News / Multi-culti (in Poland) -- roadmap to disaster? [344]

How Foreigner Friendly is Krakow?

Interesting read as Krakow and Poland as a whole become more Foreigner Friendly / Multicultural :)

krakowpost.com/article/2659

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

To be honest as an outsider looking in I have to say my most favourite POLish beer with the BEST after taste is Leżajsk! I’ve been enjoying this for many years and to be honest I have had all the major brands and I do like them. But for me there is something about POLish beer, and for me it is Leżajsk. I’ve been going to POLand for many a year now and this year was extra special one for me as a very good friend got me a tour of the Leżajsk brewery (private of course), they have no official tours. Was an amazing experience, as I have been to many different breweries. BUT this was extra special! Did you know Leżajsk is the ONLY brewery in the world to have its OWN water source on-site! YES! All the water comes directly from the well below it and is tested multiple times a day. One of/ if NOT the most expensive parts of brewing beer is water, regardless of where is comes from and how famous it is, water is the MAIN ingredient. Leżajsk has this on-site, no truck, unlimited, and fresh . Now being owned by Zywiec yes they do brew other beers but this was special for me. I have many a more memories of this brewery which I will not put on this forum but I have to say Leżajsk tastes SO MUCH better having the experiences I have had. Every time I open a Leżajsk, I know the history and exactly what is involved. BUT to be impartial I have to say the Czech beer has the best taste hands down of all Europe. The German’s are known for beer and so are the Belgian’s, but the Czech’s make a wicked beer! There is something about the taste that goes into their beer that makes such an experience of drinking it, unlike any other beer. With all this said, most people who haven have never been to POLand or have just HEARD of POLAnd think instantly vodka. AND to be honest there are some great vodkas out of POLand, even though I am not a huge vodka fan. BUT POLish beer is seriously under rated on a world scale. So next time you think of having a POLish beer, personally I recommend Leżajsk!!!

Travel / Water parks / theme-amusement parks in Poland [13]

I believe there is a water park close to zakopane, I saw the signs for it when I was there. Then again it might have been in Slovakia, which is not that far away.

USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]

″aphrodisiac

been away this weekend and again I had to pleasure to travel on the train, which by now I have to admit is loosing its appeal.

The lack of fresh air (the heat was ON) made me think that many Polish men are afraid of catching cold. I asked one to open the window, which he did, but once the train started moving, he almost jumped up and closed it.

Apart from the amazing ability to lift suitcases (mine included) by Polish men, I have nothing else to report on train traveling at the moment.″

LOL!

You made me laugh

Polish people are afraid of 2 things. Russians and DRAFTS ha ha ha.

Kills me.

You can’t get a cold from a draft… OR WIND… or a breeze. Yes the cold air lowers your immunity and can make you more vulnerable to getting a cold but it can’t give you a cold. A cold is a VIRAL!....

Thanx, I’m done

Classifieds / Upcoming Festivals in Krakow! [15]

Coke Live Music Festival
livefestival.pl

Law / The 'Secret' of Poland's Economic Success [83]

Morgan Stanley To Open Office in Poland

"Warsaw is fast establishing itself as a leading financial centre in Central and Eastern Europe. As it opens up to global capital markets, there is considerable demand from Polish clients for investment banking and capital raising solutions, and Morgan Stanley, with its global franchise, network and capabilities, is uniquely placed to deliver such solutions,"

Law / The 'Secret' of Poland's Economic Success [83]

NEVER!

J/K

2012... Probably more like 2014

Law / The 'Secret' of Poland's Economic Success [83]

GREAT read, from a different point of view ;)

Is Poland Too Cocky About Its Economy?
The Eastern European giant's relative success during the global economic crisis may have bred a dangerous complacency about its real fiscal prospects

businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/apr2010/gb2010048_192248.htm

Perhaps being named European finance minister of the year has gone to Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski's head. After Poland's stellar but slightly lucky economic performance in 2009, some economists say Rostowski is dangerously downplaying risks that could weigh on the country's prosperity, undermining the credibility of his government's fiscal-deficit reduction efforts and narrowing Poland's path to the eurozone.

Civic Platform, Poland's senior ruling coalition party, is clearly hoping to avoid painful reforms before the presidential election this autumn and the parliamentary election in 2011. It also wants to ensure that the public-finance deficit is cut from over 7% of gross domestic product to below 3%, as required for adopting the euro.

News / WHY DOES POLAND BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA? [105]

Poland could become major gas supplier

upi.com/Business_News/2010/04/05/Poland-could-become-major-gas-supplier/UPI-12281270495487/

WARSAW

Poland, April 5 (UPI) -- Oil and gas experts predict Poland will become a major natural gas supplier with enough reserves to make it self-sufficient in the near future.

One firm, Wood Mackenzie, estimates Poland has 48 trillion cubic feet of reserves in areas deemed unconventional but accessible through an extraction technique developed in the United States that now produces 50 percent of the U.S. natural gas output.

The technique of hydraulic fracturing allows energy companies to extract natural gas from tight rock formations, The Times of London Online reported Monday.

Law / The 'Secret' of Poland's Economic Success [83]

What goes around comes around in Poland

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/What+goes+around+comes+around+Poland/2735897/story.html

The less sensitive in the media have described it as the third invasion over the past 100 years. Ouch. But tragic events of the past aside, it is beyond mere passing interest that Germans are once again streaming into Poland.

This time, it's for jobs. That's right. Even though Germany remains Europe's richest country as expressed by GDP, the economic downturn and resulting unemployment has scrambled up the old order somewhat. Last week, British newspaper stories reported 2,500 German job-seekers are registered in and around the Polish port city of Szczecin with more than double that figure expected as the vise tightens in the old country

Law / The 'Secret' of Poland's Economic Success [83]

No country is perfect and there are bad policies in every government, but you got to admit they have done something right... It's not like this awesomeness was just handed to them.

Poland Is Far From Lostonline.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704869304575109312944174170.html

With the Obama Administration working overtime on remodeling the U.S. economy after Sweden, ca. 1975, formerly Communist Poland remains one of the world's last free-market champions. Unlike most Western governments, Warsaw refused to blow its hard-earned zlotys on futile attempts to pump-prime the economy and is the better for it now.

News / WHY DOES POLAND BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA? [105]

Liquefied natural gas
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_natural_gas

I can't find the news article but I know Poland has signed NUMEROUS contracts with countries such as Qatar for example to import liquefied natural gas. I also can't find the article I read which was talking about Poland frantically trying to finish a massive liquefied natural gas refinery in the north (near Gdansk). So they can begin excepting shipments from oh I dunno..... other countries that ACTUALLY want to do business with them, instead of playing Russian Roulette (no pun intended).

I know old habits die hard buy if Poland follows through and gets nuclear power plants installed/up and running in the next 20 years, people could begin using electricity for more things as it would be cheaper. Thus not having to rely on Russian/foreign natural gas.... And when I mean "use electricity for more thing", I mean a stove instead of natural gas. I know electricity is expensive in Poland most parts of Europe and natural gas has just been more common. But just like here in Canada, and I am sure across Europe, energy monopolies are everywhere.

Just in case you were wondering the majority of houses in Canada are heated by natural gas, and a good portion of stoves use electricity not natural gas.

Law / CHINESE TO BUILD POLISH ROADS.... [92]

My two cents ;)

I find it interesting that a Chinese company won a contract in Poland to build roads; I mean I think it’s great actually.

The world is changing so much and it was just a matter of time until a contract like this was signed.

I know there are probably a lot of Polish people upset over the fact that Polish people are not the ones building the road let alone won the contract. The world is in recession and Poland for the most part averted it, but it would have been nice to see the jobs go to hard working Poles

Which I guess brings me to my next comment.

Now cheap labor is always in demand (Anywhere) and this contract was obviously low balled. I read COUNTLESS threads about Brits being pissed about the 600,000 Poles in Britain and how they are for a lack of better words “taking our jobs”. My point being now that Poles have seen someone else take there jobs, they thought they were entitled to get in their own country is the definition of IRONYYYYYYY

Amazing when the tables are turned, isn’t it!

USA, Canada / Southern Ontario (Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo) and Polish Women [32]

Glogowski Euro Food (Kitchener)
403 Highland Rd W, Kitchener N2M 3C6, Ontario
p: 5195847190

Nougat (Kitchener)

nougat.ca

Starsky's (Mississauga)

starskycanada.com

Good Festival's coming up this summer ;) (Polish and Non-Polish)

Polish festival (Toronto)

polishfestival.ca

Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Festival

kwmc.on.ca/html/food.html

Jazz festival (Waterloo)

uptownwaterloojazz.ca

Language / Free and accurate Online Polish-English / English-Polish translator? [49]

Awesome! Thanx Osiol and Krysia ;)

Language / Free and accurate Online Polish-English / English-Polish translator? [49]

Apr 19, 09, 17:52 - Thread attached on merging:
Polish to English translator

Does anyone know of a good Polish to English translator and vis versa?

Similar to yahoo's translator, which works fairly well ;)

babelfish.yahoo/

Language / Collection of learning resources for learning the Polish language [129]

Survival Polish - expats-in-poland.com/?mod=fs_epdict