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Joined: 26 Jan 2010 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 14 Feb 2013
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skibum   
21 Aug 2010
Life / Polish Wedding March & Funny Hat [37]

Have a look here for a tongue in cheek view of a Polish wedding

Polish Wedding

or here for an alternative

Teetotal Polish Wedding
skibum   
19 Aug 2010
Travel / Beware GTI Travel in Poland [2]

They have a little scam they pull to get last minute holiday bookings.

They alter the rating of a hotel from 3 to 5 stars on the screens seen by travel agents. When they've got a few bookings they change it back again.

The agent contacts the client and says they can cancel, but by then it's usually too late to rebook somewhere else.

GTI then refuse to recompense the client claiming that they should have looked at their brochure or website for the correct details instead of relying on the Travel agents information.

Beware GTI Travel
skibum   
27 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / British Equivalents to Matura Results [30]

MATURA is closer to Scottish Revised Higher Grades or England's A-Grades.

You mean levels not grades.

The Matura is the equivalent of English A-Levels.

Have a look at Wiki to see what grades mean in terms of points.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCE_Advanced_Level
skibum   
22 Jun 2010
Travel / Changing money in Poland [15]

Those days are gone. " big differences " ? ...... I don,t think so.

The Hitman, how wrong can you be, In Krakow for example there is always as much as 10% difference between the good and bad Kantors.

I don't understand why people still use kantors. Taking money out of machines gives you a decent rate. Perhaps I'm just with a reasonable bank....

Why wouldn't you use Kantors, they give you the best rates at zero commission?

I even use them for large transactions, bringing cash from UK and changing at a Kantor, always gives me an even better rate than using any of the main Forex companies.
skibum   
21 Jun 2010
Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [70]

Actually by 30 Americans.

Polish vodka was 2nd, Swedish 3rd.
sfspiritscomp.com/pdfs/2010SpiritsResultsbyClass.pdf
skibum   
21 Jun 2010
Travel / Changing money in Poland [15]

The Kantors are the best rates in the cities, but shop around as there can be big differences.

See the blog about Money
skibum   
21 Jun 2010
Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [70]

Polish vodka is the best in the world nowadays. I respect my russian brothers but it's true.

Sevcio, haven't you been reading? English Vodka is officially the best in the world at the moment. English Vodka, best in world.
skibum   
19 Jun 2010
History / What are the key features of the Polish Eagle? [56]

I tried checking this and this is what wiki says: This emblem was conceived during the Bolshevik Revolution. Do you something different?

Why let the truth get in the way of a good legend about the White Eagle of Poland.
skibum   
19 Jun 2010
Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [70]

The judges must have been korrupted!!!

I doubt I'll ever find out how good Chase Vodka is, it's ridiculously expensive.
skibum   
18 Jun 2010
Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [70]

But English Vodka is the best in the world this year.

cracowtours.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/english-vodka-best-in-the-wo rld

Chase Vodka
skibum   
27 May 2010
Travel / Gaelic football Krakow [15]

Did you ask them to put it on?

Maurice, Dave or Asha will always put on what you want, unless the pub is packed with people watching something special.

They always put the rugby on when I ask.
skibum   
25 May 2010
Real Estate / Making an offer for Polish houses [30]

PLK

I'll try to explain in words of few syllables so you can understand.

If a seller sets a reserve at auction and it doesn't sell then that is probably not the market value, because if it were it would have sold.
skibum   
24 May 2010
Real Estate / Making an offer for Polish houses [30]

Avalon I understand it all, it's a shame the same cannot be said of you. I agree with the post you've just highlighted, it's you that disagreed, but then proceeded to disprove your own arguement.
skibum   
24 May 2010
Real Estate / Making an offer for Polish houses [30]

No, the point being that if the buyer dictated the price, they would have sold everything.

Not if the seller sets a reserve
skibum   
24 May 2010
Real Estate / Making an offer for Polish houses [30]

If this were true, why, at the first property auction in Warsaw last year, out of 27 lots, only 7 were sold. The rest failed to reach the reserve price and there were 300 potential buyers bidding.

Haven't you just disproven your own point. This is an example of the buyer setting the market value, The seller set it too high so he didn't sell, when he reduces the reserve maybe he will.
skibum   
23 May 2010
Real Estate / Making an offer for Polish houses [30]

I know there could be a wide range of answers to this but here goes..

What would you consider to be the amount wanted compared to the amount asked for houses in Poland?

For example would an offer of 75% of the asking price be reasonable or an insult?
skibum   
23 May 2010
History / Question about Warsaw Ghetto (shared building?) and Monument [29]

From another forum, can anyone help?

I hope someone knows the answer to this. Was there a building shared between the Warsaw ghetto and the non-ghetto side? I researched this and one source said there was 1 building. Anyone know which one it is? And have a picture of it?

skibum   
15 May 2010
Law / May 14th -- Big Day on the markets [21]

Greece dragged the zloty down, and the £ grew stronger. The high was 5.0018zl to the £ on Fri 7th, when the early results were coming in from the UK election, then as the results started to turn to indicate a hung parliament the £ lost value, and continued to lose whilst the parties negotiated a government losing over 10% from the high, the pound strengthened slightly as the coalition government was announced but this coincided with a bail out for the Greeks so not much effect. Now the effect is coming through and we may get back up to 4.8zl to the £ or even higher, at least for a little while.
skibum   
21 Apr 2010
News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]

"I had been here 15 minutes when I saw the plane flying low, and I saw something serious was going on. It was cutting, cutting trees. Then over there, there was a big noise. Boom! Like a bomb."

Doh!!!

The wings hit the trees, The wings store the fuel, what a surprise there was an explosion.

Bomb my arse.
skibum   
17 Mar 2010
Law / Buying 2nd hand cars - UK or Poland [7]

Thanks DNZ certainly some good looking deals on there, even with the shipping.

Have you done it yourself?

Are there any hidden costs?