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Hospitality, Scenery, Food, Clean Streets: My POSITIVE experiences in Poland (!) [39]
It's not often I write on this site...in fact I think this is my first, but as I'm going to marry a beautiful Polish woman in 3 days I thought I ought to contribute to this thread. I've been coming to Poland about 4 times a year for 3 years now, and always enjoy it. I stay at my girlfriends family farm which is always lovely and quiet...something rarely achieved where I live in England. The roads certainly keep me awake when I'm driving (a bit rough in places) , although they are slowly improving.
The countryside is absolutely beautiful, although in some places it is let down by run down abandoned houses. (However, I think that this is to be expected after god knows how many years of communist rule).
The people on the whole are friendly, although Poland does seem to have more than its fair share of people who don't like to wait and constantly just push their way to the front of any queue, be it in a supermarket or out on the roads.
The women are generally very slim and pretty and when I first came out here I was told "you won't know which way to look", and they weren't wrong. TV and microwave dinners can't be found for love nor money, but I fear that this will change and Poland will end up like England. England where the kids can't cook anything beyond "piercing the lid and popping whatever into the microwave for 8 minutes", England where a certain percentage think that lamb and chicken comes from Tesco's, and England where an unfortunately large (and ever increasing) percentage of people are overweight. I pray that Poland stays with tradditional cooking where eating together is a large part of family life.
