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From: United Kingdom
Speaks Polish?: No
Interests: Touring European countries with Motorhome

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Bulletguy   
4 Jan 2012
Travel / Driving from UK to Ukraine via Poland - need car insurance [46]

i drove from the UK to Belarus. With Belarus the only difference is that you need visas (and with the Ukraine you don't anymore if you're British), but having spoken to other drivers, the procedures are similar......

Your post interested me.

I am a UK citizen and long wanted to visit Belarus (as well as Ukraine). I tour many European countries with a Campervan/Motorhome. However getting in to Belarus is proving a problem with one of the Visa requirements being to state the "inviting party".......in other words they want the name and address of where you will be staying. As I tour using a Campervan, that is problem as I don't ever have an "inviting party" address.

So how did you get in to Belarus?

I contacted the Belarussian Embassy in London which was not a very good experience. They were quite rude and abrupt to say the least and did not even have a clue what a Campervan or Motorhome is!
Bulletguy   
5 Jan 2012
Travel / Driving from UK to Ukraine via Poland - need car insurance [46]

Be carefull where you park your motorhome tho... wild camping in Belarus is not allowed , and there are not so many decent camping places.....

My hopeful thought on that was finding some friendly village farmer or similar only too willing to allow me to park up on their land in exchange for a few Belarusian rubles! At some point i'd eventually need mains power unless I keep on the move every few days.

You say there are 'not so many camping areas'. Are there any at all and if so where/how are they found? The Belarusian Embassy were most unhelpful.
Bulletguy   
6 Jan 2012
Travel / Driving from UK to Ukraine via Poland - need car insurance [46]

Don,t let the unhelpfull people at the Embassy put you off , once you get into Belarus , you will find that the people are friendly and very hospitable....

I have to ask....are you resident British with knowledge of Russian language?

I don't speak any Russian neither do I have knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet and would rely on SatNav (the one I have does have Belarus installed) plus normal mapping for navigation. I have usually overcome the language barrier in other countries but Belarus would be a 'first' for me....assuming I can get in!
Bulletguy   
10 Jan 2012
Travel / Driving from UK to Ukraine via Poland - need car insurance [46]

Yes , I am English , currently living in Poland...My Knowledge of Russian is minimal , and when i went to Belarus , Ukraine and Russia i could not speak a word of it....

Thanks WR.

Where in Poland are you living?

I've toured the length and breadth of Poland and still keep going back! Love the place..and the people. Currently planning a three or four month tour during summer this year and will be in Poland (again!). Still more places I need to see, Gdansk, Treblinka, Sobibor (though i've been there before), Majdanek and Belzec.
Bulletguy   
10 Jan 2012
Travel / Driving from UK to Ukraine via Poland - need car insurance [46]

actually between Drawsko Pomorskie , and Polczyn Zdroj..

Very nice area you are living in. I've passed through a few times heading for Swinoujscie on my way up to Peenemunde.

Never quite made Majdanek despite being fairly close. I was always on limited time due to work but now i'm retired and have all the time in the world to tour as long as I want to! As you probably gathered I have a keen interest in WW2 history and visit any related sites. Not everyone's idea of a holiday I know, but I am of an age where WW2 history was never taught at School and also rarely discussed.
Bulletguy   
10 Jan 2012
Travel / Driving from UK to Ukraine via Poland - need car insurance [46]

That's on my list of "Places to Visit" Harry!

I research all these places first at home via the internet, log them on Autoroute mapping, then from that begin drawing up a rough sketch of a route.
Bulletguy   
10 Jan 2012
Travel / Driving from UK to Ukraine via Poland - need car insurance [46]

When you are up there, the best place in the area to stay is the castle at a little town called Reszel. Gorgeous place which has been converted into a very individual four star hotel,

My "Hotel" is on four wheels Harry! Maybe not quite four star but has all I need including onboard water tanks, H&C water, Shower, Toilet, Cooker and oven, Fridge, plus multi-standard TV so if I want to, I can tune in to Polish television...if I could understand it!

I just move on to another area whenever i'm ready to go.
Bulletguy   
10 Jan 2012
Travel / Driving from UK to Ukraine via Poland - need car insurance [46]

They are few and far between, and much less sophisticated than in the west or up north toward the Baltic. I made an overnight at one near Sobibor which was very basic and no English spoken at all......which proved to be fun when I tried to get some kind of a meal! Just pointed to photographs on the wall of what I wanted!
Bulletguy   
14 Jan 2012
Travel / Driving from UK to Ukraine via Poland - need car insurance [46]

"Bar pod Samolotem", hard to miss: it's got a twin engined turboprop parked in the garden (which is painted purple and pink).

Purple and Pink?!!!!

That's worth a photo just for a laugh!

A lot of the stuff above ground has been destroyed , but there are miles of underground bunkers to explore....

Sounds like the sort of place I enjoy snooping around though I don't relish the idea of disappearing down some shaft never to be found again! Is the place fenced off as a restricted area?
Bulletguy   
27 Jan 2018
Travel / Help with a travel plan to Poland [72]

Even in the summer time, Poland rarely gets hot enough to be considered hot and sweaty. Perhaps a week or two in August, at the most.

Hhmm......that depends on what you see as "hot and sweaty"! One year i was in Poland near Krakow with temps of 30+c driving a vehicle which has no air-con so that was certainly hot and yes i was sweating!!

Last year i was at Czaplinek (Drawsko West Pomeranian) returning from touring the Baltic states. The weather had been all over the place, some days sunny and warm, other days raining and even cold temps. Really weird. The day had been pleasant enough, blue skies and sun, but approaching Czaplinek i saw a massive black cloud looming and the weather turned. Gale force winds ripped 20 metre trees out of the ground like matchsticks. It was over in minutes but pretty damn scary.