Travel / LOT Polish Airlines - Baggage Change / Liquid Restrictions! [5]

The rules on LOT are the same as on any airlines. Of you want to bring liquids in your hand baggage they have to be in tiny bottles. Personally I always put any liquids in checked luggage to avoid complication. Foodstuffs are best in checked luggage too, but don't need to be.

UK, Ireland / Do Poles and EU Citizens exploit the British welfare state [129]

Hmm. A lobbying group. Good that you value the opinions and point of view of a liberal pressure group rather than some random conservative source.

UK, Ireland / Do Poles and EU Citizens exploit the British welfare state [129]

Does anyone do that? I thought that for unemployment benefit people had to go and sign in person. Plus all the various interviews. Hard to do that from Krakow, even on Ryanair.

UK, Ireland / Do Poles and EU Citizens exploit the British welfare state [129]

That doesn't reflect reality - you can't trust official statistics here and access to (and quality of) education is something cited as very positive by migrants to the UK.

In PL, school textbooks have to be bought by the parents.

There's also genuinely free healthcare and a social safety net that makes the UK attractive to people from other regions in the union.

UK, Ireland / Do Poles and EU Citizens exploit the British welfare state [129]


This is partly because of the poor condition of the welfare state in PL as well as support for families and the poor schooling. The UK is a relatively easy place to live.

Travel / Poland is unsafe for visiting British Citizens ! - so I've been told ... [18]

szenk88uk:The only time that I have ever seen a Pole look at a British person with disdain is when you have a group of gobby British guys on a stag do in Krakow or somewhere similar. In that instance I shared the look of disdain!

Quite a few times, I've seen and heard some fairly inhospitable comments made to visitors wearing unconventional clothes or with dark skin. Also to Brits who aren't tourists, visitors or guests in the country, but live there.

Personally, living for many years in Warsaw, I've never seen anything unacceptable from either stag parties from abroad or Warsaw locals - just people enjoying themselves but I've seen plenty of unsavoury behaviour from out of towners from the villages.

UK, Ireland / Polish passport - Can I apply from the UK? [51]

Yes. You shouldn't have any problem.

News / Poland one step closer to visa waiver by US Senate [59]

From sea to shining sea. It's always been a place where people go to make a new life :-)

News / Poland one step closer to visa waiver by US Senate [59]


A few decades maybe. I suppose they have to balance turning down a high risk young person who wants a holiday or allowing in a high risk young person who will become an illegal immigrant.


Many, and as I said earlier in the thread, I'm affected by this myself. Thousands of people round the world want to enter countries they don't have access to.

But can you think of another way they should do it? Perhaps not, since:

News / Poland one step closer to visa waiver by US Senate [59]


Doubtless


It's included. They removed Argentina for this reason:


law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1187

Though a low visa refusal is a the main criteria for a stable country to join, they do still have a maximum visa overstay rate.

News / Poland one step closer to visa waiver by US Senate [59]


You'd prefer that they're stricter and don't issue visas to people from Poland? They're very strict with people from some countries.



Nobody's twisting your arm. Evidently many could care less though since there's a petition and congressional lobbying to add Poland to the scheme.

News / Poland one step closer to visa waiver by US Senate [59]


I suspect you misread the sentence and in fact we're saying the same thing. What data do you imagine they would use bar the details of people who overstay? They know who doesn't leave the country on time and they know what those people put in their visa applications - certainly enough to make a reliable profile of overstayers.


They manage their visa and immigration policies with a lot of careful thought. They certainly don't just pull regulations out of their asses to indulge the inferiority complexes of people from countries excluded from the waiver programme.

News / Poland one step closer to visa waiver by US Senate [59]


It's probably based on hard data about the people who do overstay.

History / Poles slaughtered during World War 2 by partisans in Koniuchy [10]


Food.


A friend was there at the time. Not while it was happening but so soon after that the bodies were still there. It affected him so much that he still gets very emotional about what he saw even now in his tenth decade.

It's easy to talk about these things with the luxury of distance but sad to make a trolling post about 'commies' when the incidents took place during the worst period of history in which to live and in one of the worst places. Sadly it was a time of massacres - Baba Yar, Jedwabne, the Death Camps built in Poland etc. The perpetrators were usually not 'commies' and the nationality of the villagers is an irrelevance now - any of us can behave inhumanly to others regardless of who we are.

News / Poland one step closer to visa waiver by US Senate [59]


There are no "illegals from Poland" in the UK - both countries are part of the EU and citizens of either country have a right to live in either or both.


That's one of the criteria that hasn't yet been met.


That's a shame. I'm in a similar situation myself. It's the people who overstay because they want to work that spoil things for genuine visitors. Perhaps it would be possible to fix a visa?

News / Poland one step closer to visa waiver by US Senate [59]

The criteria for the visa waiver are straightforward - plenty of countries in Europe manage to meet them without needing an exception.

History / Poles slaughtered during World War 2 by partisans in Koniuchy [10]


Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't.

Travel / Traveling from Warsaw to Podkowa Lesna, Czluchow [4]

This should help you:
rozklad-pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/en

A few possibilities, however not a short journey to Czluchow.

History / Is Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Tepes seen as a hero in Poland? [25]


Certainly plenty of blood spilled there during the C20.

Though the origin of vampire legends (nothing to do with Vlad the Impaler) seems blindingly obvious.

History / Is Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Tepes seen as a hero in Poland? [25]

Three good people there, two chosen by fair elections and served their terms of office, the other very highly respected and all three very good at standing up to the very worst sort of Balkan leader.

Mass killings in that part of the world have sadly continued long after Vlad the Impaler's day. Now fortunately it's a lot sooner before people hear about such crimes; the international community can respond more quickly and effectively and forensic pathology means that the mass graves of the victims tell their story too.

Real Estate / Rental market in Warsaw, are prices increasing or decreasing? (2 room apartment) [10]

A month's rent, most of them. And there's always a deposit.

It's usually better to deal direct with the owner if you can. I can recommend Gumtree though - best to check it regularly as the best (or most unusual, like a 4 bedroom flat) tend to go quickly.

Watch out though for people who advertise 4 bedrooms but in fact mean 3 bedrooms and a bed in the living room - unless that's what you want.

Real Estate / Rental market in Warsaw, are prices increasing or decreasing? (2 room apartment) [10]

Gumtree Warszawa is your best bet. Don't forget to check the box to say that you're looking for ads placed by the owner rather than by agents (although some agents pretend).

5 room flats are rare though - 4 room ones are more common.


That's anywhere near the metro really.

History / Is Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Tepes seen as a hero in Poland? [25]


They can certainly complain about it. Plus the thousands who got impaled on that monster's orders.

Life / Driving Offences in Poland - How Fast can you go without being arrested? ;) [56]

He was lucky - normally the police fine people but I haven't unfortunately heard of anyone being jailed for dangerous driving.

Poland has among the highest number of road deaths per 1000 in Europe which is sad.

History / Is Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Tepes seen as a hero in Poland? [25]


The Venetians certainly didn't either, if the story that he nailed their Ambassador's hat to his head is true.

Travel / Will I have any 'Issues' visiting Poland (Bialystok, Lublin, Biala Podlaska & Warsaw)? [9]


Bialystok's fine. Just take the normal precautions that you'd take in any town anywhere like not visiting chavvy nightclubs etc.

Law / Information on which documents are needed to obtain a visa for a visit to Poland (non EU citizen ) [18]

There isn't a consulate in Bangladesh - the New Delhi consulate deals with visas for Bangladesh residents: newdelhi.msz.gov.pl/pl/

You'll need to make an appointment here: secure.e-konsulat.gov.pl/

A letter of invitation usually contains an address, the duration of the stay and a promise that you will look after the person financially during their visit however you should check this with the consulate.

Law / Information on which documents are needed to obtain a visa for a visit to Poland (non EU citizen ) [18]

Of where are they citizens?

History / Is Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Tepes seen as a hero in Poland? [25]

A lot of Vlachs settled in Poland centuries ago.

History / Is Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Tepes seen as a hero in Poland? [25]


Neither. He isn't a big figure in PL. There's a local baddie, the Devil of £ańcut, however even he is hardly an everyday topic of conversation.