My trip to Krakow and its ups and downs.

Yeah. Judging them all on your experience of a few. Your'e not racist are you. You're better than them 3rd worlders.

that works both ways.

i've been in plenty of barroom brawls. all in england. it's what some folk do, whatever the country.

u got caught out and that's all there is to it. try middlesbrough or newcastle on a saturday night ffs

Compared to the likes of Nottingham and Bristol, Kraków is a safe haven. Those guys didn't beat you. Some in England have no hesitation about punching you.

It was a legit forum question. He wanted to know if what happened to him was an isolated incident, or routine.
And looking at the replies, we can clearly see that there are many unstable people everywhere. ;)

Ah, but he started getting abusive afterwards. His beef is with them, not with Kraków and he even said as much. Leave nationality out of it. I often feel like telling people I'm Jamaican, just to see their reaction. I hate this, 'oh, you're Scottish' reaction. What's that supposed to mean, exactly? So they can slap a nice sticker on me?

Who wouldn't, after the kind of answers he received?

What, so you think getting abusive is the right way forward?

It's an understandable way forward.

It is in some way, yes. However, the fact remains that Kraków is a pretty safe place to drink in the centre.

knowing the city and not getting involved in other folk's problems might make the night a little more enjoyable.

Precisely. Many Poles tend not to take too kindly to getting involved, noble as the intention was.

Indeed, i was genuine in wanting to know if this thing was a common event in krakow, since I really enjoyed my stay there, but I dont really wanna go back if i'm gonna end up getting a bottle to the back of my head just for having a black friend with me, or for me speaking English, or for me just having a drink and being assumed Im a 'british tourist whos annoying some Pole'.

And ye, the answers i got about me being black or not then the racist comments didnt exactally make me wanna be polite back.

Maybe I was wrong to get involved but Im not a dick, if a girls in trouble, and im asked to help, I will. Next time i'll just ignore it.

Kevend

Are you aware that you talk with two Englishmen and a Scotman? If you drew conclusions like those in the post #21 based on what your fellow countrymen replied to you... then it seems you've just shown your true colors.

good. u never know if it's part of a scam or not.

You should as gratitude is definitely not the strong suit of many people here. Best keep yourself in one piece.

That's intresting statement. Could you elaborated what kind of help was it?

Yeah, that surprised me too.

Hi Guys

I have being reading the BS that has come out of Keved, I visit Krakow almost on a weekly basis and never had any trouble(apart from being referred to as English when I am Irish). The comment that Poland would have being gassed off the planet were it not for the british, were it not the brits that abandoned Europe after the war and led to the division of Europe for 50 years.

Any way, I just had enough of reading crap, saying that Poland is third world country and not safe to visit, but I guess any CHAV can travel these days, thanks to the greatest Irish company called Ryanair.

When in Krakow, I always go to bars that do not have stag do's in them.

then you might want to step away from this forum, until it's renamed "Only good things about Poland".

i don't mind reading people's opinions if they are true, but it just sounds like this guy has a chip on his shoulder because of meeting a couple of guys. I don't mind some one saying any thing bad about something if it is based on fact.

I would say that the roads are not the best and krakow airport is a bit of a disappointment. But then I find 95% of the people that i meet are grand.

Balice is fine, I like it. Small and easy to navigate around. An airport shouldn't be a palace with marble ;0

the guy had a bad experience,could have happened in any city I suppose, never mind what did or didn't happen 60 years ago.

unlike T2 in Dublin

I don't think he is the one with the chip. He described the good points of the trip, then the incident.

Come on, f stop. 3rd world? Gassing? Implying that it was the Poles that killed the Jews in the Holocaust. Racist? He slung a lot of mud around and I'd be offended if I were a Pole. He doesn't seem to grasp how dickish Brits seem when boozed up.

okay maybe not a chip on shoulder, but it sounds as if he is making a bigger deal than it was( with his reference to how England helped Poland, why throw that in), you get people that are arrogant in every city in every town.

c'mon, look at his itenerary, Seanus. Then, when he wanted some balance, he encountered lowlifes. Most of the time, on a vacation, it takes a moment of feeling like a victim to write off a whole city. To his credit, he's not doing that. Or, at least he was not doing it in the first post. Damn, I like this band:

youtube.com/watch?v=myPot7hPdTA

You better f stop talking rubbish.
Read all that stuff he wrote and tell me that is all nothing and his expressions are understandable.

Let's assume for a moment that he isn't troll. He make acquittance with some girls, he stick with them in hope that he will get laid. Some guys who these girls hanged out with after few minutes noticed what this is all about, and told them to get lost, they did. No harm done.

Now, OP is a prick and arrogant cowardly prick.
He could go for brawl but he didn't. Instead he runs away like a *****. Thats what is bothering him - there is a big ego in a big craven.

That is the reason for all this hateful crap he is sprouting.

I better?? Now, you can talk to yourself.

Yes and what's more kevend have you ever heard of White Trash ? It is everywhere in Western and Eastern Europe , SA and in the US.

It is unfortunate but one cannot judge a whole city and country when meeting skinheads...