Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [9]

there is a Polish one about a beetle making a sound in the grass....?

Travel / Hard Candy - Krakow, Poland - reviews? [131]

Good work Maarten...get this place shut down...

Travel / Hard Candy - Krakow, Poland - reviews? [131]

Sounds to me like it needs a bunch of big guys to go in there and smash the place to pieces...

Why don,t the town council close the dam place down , or are they getting some dosh from the place..?

This bar is spoiling the reputation of a fine city..it needs to be sorted...

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


Thanks for your good wishes..My Russian lady is pretty streetwise , having lived in Moscow all her life , and i have lived long enough to know a con man when i see one..

I am sure we will be fine...

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


It seems this farm has some darkness about it...something that wants to make me sleep and not make progress , my Russian lady can feel it , and is happy i decided to leave the place for a while to go to her in Russia..

Ksusha has Gypsy blood in her , and can see and feel things beyond the normal , she always asks me how i am when we chat on skype , but its only being polite , she knows exactly how i am without me telling her...

When we met in Kiev i took with me a box of photo albums , the wooden box was from my farm , and she could could sense some darkness something way back in history that made the place very sad , its not anything evil , just sad...

It would be easy to dismiss what she feels as rubbish , but she has so often told me things that she could not have known unless she has some kind of gift....

On the plus side , it seems i shall have a long and happy life in the future...

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


Aha..chances are i have sampled them then...

When i was in Ukraine both times i made a point of eating and drinking only the local stuff...

Last time i was in Tarnopil i had some really really nice beer , but can,t remember what it was called...

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


I don,t know what that is..but Ukrainian beer and vodka is very nice...

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


Thats a point...if the Russian beer is really that bad , i am gonna miss my Warka mochna...!

I don,t drink vodka that often , but the Polish stuff is for sure better than the Russian...mind you..i ain,t tried all brands of it yet..[

quote=McCoy]if you ever need some help [/quote]

There are a lot of real nice looking women over there , a lot are spoilt gold diggers but my lady is not , and there are bound to be others...!!!

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


Never say never my friend...Moscow is not that far away , i am even thinking about driving my Maluch there , only thing that deters me is the crazy Russian drivers in big fast cars...

Of course , if you ever happen to be in Russia i will be happy to have you come over for a beer or three... I am told by a Russian friend that Russian beer is not very good though...

Thank you for your good wishes...if you don,t hear from me again , then you will know that Englishman of my age can,t keep up with the demands of a Russian nymph...

Language / Do Poles prefer US American or UK English language? [147]


Boot...trunk , but in Uk a trunk is an elephants nose , over the engine is a bonnet , which of course in the USA is a hood , now a hood in the UK is something that goes over your head , much like a bonnet would in the USA... A bum is something we sit on in the UK , but of course in the USA a bum is a homeless person , they sit on their ass which of course to us Brits is a donkey type thing ..An ass is sometimes known in the USA as a fanny , which is something very different to us Brits...A tramp in the UK is a homeless person , a USA bum , but of course a tramp in the USA is a woman of low morals....

Are we getting the hang of this yet....????

Travel / Looking for a good map of Poland on the Net [19]

bing.com/maps/

This is the page i use...the best one i found so far...

UK, Ireland / Not Gay: Making Friends With Polish Men In The UK. [17]

Could it be that the Polish males are a little bit jealous of your friendship with nice looking Polish girls...????

Polish people are not the most tolerant of other cultures , and if these guys are from the countryside , they have probably never seen anyone with non white skin.....

If you walked through my local village you would get the same reaction as you would if you stepped out of a UFO...and were green...!

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]

there is no doubt i will be.... i will be marrying her in Moscow....

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


I think you mean plus 45 degrees....and with choking smoke...!

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


dammit...now you caused me to have coffee all over my keyboard and screen....!

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


Its a great idea....

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


I ain,t going untill next march....and i ain,t selling the place yet....

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]

Yes , it really was that bad...it was 40 degrees at night not so long back , my girlfriend was trying to sleep with a wet towel over her...

Thankfully the tempreture has now dropped , and they have been smoke free for three days now....

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


I am not actually in Moscow yet , i am still on my farm in Poland , it now looks like i am going to move to an apartment in Krasnogorsk , near Moscow centre in march next year , then we hope to move into the new house by the side of Lake Plescheevo in May...

Plescheevo is about 140 kms north west of Moscow centre... You must let me know if you are heading to Moscow some day , my lady has lived all her life there , so would be a great guide , and you could chill out at our house by the lake when the city gets too much...

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]

Not as far as i am aware...my family has a bit of Irish and Scottish blood , and if you go back far enough , some German....but no Russian...

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


So..have you secured your lifetime supply of salt yet....?

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [246]

I might do that...i have some nice pictures of Polish wildlife...

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


Sad news...may their wings carry them to a better place....


My back up plan is...to cry lots and be broken hearted..!

Have no fear , this is going to work...we are both prepared to commit everything to it , and we are not going to give up on each other , no matter what happens...

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]

Looks like you got a date already Deano...!!!

The wildrover dating agency is open for business....!!

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


Well she is single , has her own house in Malachovka Moscow , is an expert in loads of languages including English , and if her mum is anything to go by , rather attractive....At the moment she is writing a book on the history of Malachovka for the government there...

Email me a pic , and some details , and i will pass them on...you never know....???

Her mum says she is a bit strange , but i don,t know what she means by that..?

Life / Electricity in Poland: plug and voltage? [73]


Unlikely....the plug in the wall will either fall out , or the Polish wiring will melt...its normal...!

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]

Could it be due to him being a pilot ....People with access to aircraft tend to get about a bit more than us poor people with only a bycycle...!

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]


Yes , thats kinda what stole my heart when i first spoke to Ksusha on the phone , her Russian accent is the kind that makes your toes curl , and her soft and gentle ways along with her Russian soul made me decide she was the one for me....

Of course it would have been much more conveniant and cheaper to have fallen in love with one of the lovely Polish women i met , but love chooses its own path , and its not always the shortest or easiest one....

Making a new life with my lady in Russia will not be so easy , already our plans to be together this winter have had a setback , and it now looks like we have to wait untill spring , but nothing thats worth having in life comes easy , and we will hang in there untill we can be together....

I have no fear of Russia , or the challenge of making a life there , once we are in our home by the lake in a Russian forest , its not going to feel any different from my Polish home in the forest , apart from the fact i will be with somebody that cares about me , and who is a teacher of the language i need to learn to make a life there... My dear lady is now enrolled on a course at Moscow unversity to gain qualifications in teaching Russian to non Russians , just so she can better teach me the language....

Russia is quite different from Poland of course , but no more different then Poland was from the UK where i was born and spent most of my life , Poland was no great shock to my system , and i have no doubt i will adapt to Russian ways much more easily with the help of somebody who has lived all her life there... Russia has always held a great facination for me , the fear of the evil communists , the enemy i trained to fight against when in the military , grew into a desire to meet these strange people and discover if they really did have horns and a tail...! My chance came in 1997 when i found myself the leader and organisor of a convoy of Landrovers to Belarus to take aid to children , as well as drop my ex girlfriend off in Moscow where she was to teach English... During this trip i discovered the beauty of Russia , and the kindness of its people , i went back the following year with another convoy...It was during this trip i fell in Love with Poland , and later bought this farm here....

Long ago , i stood on the Berlin wall , looking at the enemy over the other side...If you had told me then that one day i would be living the wrong side of this wall , and marrying a Russian and living there , i would have said you were out of your mind , but the world has changed so much since those days , mostly due to a bunch of brave Poles who were willing to risk everything for their countries freedom....I can understand those Poles who think i am crazy to want to go to Russia , and that the Russians are not to be trusted...

Russia did not exactly do Poland any favours in the past , but this was due to the system , not the Russian people , they after all suffered from it too...For those of you who have never met any Russians i can promise you they are no different from any other humans...As the song goes...the Russians love their children too...

I shall miss Poland very much , very much more than i miss the UK in fact , i have made some very special friends here , and they alone will cause me to return here...It was here in Poland that i learnt country ways , and grew to love the quiet peace of the forest and the wildlife and nature , i can never be a city boy again , although i shall be residing in Moscow center for a while untill we move to the house by the lake in the summer...

If any of you are brave enough to meet the scarey Russians you will be welcome to visit us in Russia , our house will have room for guests , and you can experiance the wildlife of the Russian forests as well as the wild life in Moscow....

I will keep you all enthralled with tales of life in the Federation and you can be sure i will be back in Poland with my Russian wife some day soon , she has never been to Poland , in fact never been outside of Russia , other than to the Ukraine so that will be an adventure for her too... watch this space...!!!!

Thank you to all of you that have posted such nice words on here...you will not be forgotton...

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]

I have no idea what that is...?

The hovercraft funny is from a Monty python sketch about a Romanian phrasebook....i thought it would be fun to learn to say it in Polish...Somebody else must have thought so , and now there is a translation page into every known language of the phrase...

Love / WILDROVERS FIVE YEARS IN POLAND....come to an end...! [132]

HA.....for once there is no mention of beans in there....

it translates as.... MY HOVERCRAFT IS FULL OF EELS...

very usefull if you are stopped by Russian transit police....

In Polish its.....Mój poduszkowiec jest pełen węgorzy