USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]


The owner had bought the display from somewhere and put it up over the counter to make the place look pretty. In fact, the restaurant just served the usual awful Russian food. "Is only for beautiful" could be back translated as "This display is just to make the place look pretty. Do you want borsch or fish with dill?"

USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]


To tell the truth, I think I went to a Mac Shack, where Russians were still filming each other eating (the days of having wedding receptions there were, I think, over by then).

Travel / Lublin ruined by arrival of Ryanair [33]


A brother of mine recently stayed at a hotel in Chester, in the UK, and was very pleasantly surprised that a beer cost him only 2.50GBP. He said that in, e.g. a trendy London pub you can pay as much as 5.00GBP for a pint of Stella Artois.

Perhaps this is one reason why some silly boys misbehave when abroad. There's also the tradition that everybody absolutely must get sh1t-faced on a stag night, wherever it is celebrated.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


The fact that this could have happened at all worries me. The fact that some are shrugging it off, and even accusing those of us who are worried of having dirty minds is even more worrying.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


You can be absolutely sure of that.

UK, Ireland / Polish Biker condemned over 103mph wheelie in the UK [15]


In Poland, too.
In one of his books Stephen Fry tells the story of a lady in Moorfield's eye hospital in London who is waiting for corneal grafts. Her consultant tells her that they don't have any at the moment but becomes more optimistic when he looks out of the window and notices that it's raining. He was thinking of the certainty that one of the then many motorbike messengers would be along soon.

Food / Where can I buy lamb in Poland? [89]

Where do you live?

Food / Where can I buy lamb in Poland? [89]

Stand by for posts from Warsaw and Poznan.
It's not easy to find fresh lamb here. In the larger towns and cities you might be able to find some frozen lamb in the bigger supermarkets and hypermarkets. There's some in my local Makro. Not cheap.

I was very lucky to be able to buy half a freshly killed lamb a while ago from my neighbour. It had grown up about ten metres away from my gate.

Occasionally you can find some mutton at the butchers, but it's not a regular item on sale.
Good luck.

Lidl had some frozen cutlets a month or two ago. (German week?)

Food / Where can I buy lamb in Poland? [89]


Got any details?

Food / Where can I buy lamb in Poland? [89]

Thanks very much, Harry.

Food / Where can I buy lamb in Poland? [89]


Bangers tonight then.

Law / Fags going up 60 groszy [13]


That's what I thought all my life, and of course it's true, but I've just finished reading Bound For Glory by Woody Guthrie, where I found, in chapter thirteen,

'"Schwartz, my name. Goddam this bull tobaccer!"
I told the other three men, "Believe I'll roll me one of them fags, if ya don't mind, an' then go out on top an' watch the tourists go past." '

btw Polonius, you use British English spelling (sort of) and British expressions. What's your UK angle?

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


Still feel like defending this, goofy?

Law / Fags going up 60 groszy [13]


They were in a freight train box car.