Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]


I have the impression they hiked up their prices considerably this year. I wanted to buy corned beef (as far as I know only they sell it here in Warsaw), but 23 PLN for a tin....

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]


I am at a guess what you do with 5 kg of cheese? I would understand how to digest a crate of Belgian Duvel beer....but 5 kg Cheddar?

Work / Does google voice work correctly in Poland? [22]

What is the benefit / difference from Google Voice as to Skype?
I am using Skype since many years (paying and not paying version), never heard of Google Voice.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]


That's indeed not cheap. Speaking about cheese and Lidl...They used to sell Dutch Gouda cheese in chunks which was quite good (it even tasted like cheese, which cannot be said from the majority of the cheese sold in Lidl). Sadly I do not see it anymore on the shelves.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Harry is that the part behind Hala Mirowska - so not bordering on JPII?

Language / Frustrated Polish Learner -- people in Poland try to speak to me in English [31]


A2/B1 is not perfect, far from it. What I still have problems with though is the "language"used by US, NFZ, ZUS...It seems to come from another planet. But then, for my (Polish) wife their correspondence is also hard to understand.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Yes, that's the one.

Language / Frustrated Polish Learner -- people in Poland try to speak to me in English [31]

I would judge my Polish to be A2/B1. I honestly find it hard to talk with Poles in any other language besides Polish. I do not have that experience, that Poles switch to a foreign language if they recognize a foreign language.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Here in Warszawa Bielany the local Lidl has since a few days a fresh supply. And still on sale.

News / PiS spokesman steps down after Poland's CBA find undeclared cash in his bank account [22]


How long are you in Poland, how long do you pay taxes here?

News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [72]


He thinks everybody in Europe is part of this mystical entity called Sarmatia, ranging from the Scots to the Greeks. I doubt anybody likes the Serbs at all. Specialists at bombing innocent cities (Sarajevo), mass-raping women...And thanks God being bombed back into the Stone Age by NATO. Wasn't it Bismarck btw who told that we should build a wall around the Balkans and leave them to their own devices?

Food / Coffee in Poland: cheap and undrinkable / expensive and good [89]

Merged: Coffee in Poland

Since I moved to Poland ages ago, I always have had an issue with coffee in Poland - not the Starbucks invasion, but the one you buy in the shop.

Or you have the cheap (and equally disgusting) Jacobs, Tchibo etc...or you have the idiotically expensive Lily, Lavazzo etc...
But there is nothing in between. I always stock up when I am back home in Belgium. Costs half price as compared to Poland, much better quality.

Law / Taxation of a Freelancer in Poland - list of tributes for the government to pay [9]


If you work on the basis of a "umowa o dzieło", you pay your own ZUS. Basically you get for each assignment a new umowa, and you invoice your customer likewise.

Life / Egzamin prawo jazdy. Driving Test in Poland. Bribing the instructor? [17]


If you see the driving style of the average Warsaw driver, I would be very tempted to doubt this.

Law / Taxation of a Freelancer in Poland - list of tributes for the government to pay [9]

Do you work "na zlecenie" or with "umowa o dzieło".? Both are basically freelance, but the intake is different.Makes a big difference.

USA, Canada / Indian citizen working in Poland want to apply for US student visa [3]

Translation: You tried to sneak into the EU via Poland. The idea was afterwards to sneak into the US.
Questions: 1. Why didn't you apply for a US visa straight from India (because you would be refused, point-blank? ) 2. Why are you getting tired from Poland? Could it be that you realize your Polish working visa entitles you just that...working in Poland? 3. Did you perhaps "study" at a Polish "university" before? 4. Why not study back home in India...or in Singapore...Malaysia...

Love / Best, safe Polish dating sites? [95]

It reminds me of this "speed-dating" thing. I once watched this on TV. I do not know whether to call it funny, sad, or pathetic?

Still, dating two girls in one week's time.....

Life / Conflicting views about life in Poland? [45]


Including all these "students" from Third World countries coming to "study" at "universities" (which are in fact commercial companies, earning hugely on these kind of customers) whose degrees have practically no value at all. There lately seems to be a real invasion of this.


Marks & Sparks have a decent selection...according to my wife (I stick to coffee)


This mentality I think is typical for "Polska B"

By the way...coffee. I am living in Poland already for many years, and the coffee situation... As I see it...you have Jacobs, Tchibo etc..which are for me hardly drinkable but cheap. And then you have Lavazzo, Ily...which are in my view outrageously expensive.

I always stock up with coffee when I go back home to Belgium. Thanks God Wizzair has a 32 kg luggage allowance :)

Travel / Ryanair flying domestic in Poland? [46]

Ah, thanks a lot for the information :)

Also after March there are no Ryanair domestic flights available...I wonder if they exist somehow?

Love / Indian girl met a Polish guy and got pregnant. He doesn't want to marry me and my visa expires... [14]

As for work, I would try with Infosys in £ódż. It is an Indian company, and they still plan to hire 3000 people. Lots of Indians work there already.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]


Same here in Warsaw. Even in the branch connected to their head office in Warsaw, I never saw it.

Love / Best, safe Polish dating sites? [95]

It shows why he came to Poland, what he thinks of Polish women and of women in general. Maybe I am old-fashioned, but for me this is distasteful.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Somebody here mentioned Biedronka also sells Cheddar...Is that on a regular basis? Because I never saw in our local store. I for sure like Cheddar. My wife and daughters think it is a bit odd...But they are Polish, what do they know :)

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Lidl will sell Cheddar again next week, if their weekly promotion brochure is correct.
In my local store it was sold out in a few hours' time, already on Sunday.

Love / Do Polish people like Scottish people (friendship or relationship with a Scot)? [56]

Exactly. That's him.

Law / Buying a custom/private Polish number/registration plate in Poland [20]


Exactly. First you need to register your car, and then go to your local Gmina, where they will issue plates.
If you are a foreigner without permanent residency, you will be directed to one central office who issue plates in such case

Love / Do Polish people like Scottish people (friendship or relationship with a Scot)? [56]


Somewhere in Warsaw Old Town, there is a plaque about a Scot who became mayor of Warsaw in 16th (?) century. I will have a look at it when I go to my pub - it's on the way :)

Work / How much to pay a housekeeper in Warsaw? [23]

I have never heard somebody paying such kind of work officially.

Life / Do Polish children have a typical bedtime? [11]


In our kamienica here in Bielany, Warsaw, there is a very clear sign "Cisza Nocna 22:00 - 06:00", which in general well observed.