Travel / Hiking around Zakopane/ Tatra mountains [33]


I've now read multiple blogs and watched videos. In winter, yes, you would require equipment due to snow and ice. I wouldn't even consider this in winter but the videos I've watched show even kids up there. There are a couple of exposed places with sheer drops but there are chains to hold onto. The trails are good but can be slippery in wet weather. I think you would definitely need to be very careful and there are quite a few accidents on it each year.

travelandsqueak.com/hiking-rysy-mountain/

adventurous-travels.com/posts/trail-to-rysy-the-highest-peak-in-poland

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

Different filling? Different type of cabbage used?

Travel / Hiking around Zakopane/ Tatra mountains [33]


A couple of hours drive away. I was staying there with friends when I took my only visit to Zakopane. It was sunny and clear on the way, raining once I got there so I didn't get to see the Tatra mountains :(

What I should have asked was if you have ever climbed Rysy, and if so, did you find it particularly hard?

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

@ Novichok

What about the years from 1966 till 1984 in the US when you didn't own a gun? You obviously felt safe without one for the best part of 20 years so what changed?

Life / Polish women who made amazing careers against patriarchal society [128]


There have been many mentioned already on this thread. Even if I provided more names you would just engage in misogyny and nit-picking so there is no point. However, on the subject of questions, there is another of mine which you failed to answer waiting on the gun thread. Perhaps you could oblige?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]

Does this have anything at all to do with the French meaning? Can't see a connection.

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


Nope. Neither would I order it. Same with the eel pie. Tried eel once, it was vile.


It's still on the English food thread. There were a couple of things I'd never even heard of in that link. Scouse and Anglesey eggs. Maybe more common up north but not where I am.

They had the traditional roast dinner and fish and chips, both of which are delicious if cooked well. The problem I think with British food is that so often it isn't cooked well. Every pub carvery will have a roast where it's been slowly festering under hot light for up to a few hours resulting in potatoes like bullets and dried out meat. Fish and chips can be a greasy mess if the oil isn't hot enough......I'm very fussy about how food is cooked.


Truly delicious. I don't see it on menus much these days.


Very 1970s. To be honest I've never really understood the attraction of gammon. So many people I know love it but although I would eat it I wouldn't buy it. I feel the same way about bacon to be honest......and sausages, although I quite like Toad in the hole.

UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]


😂 😂 😂


Just vile and a heart attack on a plate. Needs a defibrillator to hand.


Just how I like my tea but a bone china cup would be better :)

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


No, I can't. Is it some kind of strainer? There looks to be foil shaped to hold something in it and a bit of foil to cover it but no idea what for.


It would have to be wouldn't it ;)

Travel / Hiking around Zakopane/ Tatra mountains [33]


Have you done any hiking there?

I wanted to go to Morskie Oko and then discovered that Rysy is above Czarny Staw Pod Rysami.

I've watched a couple of videos and done some reading about the hike up to Rysy. Some parts look a bit scary and the weather would obviously play a big factor. This would be in late summer.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


Looks a bit like Gołąbki.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

Is that part of a candle holder/grave lantern - znicze?

The date is All Saint's Day so you're going to the cemetery to light the candle/lantern? Not sure about the foil though or maybe the whole guess is wrong.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


Were you at a cemetery for All Saints/All Soul's Day and taking a picture of all the candles at night?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


I know. There are real lights there and you are adjusting camera settings.


What I had in mind was exposure settings, longer shutter speeds and wider aperture to capture light trails.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


Like this one:

https://polishforums.com/travel/poland-photo-riddles-part-85223/12/#msg1756815

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

Light effects? Are you playing with settings on your camera/phone?

Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [162]


My Vauxhall Tigra was one of the most reliable cars I had.


Not in the UK. Just on a practical level there simply won't ever be enough charging stations available. At home charging for EV's would be a joke with so many houses converted to flats etc with no driveways and only on street parking.

Electric prices continue to soar, EV's are destroying the roads because they're so heavy and if something goes wrong with them you will need deep pockets to get them fixed.


There some on the roads in California:

caranddriver.com/features/a41103863/hydrogen-cars-fcev/

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

Looks like a well-used keyboard considering the amount of lost lettering.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


So what about all the years you spent in the US before 1984? You felt safe enough that you didn't need to own a gun?

Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [162]


Nice looking car. Had to google as hadn't heard of it before.


Probably yes. Same with the Frog-Eye Sprite I had.

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [961]

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]


Finding somewhere closed so you don't have to do what you were intending to do?

USA, Canada / Polish wife for Chicago Pole - TV show [8]


I remember switching channels and seeing a clip of the UK version of the farmer wants a wife or love in the countryside. It featured a young girl in stilettos looking like she was going clubbing trying to negotiate the mud on a pig farm.

I didn't watch much more because it was so obviously a set up with totally mismatched people there for entertainment value. Maybe the Polish one will be a bit different but I think a lot of people go on these shows for their 5 minutes of fame. I can't say I'm a fan of these reality shows as I find them uninteresting.


I have already proved to you that men are equally capable of just the same with the video I posted on another thread. I don't know any women on this side of the pond that behave anything remotely like any of the women in your videos so it appears that the US has more than its fair share of nutters.

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [961]

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Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


There is no 'tolerable' number. However, you need to give exact figures. After all, it's nothing less than you demand from PF members for your ridiculous questions.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


It's a bowl for one of your pets then. I can't imagine your cats liking Surówka though, is it for the tortoise?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


The only thing I can think of is that it has a sort of symbolic meaning? In the sense that there's always an empty plate for the stranger on Wigilia, this is a bowl for a family member who has passed?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


You can reject it but it is obvious from what you have written that you are in the wrong and it will kill you to admit it :)


Then it must be to do with how it's served? In that bowl? I don't think the date is significant.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

Surówka?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


But yes :):)

You have written clearly in your own words that your wife made vegetarian croquettes :):)


Looks like carrot, cabbage and cucumber.