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Joined: 1 Jun 2008 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 20 Jun 2015
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sobieski   
9 Oct 2014
Food / Clotted cream - where I can buy it in Wroclaw? [9]

You can't buy milk in Poland.

You can if you live close to a mlekomat. mlekomaty.org/mlekomat/2.191.lista-mlekomatow
Besides the fresh milk sold in the shops is not UHT, only stays good for two weeks or so.
sobieski   
4 Oct 2014
Classifieds / D&D Group for Expats in Warsaw needs one more player... [69]

Or grousing about the quaint, everyday intrusions into our lives by Poland's foreignness with the rest of Europe as evidenced in its people

You talk as a true expat....Are you somehow connected to real everyday life here in Poland? The way you write about life here...could be very similar to a district supervisor in the British empire analyzing the not-so-civilized natives in letters home. Peculiar, but then in the expat crowd not that surprising.
sobieski   
3 Oct 2014
Classifieds / D&D Group for Expats in Warsaw needs one more player... [69]

The shared fantasy of the game we use to meet people is not based on the real world because it is more enjoyable and places us more at a distance from our daily concerns of living and working in a foreign country. It puts us all on the same level.

Translated into everyday language: Having a real life is something you don't know anything about.
sobieski   
2 Oct 2014
Travel / Warsaw airport to Bus Station Wilanowska stand number 14 [22]

Jon, I am using that website quite a lot, and really don't find any fault with it...I think it is user-friendly, though often I doublecheck with the ZTM one as well.

Although I just now found a serious mistake on their site for bus 156 (which I use a lot from Metro Młociny)...For weekdays they use the old schedule, for other days the new one. Big mistake, because if there are only two buses per hour, you have to wait a long time for the next one.

Maybe they are not so reliable as I thought....
sobieski   
28 Sep 2014
Classifieds / Warsaw (PL) Tabletop Role Playing Game Group for Expats Only. D&D Fortnightly [87]

not on being labeled a geek or a nerd but whether or not someone is geek or nerd enough

Speaking of being a nerd...you really make the top league...Don't you really have a life out of this artificial one? Btw Can I register our family labrador? She is very much into role playing.
sobieski   
19 Aug 2014
Travel / Baggage size limit on Trains in Poland? [16]

I know that more space taking items like for example bicycles fetch extra ticket.

Bicycles can be taken without extra cost - just as luggage. Same goes for Warsaw public transport, where a few years ago you still had to buy an extra ticket for them.
sobieski   
14 Aug 2014
Travel / Getting from Wrocław airport to Książ Castle, near Wałbrzych [6]

I would say roughly an hour. Once you left the industrial estates around Wrocław behind you - plenty roundabouts - it is an easy and pretty scenic road.

Zamek Książ is pretty well signposted - it is on the right side after you have passed Świebodzice. It is on a dual carriageway going into Wałbrzych.

Expect traffic jams because of ongoing road works into town .
sobieski   
28 Jul 2014
Love / Age difference in relationship with a guy or girl from Poland? [28]

I think 4-5 years difference is OK. My parents differ 4 years, she older as he. But at an age of 81 and 85 I do not think it makes a difference...

For spring chickens such as us...For example 18 and 25...really big difference mentality-wise. 52 and 57...not really. 10 years...we are talking of a different generation IMHO. I differ with my youngest brother 11 years and it shows.
sobieski   
24 Jul 2014
Law / Apply Karta Pobytu (Residence Card) for my wife [7]

Yes. There's a paper confirming that a person can entirely apply and receive resident card

What do you in this case with the personal interview - I suppose they still do exist (they did in my time)?
sobieski   
24 Jul 2014
Life / How and where do I return empty alcohol bottles in Poland? [17]

Yea, that's what i do...more or less, just leave them and tin cans in a plastic bag for them to collect.

Actually I do disagree on this one, it is only promoting vagabondism.
And all too often I see (or foremostly smell) the said gentlemen on Warsaw public transport, a plague for all other passengers.
It is a mystery to me how a bar of soap can be too expensive, and a carton of pseudo wine cheap enough?
Same as I do not give money to the gentlemen offering to "keep an eye on your car".
sobieski   
23 Jul 2014
History / Restoration of Poland's Monarchy? [40]

and could veto any move the king made that seemed corrupt

You are talking about the liberum veto here, which was the summum of anarchism. All schlachta were in the pay of their respective magnates and voted as instructed by them. And the magnates were in the pay of foreign powers.
sobieski   
22 Jul 2014
History / Restoration of Poland's Monarchy? [40]

The tradition of our monarchy has been abruptly stopped and in the period that followed Poland did not exist at all

Polish kings got their crown from the highest bidder, the foreign power which managed to buy the majority of the magnates and szlachta. Which royal tradition?
sobieski   
22 Jul 2014
Life / What type of gift should i buy for my hosts in Poland? [22]

And Ptasie Mleko are the same. Plus they're cheap and.nasty, synthetic and not actually very nice.

Actually my parents back home in Belgium like them. As a rule i don't take chocolate back home, that would be the same as taking ice to Greenland :).

But I indulge in their taste :)
sobieski   
22 Jul 2014
Law / What documents do I need to register a car in my name in Poland? [18]

It also is not a "maldunek" but "meldunek".
If you have a Pesel, you should have a meldunek as well - as fas as I know they are interconnected.
And as the last poster wrote... I never heard of a meldunek being a handwritten piece of paper. Absurd.
sobieski   
2 Jul 2014
Classifieds / English cuisine week in Lidl shops in Poland [203]

t would be great to have Hatherwood (an AF brand especially for Lidl) or something like it on tap, but unfortunately the only option here usually is to pay quite a lot per kilo in one of the main supermarkets for Kerrygold or Cathedral City.

I am a bit surprised by that one. One of our daughters came back from our local Lidl one hour ago, and reported stacks of Hatherwood cheddar - in the regular "everyday" shelf.

Also a pallet of peanut butter/cheese (whatever you call it - I cannot stand it) right before the check-out. Nobody seems to buy it. Price is back (for the cheese) to 10,99, still decent for 400 g I should say.

But lucky for me they also keep on selling Belgian cheese :)
sobieski   
1 Jul 2014
Food / Polish wine produced in the Zielona Góra region [41]

Thanks, I will check them out :)

In connection with this, there is an interesting article in GW today about this subject:

For vineyards to start selling their collections, there is a need for three seasons. Poles are still learning how to make good wine and learning takes time.

For now, on the Polish market of wine there are dozens of manufacturers. However, there is also a trend to grow more wine production in Poland, as confirmed by Agricultural Market Agency. However, as notes Iwona Ciechan , spokeswoman for ARR , it is not known how many bottles of wine produced in Poland goes on sale . Why ? Because for the time being Polish wine grapes is a niche product available in caterin , online stores and some stores of wine only.