Travel / Do trains in Poland arrive on time? [38]

For a true Polish train experience I would recommend Warsaw to £ódż, alternately Pruszków-Warsaw, Grodzisk Mazowiecki-Warsaw. No Pendolino experience there,only true daily commuter horror.

Life / What should a foreigner do when invited to join Christmas dinner with his Polish-friend's family? [21]


Exactly. By far the better option. I travel with them regularly and cannot complain about them. Plus they have free wifi. Sure this is not a must, but handy :)


Also true. We will eat salmon.

Life / What should a foreigner do when invited to join Christmas dinner with his Polish-friend's family? [21]

We will eat salmon - cannot stand karp.


I thinkk you are talking about Polskibus here...I think they are quite comfortable. But it is true what other posters mentioned - madness to take any train without reservation on the 24th.

Anyway, I think Christmas Eve is one of the most endearing days in Poland.

News / Self-important Warsaw mayor [18]

Seems almost 60% of Varsovians yesterday thought differently. They could also have voted for a PIS clown who doesn't even live in Warsaw (and publicly told he didn't see the sense in doing so), doesn't pay taxes here but on my expense wanted to make public transport gratis.

Love / How many Polish girls are married to foreigners? / How many Polish boys to foreign girls? [104]


This was the case with all the Polish girls populating specialized Belgian/Dutch marriage agencies after 1989 and well into the 90's. Girls with an education but wanting to escape economic misery in Poland almost at any cost, even when this meant marrying a loser or a country bumpkin 20 years older. I think that is now the same with girls from the Ukraine. The other way around it was often Belgians or Dutch who couldn't get a partner at home, and went that direction.

News / First Remembrance Ceremony at Lidzbark Warminski [17]

Well, we put each year at the 1st of November chrysanthemums and a candle on the monument for the First Polish Armored Division - Maczek's boys - on Plac Inwalidów here in Warsaw. Their dust-ridden Sherman tanks liberated my Flemish village in September 1944, so for me this is emotionally very important.

News / First Remembrance Ceremony at Lidzbark Warminski [17]

In Malbork there is also one.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]


It seems as if Lidl is avoiding you, because in my local one they keep on replenishing the empty shelves....

Life / What do you like about Poland? [100]


Wroc...do you speak Polish at all? I remember you mentioning about needing an English-speaking person in your local Lidl?

Life / What do you like about Poland? [100]


I for sure prefer Opole and Dolny Śląsk - a much more down-to-earth approach with the urge to get things done. But for sure no Polonia old-country romanticism. The few times we venture across the Wisła I sometimes think it is another country.

Life / Canadian Moving to Poznan, Poland - what to bring over, areas to avoid, school for a child. [54]

I would aim for BPO companies, who always are recruiting multilingual staff (and where Polish is not necessary)

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]


To my experience, next week's action always starts on Sunday - almost everytime I see the staff filling the shelves on Sunday afternoon. As for absolute madness nothing equals to the day when they sold Wittchen handbags some time ago :). Never knew women could be so rude to each other :)

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]


Well my local Lidl is 100 metres from the metro terminus in Młociny and is very popular and they don't run out of the stuff (still had it today)

For next week Lidl will (according to their weekly promotions gazette) offer Cheddar (the 3 kinds) even at a reduced price - 6,66 instead of 8,99 PLN.

Study / Learning Polish in Warsaw - good school recommendation? [47]

In the olden days I used to go to IKO, which was not bad, but it depends a lot on your teacher.

Travel / Cool Hipster Areas in Warsaw ? [11]


I will check it out for sure, am passing Plac Zamkowy quite often.


What are designer dogs? Ours is a common labrador (well not common because it is the family dog - so has to be special :) )

Travel / Cool Hipster Areas in Warsaw ? [11]


Never heard of that one, maybe it could be explained that the family Labrador takes up a lot of time :)
Anyway, I always prefered Nowe Miasto. It somehow feels a bit less Legoland than its cousin.

Life / Least doctors per capita in Poland? [4]


That is for sure. From my home to Metro Młociny, a 2 km stretch, there are 4 chemists. I don't know how they all manage to survive.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Saw today in my local Lidl here in Warsaw-Bielany Stilton - not that I would buy the stuff - and various kinds of Cheddar...;

Travel / Christmas Fair in Gdańsk - worth visiting? [6]

There is a Christmas Fair in Warsaw but last year it was nothing special. It was moved from the Old Town Square (ideal location) to the central railway station. arguably the ugliest location possible. It also was much smaller as the years before.

The Christmas Fair this year will be held at the Barbakan, under the Old City walls. A much better location I should say.

Work / What is the scope of computer programing in Poland (job related) [15]


Not on IS that's for sure. It was built on Poitiers 732, Lepanto 1571, Vienna 1683.

Work / What is the scope of computer programing in Poland (job related) [15]


Yes I do have a fundamental problem that people like you come to Poland, a country of which you only know it might be a gateway to Europe. You start to question about safety and racism here and about extremists. Your country is built on extremists. P.S. Why don't you go study in Saudi-Arabia? Plenty of universities there.

Life / What are your experiences of care for your loved ones in hospitals here? [75]


We all know your political tendencies, no need to elaborate on them.
For the rest I am using Medicover, their hospital here in Warsaw is excellent. The only time when I am using NFZ is when I buy medicines.

Work / What is the scope of computer programing in Poland (job related) [15]


Coming from a country where some car bomb explodes about every few days, this is rich.
Why don't you go to the UK? Plenty of muslims there and they speak English.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Lidl will have again - besides Valley Spire which is now always on stock - two other kinds of Cheddar: Scottish matured coloured and one called "vintage cheddar".

This for their Deluxe week starting from next Monday. Although in my local Lidl they always seem to start this kind of stuff already on Sunday

Life / Pre-Marriage Classes in Poland (Warsaw). Church? [7]


This used to be a Korean-organized church as I know

Life / Pre-Marriage Classes in Poland (Warsaw). Church? [7]

They moved to another church now, on ul. Solidarnośći: warsawcatholics.pl
The priest is a decent chap - I often go there.
This is a fully-fledged parish.

Love / Too late for a serious relationship? or not - I'm 39 and looking for someone Polish [27]


Which says everything about your mentality.

UK, Ireland / Holding a British passport. Married a Polish woman. Applying for Polish passport? [21]

And why would that be the case? Are there some privileges connected to a British passport which or example my Belgian citizenship does not have?