Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [554]

I realise this topic is about penpals, but I started a new thread with the above statement and guess that an admin has merged it into this one.

Thanks for asking anyway, much appreciated.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [554]

Merged: Any British people or groups around Legnica/Jawor?

I was just wondering if there were any British people or groups living or meeting in or around the Legnica / Jawor area of Poland?

My wife is Polish and we come to Poland 3 or 4 times a year for around 11 days at a time. Although I am trying to learn Polish, conversation with most Polish people is difficult to say the least. I would be interested in meeting up with any British people living in or around this area to just relax and talk about experiences or best places to go etc.

Cheers

Law / Opening a Polish Bank Account by a foreigner in Poland. Recommendations. [299]

My girlfriend and I opened an account with PKO BP. It took us over an hour and loads of paperwork, even though she had a permenant address to send all the documents to. They wouldn't let her translate everything to me inside the bank saying that she could do that "when we got home". As a result we ended up getting charged for everything under the sun as they tried to rush my girlfriend into signing up. 4 months later when we finally got back to Poland on our next visit, we went to PKO BP, closed the accounts and transferred them to BGZ. Much friendlier service, (this is very important to me), and charge a lot less.

ps. BGZ is quite modern in atmosphere too. PKO BP came across as very "stuffy" and tried to give the impression that we should be grateful for them taking our money.