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Joined: 24 Nov 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 22 Feb 2015
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Posts: Total: 108 / In This Archive: 70 		From: Poland, Gdansk (Liverpool)
Speaks Polish?: so so
Interests: Music - singing, playing, recording. Football - Liverpool Football Club

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croggers   
2 Dec 2011
Work / How is the living standard in Poznan? Does 5200 PLN enough for a decent living? [32]

i wouldn't be so sure of that.

Why? You do the math. A native speaker can on average earn 50zl ( this is an average based on personal experience. In some cases 40zl in others 60 + ) per teaching hour. Times that by a 30-40 hour week. I personally would not take a job for less than 40 zl p/h unless hours were guaranteed, then I'd except 35 zl p/h.

Just saying............
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

I think you'll find you're wrong AGAIN. I never once gave an example of ANY restaurants. I gave 2 examples, 1 of a cake/meat shop and one of local corner shops. Anything else you wanna have corrected?
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

Whats there to be positive about ??? Where does ignorance come into it?
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

and you think we have standards for that??

Clearly not
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

Are you claiming they should be washed or dry cleaned or something

Funny. No, I'm claiming that something that should normally be kept in a fridge not be sitting under a hot lamp for hours................Jeez I thought this was a no brainer????
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

This is EU food hygene standards, didn't you know???

I highly doubt that. as johnny said

The worst think is putting uncovered food on or next to the counter in shops, just at the right height for bronchial old people to cough over.

I've never seen this in UK. Just sitting there in front of people coughing/sneezing on the food.
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

Nobody's asking YOU to do anything. I was asking the question on food hygiene standards in Poland not whether you would write a letter of complaint for me. Thought that was quite clear, maybe not......
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

Don't get me wrong I love my new home here in Poland but I feel that in some places food hygiene could be a bit/lot better. I'm not talking about restaurants, but in some shops/cake shops. I could give many examples but I'll only give a couple. There is cake/meat shop in Galeria Baltycka in Gdansk which sells really good sandwiches with great fillings, only problem is you have to be lucky to not be given the ones which sit right under the hot lamp making the cheese and ham sweat/change colour. Probably just being a bit picky on this one, in smaller corner shop types, dried out meats in the fridge and dairy cakes left out of fridge all day. Maybe this doesn't bother people and maybe it's because I'm fussy but just wanted to ask the question.

P.S I'm not having a go, I love the cakes here especially from Sowa (They are refrigerated mind) and cold meats in Poland are second to none.

Dzięks
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Life / Cellphone plan with Data, with contract in Poland [16]

I've come on here to actually give you a reply to your question, which is quite rare on this forum...............
I have an orange pay and go sim with the option called "internet free". You can get just over 1gig of internet when you top up 25zl (more if you top up more less if less etc) This should be more than enough unless you plan on downloading stuff, but just for searching the net,emails,skype, facebook etc it will be fine and of course you'll have the 25zl for calls or texts.

Hope this helped
croggers   
27 Nov 2011
Work / Teaching English in Krakow for graduates? [7]

You must spend an awful lot of time running around town teaching

Not as much as you'd think mate. I divide my time between them all, so on certain days in one place and on other days in others etc........

Saying that though, I have been here for 5 years and it was quite different at the beginning, even travelling outside the city for work. I guess it's easier as time goes by as you have more of a luxury of picking and choosing what you want to do and where you want to travel.........

I wonder how it is in Krakow? It's a bigger city than Gdansk so more travelling...............
croggers   
26 Nov 2011
Work / Teaching English in Krakow for graduates? [7]

Hi Buddy, I'm from Liverpool working in Gdansk and I've got to say it feels like quite the opposite up here, I mean, I'm currently working for 5 schools and I'm still turning down a lot of work............... If you play an instrument you can find work in nursery's too. I've got quite a few hours playing children's songs to the kids ( writing quite a few originals too,, )... You can get around 100 zl p/h for something like that as there are very few people doing it, especially natives and especially natives from Beatle pool lol, and if you've got a Beatle do like me haha.
croggers   
24 Nov 2011
Food / Are there any real kebab shops in Gdansk? [20]

scoooottttiiieeeeee its Craig There is a Turkish restaurant along the motława, sakaryarestaurant.pl it sells lamb and many other traditional Turkish dishes:)
croggers   
24 Nov 2011
Work / Finding a Job in a Game Development Studio around Krakow [3]

Levantine

Hi, try this mate, they may have an office in Krakow but not sure

CD Projekt Localisation Centre Sp. z o.o.
ul. Jagiellońska 74 - Budynek E
03-301 Warsaw, POLAND

tel. +48 664.455.212 or 213
fax. +48 225.196.949
e-mail: guillaume.rambourg@cdprojekt.com