able to take long turns, or pontificate at the bar about the state of the nation.

Me - I exchange pleasantries with the neighbours, complain about the state of the roads, apologise to the policeman for speeding, grovel at the town hall about the filling in of the form for a replacement driving licence, negotiate the work on my little house - but - when I am discussing the health of my lab - if the vet wants to talk to me in English, that is his prerogative, and I am very pleased to enter into that contract.

You sound like one of those skinheads who offer to smash the foreigners' face in for speaking in their mother tongue.

Polonia / Poland vs Italy vs Spain for an expat? [19]


Just awful. My daughter lives there. That's the only positive about the place. That and Catalonian pride in their rightful cause against the quite ridiculous Spanish government in Madrid. Polluted, full of tourists, disgusting, uneatable cuisine, unbearably stuffy and hot in summer, a haven for crime, a football team that always wins because it is a business, not a sporting club - hard to say anything good about the place (but she clearly likes it).

Oh, yes - Barcelona has what must be Europe's biggest second hand record store ( I did find something positive after all, and Warsaw leaps up the Dougpol likeability scale when comparing the two....)

Slupsk, on the end of the scale, isn't much nicer. If those pesky Russians hadn't destroyed it....

Law / Court punishment Poland - work for punishment instead of jail [36]


Really Ironside - when a great many Poles don't decline their language properly, you are expecting me to employ more than 3 or 4 cases? No chance.


It's just mafeketis on some "clever clogs" trip....

Law / Court punishment Poland - work for punishment instead of jail [36]


Why not generalise...?

Law / Court punishment Poland - work for punishment instead of jail [36]


What about Americans who "get involved in Poland etc etc..."
What a ridiculous statement.

Life / Is it OK in Poland to walk a dog in a graveyard? [11]

Nice story. My lab never gives me a backward glance, but happily marches off with various women neighbours who feed him when I am away.

Life / Is it OK in Poland to walk a dog in a graveyard? [11]


Signs here in Tri'City - obviously because the Shih Tzu brigade carry their mutts under their macs en masse.
Where is the pic from Pawian? Krakow?

Life / Is it OK in Poland to walk a dog in a graveyard? [11]

No. Have had to walk the dog through before now, in Katowice, because the cemetery cuts across a city centre thoroughfare (well - obviously, the cemetery was there first) but, really, it's a no-no.

Unless the dog is like Greyfriars Bobby, and one of the mourners:):)

USA, Canada / Free Tyskie beer at Kiełbasa Factory [28]


You can't be that interested Lyzko - as the answer was in my post above. Anyway Poland doesn't have a culture of ale - because you have to store barrels at 13/14 degrees C or it wont last for more than a week.

USA, Canada / Free Tyskie beer at Kiełbasa Factory [28]


Polish mass produced beer is chemical rubbish Lyzko. And "moczno" is the worst of the worst. It will eventually kill the addicted drinker.

USA, Canada / Free Tyskie beer at Kiełbasa Factory [28]


Pure sugar Lyzko. Student home made beer :):)

USA, Canada / Free Tyskie beer at Kiełbasa Factory [28]

Well...beer is a personal taste. I was being snooty - if peeps like Tyskie, that's cool too. Beer is so wonderful that paradoxically I now try not to drink during Rok Skolny, so I can enjoy it properly at my leisure in summer, watching the youth exert themselves on the beach:)

The odd Tyskie or Budwesier Budwar doesn't hurt, but are chemical in nature....Pilsner Urquel and other pilsners and pale ales are better, being lighter in alcholic content. A beer should only be strong in alcohol because it has a high volume (a high malted sugar content) Natural ingredients are the name of the game here - and ideally the beer should be non-pasteurised.

Of course ale and beer are two different things, ale being top fermentation and beer being a more wide ranging term for lagers,stouts..everything really...

And like your country kitchen, it's all in the ingredients and the care in the brewing process. Cook the selected malt(s) as a wort at 153 degrees Fahrenheit (optimum temperature for the brewing enzyme) add your hops, chuck the lot in a 20 litre plastic barrel, filled with water (must be water suited to brewing - Katowice water is from lakes and is NOT suited - Dabrowa G water is from aquifers and IS), lob in your (top fermentation) brewing yeast, slam on the lid - air tight!

If you use 2 kg pale malt for 20 litres water you get a specific gravity of about 1045, which is a meaty beer, slighty stronger than Pilsner Urquell. Not a pilsner of course - pilsner are very difficult to brew yourself - you need to bottom ferment (chance of sourness/acidity) and much longer storage times....

Store in a coolish dark place, 65 degrees F, and avoid looking at it for 10 days/2 weeks. Then bottle with half teaspoon of glucose per bottle plus finings gel.

Store for a further two weeks, then get stuck in. Miles better than this craft beer malarkey.

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USA, Canada / Free Tyskie beer at Kiełbasa Factory [28]


Not "beer". Anything that has a 9 hour "brewing" process from wort to bottling is not beer.
If you want to die young - carry on.

Travel / Royal palace from before Poland's partitions in the Tri-city area near the sea [7]

Sorry Ziemowit, we know..I live there ( well, obviously, not there..)
The fact remains that the latest exterior renovation is cheap and shoddy, because the proper funding is not in place. I will photograph the place to illustrate my point. Oh, and dogs are not allowed in the gardens, but drunken bums abound. It's a work in progress, but when government employees renovate their own property they do so properly.

This piecemeal renovation is a scandal.

Travel / Royal palace from before Poland's partitions in the Tri-city area near the sea [7]


Yes - it's a shame that Poland doesn't yet have a "National Trust" where historical buildings are saved for the nation through public membership. Maybe there are just too many such monuments, but this palace has gone through an extensive, yet shoddily done, renovation recently.

It's an important start!

Travel / Royal palace from before Poland's partitions in the Tri-city area near the sea [7]

Anyway - maybe the OP means Oliwa?
inyourpocket.com/gdansk/oliwa-park_31958v

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Travel / Royal palace from before Poland's partitions in the Tri-city area near the sea [7]


Near Ilawa? Kamieniec?

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