Travel / Tourism in Poland [41]

It turns out that other media wrote about this phenomenon in Zakopane too:

tvn24.pl/krakow/zakopane-popularne-wsrod-turystow-z-krajow-arabskich-7275177

Apparently there are also other reasons for tourists from Arab countries to visit Zakopane, besides nature, weather and safety (a quote from the article):

"- Guests from Arab countries fell in love with the culture of Zakopane. They're saying that it's alive and genuine, which can't be said anymore about many resorts in Western Europe. They like our music, folk costumes and hospitality - described Wagner."


Really? Interesting...


Did you ask from what country?

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Oh, I didn't think about that... Is it really that expensive to visit as a tourist? 😔

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]

@Atch, honestly, even just the description makes me want to visit Ireland :)))) And thank you for the beautiful and relaxing video! 😍

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]


Ah, sorry, part of Finland is in that Great European Plain :))

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


You may as well add "by existing" to that list... LMAO

Maybe we shouldn't have an army at all - then we won't "provoke" RuSSia at all... LOL

I just can't with these people... 😂

My poor diaphragm today...

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]


I'm not sure if this has that much to do with it - if you look at the map of Europe the Great European Plain encompasses almost entire Poland with the exception of a very narrow strip in the South of Poland - and that's where we have mountains. In case of France and Germany it's the other way around - the Great European Plain takes up only a strip in the North of those countries and doesn't even touch Spain, Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Scandinavian countries and, obviously, the UK and Ireland which are islands. 🤔

Atch will be able to say more about this, of course, but when I look at the map of Ireland - it looks pretty hilly to me and sounds like a pretty varied landscape too:

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/5343/topography-of-ireland

"The topography of the island of Ireland features a hilly, central lowland composed of limestone surrounded by a broken border of coastal mountains. The mountain ranges vary greatly in geological structure. The mountain ridges of the south are composed of old, red sandstone separated by limestone river valleys. The limestone valleys appear as deep green grooves that tend to run in an east-west direction. (...)

The central plain, broken in places by low hills, is extensively covered with glacial deposits of clay and sand. It has considerable areas of bog and numerous lakes."

I also doubt that Ireland industrialised as fast and heavily as what is the UK today considering Irish history, Great Famine, etc.


Half of the US is flat, then there are the Great Plains and the other half are the Rocky Mountains and it shows in the road map:

ontheworldmap.com/usa/usa-road-map.html

So, I think that every country's topography is the biggest factor in the way roads look like. I mean, that's logical - you have to go around hills, mountains, lakes, bogs, etc. :))

Travel / Tourism in Poland [41]

@Ironside, what is racist? lol

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]

Btw, I think the reason why so many of Poland's roads are straight is because a lot of Poland is flat (Poland lies in the Great European Plain). We had a classmate at highschool who came all the way from Warsaw area to study at our art school and he had to live at the school's dormitory. He would go back home for holidays etc. and at some point he told us that whenever he travelled back home he couldn't get over how flat it is over there, because after a few years at our school he got accustomed to a more hilly landscape of the Holy Cross region :))

Atch, so I'm guessing Ireland is hilly then?

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]

And some winding roads in Ponidzie area :):

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Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]


You can feel invited :)))


Well, you know, we "Polish Shire" folk walk with pocket knives in our pockets and we have winding roads... and... and... and we pick wild forest mushrooms ! :D So, we defenitely do danger here! lol You should visit our region if you need adrenalin boost ;D

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]


Kadzielnia (the second and third photo in my #13 post) is that place where you can run down the zip line and there's this amphitheatre there:




That hill is called Karczówka and I loved that place as a child even though going to church there was quite a "hike" for a kid :)) You had to walk up the first part of the hill, then take a turn by the village (yes, a village on a hill in a city! :)) and go through an entrance "made" in big bushes. You walked into a meadow through that entrance with some houses on one side. Then you'd walk into the forest and you had to climb big, old stairs made of big slabs of stone with roots of the trees going through them. For a kid those stairs seemed to be made for giants :)) And at the end of the stairs you could see the church in the forest, with moss growing on the wall surrounding the former cloister complex.

After the mass me and my childhood friend would run down that hill like crazy singing songs from cartoons for kids lol

Magic :)))


Oh, defenitely, Atch! For example, my path to school was leading past that hill with a church on it and I loved to look at that hill on my way to school. The tower of the church was visible over the tips of the trees and when there was fog that tower would disappear completely as if nothing was there. The legend says that this is how the church was saved from getting destroyed by Nazi bombs - God hid it with the fog ;) It used to be a cloister, btw.

The hill looks amazing during autumn - like it's on fire with the tower's dome shining in the sun :)

Once I was late for school and my Polish teacher was worried. My friend from the times when I was a little kid (we lived in the same block of flats) was in the same class as me and she assured the teacher that I'm OK and joked that I'm probably staring at the trees on my way to school and that's why I'm late ;D

What can I say - I did love to look at that hill and the trees on the side of the pavement, especially during autumn (and I just had to go through the colourful leaves that fell to the ground, obviously! lol) ;D

History / Polish Army Day [82]


I'd just like to point out that it wasn't just any hot day, but the hottest day of 2023 and the hottest Polish Army Day in 30 years. I remember reading that on that day Spain and Poland were the countries with the highest temperatures in Europe.

It looks like this parade made it into international news:

reuters.com/world/europe/poland-holds-huge-military-parade-voters-focus-defence-2023-08-15/

cnn.com/2023/08/15/europe/poland-military-parade-europe-clout-intl/index.html

An interesting observation:

'"Poland shares borders not just with Ukraine and Belarus, but also with Russia's semi-exclave of Kaliningrad. By staging a massive showcase of power on Tuesday, Warsaw is sending a message Russia and Belarus are bound to understand, experts said.

"It's sort of a Soviet thing to do. Russia does theirs on May 8, Belarusians have them, as does North Korea, Iran. It's kind of reflecting back their language. The adversary states see these [parades] as a show of force, so Poland is going to meet it with a show of force," Edward Arnold, a research fellow at the British security think tank RUSI, told CNN.'


To be more precise - it was the flag of Poland, Polish president's pennant and the flag of Polish Special Forces:

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Was it Kadzielnia?

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Oh, I forgot about his photo :P:

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To be fair, we were probably taught such stuff at school, but I simply forgot :P ;)

I do remember from history classes that my region had a period of prosperity and development, but then the partitions happened and that was the end of it, if I remember right.


This name sounds familiar...

And some more photos from Ponidzie region :):

Photos by Wiktor Baron, Jakub Perlikowski and Przemysław Kruk:

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Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]

@Feniks, yes, sometimes I feel a little bit like I live in the Shire from the Lord of the Rings lol :):



Kozubowski Landscape Park in the Ponidzie region

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News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

Don't get me wrong, the Nazi occupation in Poland was very cruel and they killed many non-Jewish Poles and used them as slave labour:

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/polish-victims

But you can't possibly say that GG was a death camp, if you know what death camps were like and what was going on in those camps. That's simply going too far.

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

@Ironside, it's not that I don't understand "things", it's just your comments are often simply babble without much sense like that post #241.

GG wasn't a death camp for Poles. Comparing GG to places like Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, etc. is delusional.

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]


By that I meant that the city is surrounded by the Holy Cross Mountains which are covered in forests (and that's what I love about my city :)):















As a kid I would go to this church and this is were I had my First Communion and Confirmation, can you imagine? :):



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So you're half Scyzoryk :D

Travel / Unusual architecture - bulidings and structures in Poland [28]

Some 2023 architecture news - the Summer Theatre in Szczecin, which was built in communist times thanks to local community effort and rebuilt recently got into the final of World Architecture Festival 2023:

sukces.rp.pl/architektura/art38746361-szczecinski-teatr-w-finale-swiatowego-festiwalu-architektury-symbol-miasta

The Summer Theatre during the day:



At night:

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]


The one in Kielce is also commonly called "spodek", but, unlike the one in Katowice, it's a bus station :) It was built in 1984 and renovated in recent years.

Kielce's "spodek" at night:

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]

@Ironside, you make no sense lol

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]


What?

If you mean that GG was basically a death camp then that's clearly not true (at least not for Poles).


That I lie and you don't o_O 🤦


What "truth"??

You really should learn to express yourself more clearly.

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]


This is clearly not true.


Not a death camp though. This thread is about death camps.

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]


I don't think I knew about that. 🤔


LOL


It's low in the Holy Cross voivodeship in general and young people have been escaping Kielce for years (I don't know if that changed):

o2.pl/biznes/zarobki-w-polsce-opublikowano-ranking-wojewodztw-6707511319759616a

Weirdly enough, Kielce is one of the happiest cities in Poland:

sukces.rp.pl/spoleczenstwo/art38767021-gdzie-w-polsce-mieszkaja-najszczesliwsi-ludzie-wcale-nie-w-warszawie

Kielce does have a nice location, I have to admit :) And life is calm and slow here.

News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]


No, you didn't stop there. You wrote more than that:


So, you were not only speaking for the whole of Poland, but you also lied.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Would you mind telling us how? 🤔

News / Russian agents plan sabotage acts in Poland??? [74]


Well, I don't know about that... For example, when oil prices went up due to sanctions that were put on RuSSia, the US wanted Saudi Arabia to increase their oil production in order to lower oil prices, but the Saudis didn't agree. I'm not sure if I remember right, but I think they even decreased their production and prices went up even more. As a result the US had to tap into their own reserves, I think. 🤔

So, Saudi Arabia stood up to the US and nothing happened. They're still not getting invaded :P :))


Now, now, you won't tell me that RuSSia wouldn't like to be treated the way it's treating other countries, will you :))))

Of course, to some extent I kind of used Novichok's and RuSSia's way of reasoning/rhetoric against them: "Why can't you just be friends with RuSSia??? Why won't you simply do what RuSSia tells you to do???? Then we all could be friends*!" :D

*It doesn't mean that RuSSia won't invade you if it's going to be in RuSSia's interest, but... why not be friends in the meantime! :D ;D

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What I wrote is the reality though - nuclear powers don't get attacked by other countries and if you're not hostile towards the US the likelihood of being invaded by them equals pretty much zero.

News / Russian agents plan sabotage acts in Poland??? [74]


So?


So?

None of this changes the fact that RuSSia is a nuclear superpower and nuclear superpowers don't get attacked by others countries. That's the experience, that's the pattern - those are facts.


From RuSSian perspective it doesn't matter if Iraq was a threat or not, but that it was weak. The Soviet Union was and RuSSia is potentially a far greater threat to the US than Iraq was and ever will be. And yet the Soviet Union and RuSSia were never attacked by the US or NATO. So, yes, it's clearly enough to be strong enough (or simply to have lots of nukes, which RuSSia does have) in order to not get attacked by the US.

There are other ways besides having nukes in order not to get attacked by the US, of course. The Saudi Arabia, for example, is swimming in oil and yet the US didn't invade it, even though they could swipe that country from the face of the Earth. Why? Because both countries have good relations.

Don't want to get invaded by the US? Then be friends with the US and the West. Simple :)