UK, Ireland / Best Digital Banks in Poland (main account is in the UK) [12]

depends wether you want to set up a real bank account or the 'digital' ones. if the latter suggest you go with transferwise. gives you a virtual polish bank a/c and a debit card. prob sign up with your u.k details as they are based there. For a real bank account depends on your needs but nest bank is the best for fee free.

the beuty of transferwise is that it will give you the spot rate for foreign currency conversation and not the sometimes dodgy bank rate.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2223]

what happened to your crackpot fantasy about gowin being marszałek and becoming president Delpho? ahh now i see you have a new one that duda is loosing popularity, pull the other one guv! look at your candidiate ms Kidowa-Botox ratings! rumour is PO is going to drop her like a used tampon. but keep dreaming your PO fantasies! Looks like we are going to have voting in Polonia thanks to the new deal so our vote will easily out number a few bitter polish hating scots and assorted from GB

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2223]

the idea of Polish people accepting a one party state again is as ludicrous as the idea of Scotish people being competent enough to manage an independent country. When PiS lose popular support theyll be voted out, unf for you its another 4 years at least to grind and nash your teeth all u PO people can say is ughh ahh totalitiarnism! just today the german court gave the ECB and ECJ the middle finger, looks like it's o.k in a democracy! don't worry zandberg will grow up one day and become a jewish populist.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2223]

considering you were the one that had intimate knowledge of far-left/anarchist squats in warsaw and gave me the second degree when i said i visited one, i now surmise you are not in fact a PO supporter but really a SLD/Razem/Etc supporter but have not cottoned on to the fact the concept of total oppositon is over. poor delph always two steps and two thoughts behind.

UK, Ireland / Best Digital Banks in Poland (main account is in the UK) [12]

yes transferwise add a .05 percent fee to the spot rate true, ill take your word for it that worldfirst does not do this but if its the spot rate how do they make money? the innovative element with transferwise is one gets a virtual bank account in 5 or so countries, (including poland) meaning that other people can send you money around the world , instead of using ripoff paypal or Western Union. . ie you have someone in the germany that wants to send you euros they just transfer it to your euro account and then you chuck into your polish transferwise acount then onto a real polish bank account or use the debit card. its complicated but brilliant. the founder was one of the original developers of skype so i reckon theyre cool

UK, Ireland / Best Digital Banks in Poland (main account is in the UK) [12]

so you are saying jon your bank charges you 9.50 to put your money from worldfirst account, sounds like a scam? because transferwise gives you a PLN account unlike worldfirst its an intra country transfer with a very small fee . to the OP i don't know about the u.k but in australia many bank accounts here have a no currency conversion fee and a no international atm fee. If you are only here for a few months it could be just as easy having a u.k account/card with those features and just using the mastercard currency rate (better than visa) to do the pln-pound conversions when you pay for stuff.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2223]

And this right here, ladies and gents puts paid to the PRL, one party state malarkey. You should have embelished your story to give your angle some cred. If PiS = PRL you boss would have been pressured to fire you, tax dept on your case, random pull over by the police etc. instead nothing! prob one of the above would have happened in the 2000s with PO and oligarch mates in charge. or u really pissed them off u would have joined the serial suicide club.

Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]

what about polish police using sniffer dogs on arrival of international trains? known to happen? seems like low hanging fruit esp for czech trains etc