Law / British in travel. Many trips to Poland within a year - do I need to register? [9]

No need to register even if you stay beyond the 90 days

Law / Do I need a boat licence for a lake in Poland? [9]



Don't let the police catch you. They do hand out tickets to people drinking while on the lake on a boat, blow up mattress etc.

Life / Important: A Good Medical Center with English speaking doctors in Krakow [50]

Medicover provide English speaking doctors. I do not know what kind of insurance you referred to, but if you are not covered with Medicover (through your employer for example) you would have to pay them but it will not be too much.

You may want to look into getting cover with them permanently as they will ask you if you require an English speaking doctor when you call to make an appointment.

I am covered with them too and quite happy about their service. If they will not have a doctor available today themselves, they will find one for you with one of their partners.

medicover.pl/en/default.aspx

News / PKP buys Alstrom Pendolino trains for € 665 million [60]


I may be mistaken but the CKM only makes up a stretch of about 300 kilometers of track, no?

I find that a tiny bit too little to justify investment in foreign trains if a local company is capable of delivering trains that would be sufficient for the majority of the current network. Specially when thinking about that progress on upgrading the existing tracks or building new tracks is going rather slow.

Thanks for the link to the Fyra story. No, I was not aware. Interesting though that Belgium did not deem them safe to travel on Belgian railtracks yet they are ok for Italian standards? Did I understand that correctly?

Travel / Polish postage stamp - how much does a single international stamp cost? [9]


It is a pity that you obviously did not open the link jon has posted. The clue is even in the link's address "zagraniczny" .......

News / PKP buys Alstrom Pendolino trains for € 665 million [60]

Good point @ teargas, but from what I understand the Pendolino also only travels at 160 km/h. Poland does not have the infrastructure for high speed trains yet so it seems a bit pointless to buy trains that could in theory travel at 250 km/h but are restricted to 160 km/h.

With regards to the infrastructure it will take at least another 10 years for Poland to have a track network that would justify the purchase of high speed trains. When I first walked over a bridge at the construction site of the tracks leading from the "new" station in Lodz - Lodz Fabryczna, literally nothing has changed. 1 1/2/ years later, when I walk over that bridge today and look down, it looks the same. You see trucks going in and out of the site but nothing ever changes.

By the time Poland will have a proper infrastructure for high speed trains, the new Pendolino trains will be outdated. This time could have been spend working with PESA to develop a train that could potentially reach 250 km/h or faster in normal service.

News / PKP buys Alstrom Pendolino trains for € 665 million [60]


Specially now that PESA, an actual Polish company, has successfully tested their "ED161 Dart" train with speeds of up to 200 km/h . PKP ordered 20 of those and the first trains will go into service in December.

lodzpost.com/polishnews/better-pendolino-polish-train-reached-speed-200-km-h/

So far PESA has been known in Poland for it's "PESA Swing trams" which run in most larger Polish cities.

One has to wonder whether or not PKP knew about the PESA plans at the time of signing the contract with Alstom. Surely, a high speed train is not something you just start building. It takes of years of planning too.

Feedback / Any chance of a sports category on PF [29]


Ok. Thanks for considering my request.

Feedback / Any chance of a sports category on PF [29]

And the rest? Polish league?

Feedback / Any chance of a sports category on PF [29]


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True. It is the wrong forum to discuss that game.


You are missing the point. I am not going to write about how I spend my time in a lazy chair trolling online forums (as you spend your holidays), I am going to write about how i travelled to the games, what I have seen on the way, how much I paid for my train tickets etc. etc. etc.

All things that you would never experience, do or see.


Of course, your holidays in Kentucky or your football game Jamaica vs. Brazil have nothing to do with Poland. My experience of travelling to all Ekstraklasa stadia to watch a game there will however be related to Poland.

Feedback / Any chance of a sports category on PF [29]

You may want to point out where I have been insulting you.

The fact that I do not consider Baseball or American Football as a sport insults you?

Like I said, commenting on something you clearly know nothing about.

Why don't you leave talking sports to the men while you continue to believe that the Baseball World Champions are actually "World" Champions?

Feedback / Any chance of a sports category on PF [29]


I don't think that's your job. I have asked a specific question to which I did not get a specific answer.

Your inability to comprehend European football and it's supporters and your need to constantly comment on something your clearly know nothing about is not my problem.

@ Admin, at the beginning of the new football season I am going to embark on a "doing the lot" journey. I try to complete the Ekstraklasa grounds in 3 months ( having watched a game at all Stadia ) and would like to share my experience here after each weekend (travel, things I have seen, impressions of the game etc. ) but I don't like to call a football game an "Event".

Would it be too much hassle to create a sports section?

Feedback / Any chance of a sports category on PF [29]

Seeing that you will never witness a football game in Europe, you hardly the right person to answer.

I understand that in the U.S. you look at things like American Football, Baseball and all your other ridiculous "sports" as events. But here in Europe, for real supporters, it is a bit more than that.

Something you would never understand though seeing that the only sport you like is trolling online forums.

Life / Looking for my old car in Poland (is it registered?) [16]


Nobody in Germany says or said that because it does not make any sense in German.


- Maybe you could contact the person you have sold the car to in Germany to see if they have the contact details of the person they sold the car on to?

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]

Berlitz in Lodz are always looking for "teachers". That said, you may want to wait until July or August before applying. The season is about the finish.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]

And here was me thinking that Slavs were germanized, according to your earlier statements.

Now you are saying that Germans are actually of Slavic origin. So are you saying that Slavic people germanized themselves?

News / Presidential elections and debates 2015 Poland [472]


So why do you comment on something you know nothing about?

News / Presidential elections and debates 2015 Poland [472]


:) :) Since when do expats have a say about how Poles should vote and live?

What expats did was to perhaps assist in build up the economy in Poland. You became a part of EU and experienced economic growth due to the fact that multinationals came to Poland. With that expats came and those expats told you how they would like their company to be run in Poland. If you don't like those expats to be in your country, don't expect any EU sponsoring and just go back to living like you did before 2004.

Don't like it? Tough........

Study / German v.s. Russian, language usefulness in Poland? [54]


Of course I assume wrong Wulkan. While most Poles would probably agree that they would understand at least the context of a Russian conversation, there is always a few who have to make a big deal out of it and claim that they don't understand anything.

Ok, you have the stage. Dance on it!

Study / German v.s. Russian, language usefulness in Poland? [54]


The word for car in Russian is avtomobil not maszyna. Maszyna is more like a slang word everyone uses to refer to a car but the correct word would be avtomobil.


I disagree, while the Polish language is not as close to Russian as most people might think, if you speak Russian you can understand the general context of a conversation between two Poles speaking Polish. I would assume it is the same the other way around.

That said, Ukrainian would be a lot closer to Polish than Russian is.

Feedback / Any chance of a sports category on PF [29]


Yes, I have been to the last "game" of Orzel Lodz against Rzeszow last season which was fairly exciting so i have decided to visit a few more this season. Next will be Orzel vs. Lokomotiv Daugavpils.


I don't think so. There are plenty of sports in Poland that don't involve hooligans but good atmosphere. Take Volleyball or Speedway as an example.

I would have liked to share my groundhopping stories here. They could not be classed as "news" and I would prefer not to see them in the "Event" section.

Also, there have been questions from others about Stadia, how to get there, where to go before the game and how to buy tickets, from other people on here. A sports secition could be a good addition to the forum in my opinion.

I am not sure @ Admin. Was this a yes or a no?

I would also like to post my impressions from the Europa League final but again I would prefer not to call a football game an "event" . Any chance of a sports category?

UK, Ireland / Polish plane almost kills off UKIP leader Nigel Farage in 2010. [24]


You are mixing things up. Voting pro-SNP does not mean voting against immigration. You need to do your research better.

The SNP has nothing to do with the BNP which essentially have two different goals. Just because it says "Nationalist" in their names, doesn't mean they have similar goals. If anything, the SNP is very well aware that in order for Scotland to flourish, they need immigration. Something the BNP would never admit for Britain as a whole.

Work / What website do you use to seek multinational job opportunities in Poland? [7]

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@ Italian, try toplangugejobs. Plenty of good jobs in Poland advertised there. And please don't let DominicB convince you with his posts about how any job below senior management is not worth your time.........

DominicB is not the subject of this thread

Life / Concerns of a Swede who is about to go to Poland for work [53]


Do you have any experience in a position in which you have to evaluate C.V.'s? Are you saying that a 5500 zlotych job in Poland for a 22 year old is below average (nevermind the abroad experience) ?


To move to Poland for a "lousy" 7000 zlotych was not on the table. It was 5500 zlotych plus the experience money can not buy for a young man. Your nonsense was only about money, not about the fact that his C.V. would be evaluated on his experience abroad plus his education.

You talk like someone who does / produces. That's fine. Don't give advice on what his experience will be worth on his C.V. because that appears to be above your salary grade.

Life / Concerns of a Swede who is about to go to Poland for work [53]


Based on.......


and the responses you got of people who either don't live in Poland or just simply produce nonsense?

If you manage to live on 7000 PLN per month in Sweden, do you think that 5500 PLN in Poland would be too little?

It's a pity that you let a good chance of getting experience abroad in a beautiful country go past by taking the nonsense posts of Lyzko and Gosc into consideration.

If you can live of 7k PLN in Sweden you would have ball on 5.5k PLN in Poland.

My advice to you would be to just quit studying because it does not matter how long you study or what you study if you allow your mind to be made up by the non-educated opinions of some.

Study / Studying in University of Lodz as an Indian student? What's the city like - is it safe here? [56]


So basically you do not know. Just because he was never seen again, does not mean he was deported back to his country.


You just do not know otherwise you would know exactly who deported him.

According to EU / Schengen regulations the person will be deported back to the where he entered the country from. So, even if he made it to Denmark, the Danes would have deported him back to Germany and then the Germans would have deported him back to Poland.

That is of course if they can trace the route he took to get to Denmark. In this case I am sure they would have been able to do so as he was under the assumptions to be legal and would said how he travelled.


That's because there is no city center traffic anymore due to the blocked roads. All roads lead around the center and they are blocked. Do you drive in Lodz? It took me 45 minutes to get from Pomorska to Miedziana yesterday. That's a 7 minute drive when the roads are clear.


Since when are cyclists spoiled in Lodz? There is hardly any cyclists path. They have to cycle on the pedestrian path in order not get hit by a car. Do you ever venture out of Piotrkowska and see other parts of Lodz?

We all know how much the Irish like their stories, after all, every single Irish person was in Stuttgart in 1988, but please, try to stick to facts and not to something you heard somewhere and then sell it as facts. Keep that for when you enjoy your Guinness down at Piotrkowska 77.

Don't get personal because another poster has a different opinion, the thread is about £ódź

History / Politics of Poland in past, present and future; your opinion [21]

Well Crow, it is not just "two girls". They represent each others country and believe or not, the Poles don't have a very high opinion of Russia.

Looks like your beloved fantasy "Slavia" is falling apart before it even started. What a pity........

Work / Possibly changing jobs in Lodz - higher salary [19]


That's quite a disappointing reply because there are always ways and methods to do something, specially in the company you are currently working for.

She is of course right in saying that she personally can not do anything i.e. give you a counter offer, but she certainly is able to make a recommendation to her manager and her manager to theirs.

It might be different when you hand your notice letter to her. She might wake up then.