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jonni   
5 Apr 2010
Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]

What des that have to do with crimes on tourists?

One word, likelihood.

Or is being beaten up in UK somehow a better experience than being beaten up in Poland?

At least the nurses aren't rude to the patients as the original poster mentioned, Derek. And the likelihood of getting attacked in PL is far higher. Unless you know otherwise.
jonni   
5 Apr 2010
Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]

Is the UK a developing country?

Oh dear Derek, it seems you've forgotten the relative levels of tourism between the UK and Poland, the millions of visitors to the UK far outnumbering those to Kraków. But living thousands of miles away from Poland, you may not be au fait with the situation anyway.

Because they know that FOREIGNERS WILL NOT PURSUE AD GO TO A POLISH COURT OF LAW, so there are no consequences into breaking the face and the bones of any foreigner, just for pure enjoyment

Many indeed do go to the police. If robbed or attacked, they can't claim on their travel insurance unless they do.
jonni   
5 Apr 2010
Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]

You should have used that argument in your response to the originator of this thread.

They, Derek, are tourists enjoying the tourist oriented nightlife that Kraków has to offer and advertises around the world.
jonni   
5 Apr 2010
Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]

the majority of visitors in cracow stay in cheap hostels, even people who arrived from New Zeland stay at hostel. ( the flight has to be expensive)

So how do the hundreds of expensive hotels stay open then?

Just knock them down and **** on them, that's what they deserve.

Are you willing for that quote to appear in a guide to Poland?
jonni   
5 Apr 2010
Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]

I don't think many care If they visit or not. Now tell us how your 50 EUR spend on beer in Karków is saving us from starvation.

Tell us how you'd keep the streets clean and the schools open without the taxes paid by tourist businesses.
jonni   
5 Apr 2010
Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]

And why the hell should they use English ?

Because Kraków advertises and promotes itself as a major tourist destination and a large part of the city's income derives from tourism. That's why visitors should expect some English spoken in a hospital emergency room.
jonni   
4 Apr 2010
USA, Canada / Polish cigarettes to the USA as a gift sent from Poland? [7]

Blond tobacco is more difficult generally to grow - dark tobacco is a much easier and higher yielding crop. Nevertheless there is more and more blond tobacco in Poland to reflect modern demand. The tobacco farms around Mazury (as far as I know) are now only growing blond tobacco, most of it genetically modified to suit the climate.
jonni   
4 Apr 2010
History / Battle of Arnhem 64th Aniversay - Polish Paratroopers [10]

We've had this so many times already that it's stale. Instead of posting the same thing why not use the search function.

The Poles were not 'prohibited' from attending any victory parade. In fact they were one of the very few foreign nationalities who were invited.

:-(
jonni   
3 Apr 2010
Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

That's how I do them too. I wish I knew how they cook them in my local bar - they are always shiny with fat but never stodgy or greasy.
jonni   
1 Apr 2010
History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]

MareGaea: Just a question: why can't you Poles accept things you've done wrong in the past WITHOUT saying: "yeah, but THEY..." ? It sounds so childish, you know

Marek11111: why Jews do not accept things they are doing wrong now

Evidently not.
jonni   
1 Apr 2010
Work / Are Educational Documents from 3rd World Immigrants Scrutinised? [7]

Amathyst: have been a considerable amount of cases in the UK whereby documents for both education

There was that 'doctor' in Bradford who was using a medical degree that had belonged to a dead man with the same name. He hadn't even finished high school. He was practising as an NHS GP for 30 years before he was finally grassed up by pharmacists who were worried about prescriptions for ointment to be taken internally and other weird prescriptions - one of them involved creosote. They toughened the rules quite a lot after that.
jonni   
1 Apr 2010
Law / Apostille stamp in Warsaw [26]

You probably need to just call at their reception with the document and check. They might (probably will) request a sworn translation (must be a sworn translator - Tłumacz Przysięgły - who will stamp the translation) and at worst, they will require you to show a Karta Pobytu.

If they won't give you an apostille, that's probably good news. It would mean that people don't require them.
jonni   
1 Apr 2010
Law / Apostille stamp in Warsaw [26]

No and yes.

It turns out the Saudi visa agents prefer dealing through the London Embassy to keep things simple, so I don't have to do anything in Poland now. The Warsaw Embassy doesn't deal with agents for some reason, so I just have to FedEx my stuff to London.

I was impressed by how much more efficient the office on ul. Dluga is than the old one on Andersa. A separate room for EU nationals, nice staff and no queues.

sunil_love80: What kind of trap was it?

I'm from UK, live in Poland and need a business visa for KSA. I haven't bothered with a Karta Pobytu since Poland joined the EU - it hasn't been a problem, but if I'd wanted to arrange the visa in Poland, with letters from the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Foreign Ministry I would have needed to get a KP quickly. This shouldn't be a problem, but would have taken a bit of fussing around and maybe delayed things (I'm going 1st May).

But as it happens the company I'm doing the consultancy for prefer to do it through London anyway.
jonni   
1 Apr 2010
Law / Apostille stamp in Warsaw [26]

If the documents relate to visas for a third country, you will have to get a Karta Pobytu first. I was nearly caught in that trap last week.
jonni   
1 Apr 2010
Law / Apostille stamp in Warsaw [26]

An apostille just means they've seen it and stamped it. You need a sworn translator (who will stamp their translation) and the relevant ministry will give you the stamp on payment of a small fee.

If it's a university diploma from another country that you need veryfying (for example an English Bachelor's equates to a Polish Master's, but it is often useful to have a document proving this) a notary should be able to help.
jonni   
1 Apr 2010
Food / Herb used in Polish rosol (chicken soup)? [88]

I'm Polish and I've never heard of putting parsley on potatoes

Dill is more usual, but I've seen parsley used plenty of times here in Poland, perhaps it depends on the region. Parsley on potatoes is traditional in parts of England too.
jonni   
1 Apr 2010
Food / Eating Kielbasa - how do you cook yours? [119]

Good Kielbasa MUST have garlic in it. And it cant be greasy.

There are varieties with and without garlic. As for greasy, I sometimes get it from a farmer near Siemiatycze who makes his own. That is always a bit too greasy, but somehow excellent. Better than shop bought.
jonni   
1 Apr 2010
News / Sikorski or Komorowski for president? [32]

but he has had guts to say to the gays to GTFO with their parade

More idiocy.

The year he said "GTFO" the parade happened as normal, which showed him up to be the pompous blustering old booby that the world now knows he is.

Hypocrisy really, since his identical twin brother Jarosław is a confirmed bachelor considered by many to be gay.