Life / How Safe Are the Polish Cities? [179]

Cities are the same all over the world...trust me , i have been to many , there are parts of the city where its qute safe , and parts where its best not go alone at night...Think of your own city where you live , there are parts where you would tell a stranger not to go , and nice area,s too....I find its always best to get hold of a native that lives there and go on their advice , failuing that , just try not to look like a lost tourist....

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

Well i tried to post some of my one million pics of Polish wildlife , but i don,t seem to be able to shrink my pics down to a size the forum will accept...so sorry folks , you will just have to imagine all the deer , boars , insects and stuff running around my garden...maybe in the summer you can all come round and see em for yourself....

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]


That last pic looks like the sucker that nearly took my eye out..!

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]


sounds like an idea....i am a bit of a muppet when it comes to computers...but i will give it a go...thanks...

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]


no problem..you will be welcome...i have a place for a camp fire in the garden....a nearbye piwo shop...and a place to buy polish bread and sausage....what else do we need...?

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

I have a bit of land , and plenty of places under cover if it rains...its a bit basic my place , not a lot of repairs done since the second war , but its home...I can,t play anything myself , but i have a few friends who play guitar , in fact one or two with their own bands , rock and blues stuff...As for animals , if you creep about in the early morning , and at dusk when they are roaming about feeding there is every chance of seeing deer and wild boar...i have a friend near by that has a pet boar , and another with her own herd of deer......I should wait till it gets a bit warmer tho , its a wee bit cold in a tent right now....

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

I don,t know of any animals that migrate to Poland just for the winter , but i imagine some must do...Of course most of the summer animals are still here , apart from the birds which have the option of flying somewhere warmer , not bird brained are they..? I keep meaning to set up a bird feeding place somewhere on the farm , so i can watch them from my window , its a matter of placing it somewhere where the birds can feed in peace without one of my ten cats biting their heads off....Does anyone know how common tree frogs are in Poland..? I get tons of the normal kind , but last year i found a bright green critter that i am sure was a tree frog , didn,t know they had em in Polska...

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]


Err similar i think..but my fella was much brighter green...kinda like a Kawasaki race team green if you know what that is....and he was all green , no black stripe.....Moles yep , got plenty of them in the garden , although the cats thin them down now and then....Mice are a bit scarce around the farm , but thankfully the cats don,t seem to catch any birds , i suppose the mice are easier to catch...

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

my frog....hopefully a picture..?

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Life / Why do people think that I'm Polish ? [92]

Some Russian girl told me the other day i looked Asian....blimey..nobody ever told me that before....i am 100% white Yorkshireman....i think she had been on the vodka....?

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

Thanks...been trying long enough...might have a go at some of my other wildlife pics now....

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

A toad.....maybe...

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Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]


Big enough to fill the palm of my hand....critters seem to grow bigger in Polska...is it better food...or the effects of Chernobyl...?

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

Frogs and newts burrow in the ground i believe...in autumn

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

i get lots of newts here..as well as some strange ones that are almost black...and of course lots of sand lizards....the cats like to chase them till the tail falls off and remains wriggling while the lizard escapes....

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

just under the surface of the soil in this area its sand....various colours of lizards around these parts....i shall shrink some pics and put em up....

Travel / Polish Architecture [147]


If you come to my place i have a book in Polish all about Polish buildings...it was presented to me by head of childrens foundation...some very nice pics in it....its called ...Polska piekno architektury..by Agnieszka and Wlodek bilinscy....oh and its in English text too...

Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

hopefully this is a pic of a Polish lizard..? pretty colour ain,t he there are also the normal light brown ones...

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Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]


That would be what we in the UK call a slow worm...looks like a snake , but is in fact a legless lizard Here is some news about bison...i posted this on the bison thread too....

Poland's bison hunkering down for winter

Created: 07.01.2009 12:11
Five hundred tonnes of hay and beets have been prepared for the winter months by employees of the Bialowieski National Park (BPN) to feed Poland's precious bison herd maintained there.

The director of the bison care facility at BPN, Jerzy Dackiewicz, claims that the recent drastic fall in temperatures means that the stocked food will be all the more necessary. The park has been feeding the bison throughout the winter months at a special feeding grounds for several years.

"If it is a light winter, we still prepare the food, but they prefer to graze naturally out in the fields and forest on grass and young trees," added Dackiewicz.

Park employees also intend to count the herd of endangered bison this year. If such weather - cold and frost - remains, then the herd will be fully counted in two weeks and results will be announced at the end of January. Current bison-count is approximately 450 animals.

The Bialowieska National Park is an internationally recognised protected area for this breed of bison. In the year 1929, the facilities for maintaining a herd of the endangered species were opened and the herd was started with only three bison. The park extends across the Polish border into Belarus

History / Polish weapons and militaria - got any? [153]

Looks to me like a German bayonet....

History / Polish weapons and militaria - got any? [153]


It is indeed......

Life / Cost of converting cars in Poland to left-hand drive [58]

The cost depends a lot on what car you have....some cars are very easy to convert from right hand drive to left hand drive , many have all the connections on the steering for both left and right hand drive if that model is exported to countries using both systems....As for sombody to do the conversion , you will have to ask around in your local area...More and more cars are being brought into Polska from the UK , so there are bound to be more people doing the conversion...best of luck...

Life / Cost of converting cars in Poland to left-hand drive [58]

I tried driving on the left when i first came to Poland , hoping the locals would copy the idea , but after a few near accidents and lots of light flashing i gave up and drove on the right....

News / Original cars manufactured in Poland [64]

Amazing little car....not seen any on the roads of Poland though...

News / Original cars manufactured in Poland [64]


Another classic car....seen a few of them on the road here....

Travel / Entering Poland from Germany on the A4 motorway [23]

I reccomend you drive over the border from Poland into Ukraine , very soon , like me you will think the roads of Poland are absolutly wonderfull compared the the pot holed rutted death traps of Ukraine....

Life / If I could introduce something from my country into Poland, I would.... [175]


intoduce british electrical sockets and plugs , ones that don,t fall out of the wall , or melt if you put any power through them......

Travel / Motorcycle tour of Poland [137]

If you manage to sort out a bike , and you find yourself in the Drawski national park area you can drop by my place and stay for free...I am an English Harley owner living on my own farm in the forest...come and have a beer and a barbie at my place....

Travel / Motorcycle tour of Poland [137]


No , i bought the bike in UK , and rode it to Poland , well apart from the wet bit between UK and Holland , quite a nice ride actually...

Its sad that Harley have lost sales , and are laying people off , but i guess the recession affects everybody....I am sure the factory will survive , they have been through trauma before , and they will get through this one too....Maybe if things get worse people will start buying fuel efficient Harleys instead of thirsty cars....?

Travel / Motorcycle tour of Poland [137]


Now there is another bike i would love to have in my collection...i well remember watching Agostini thundering around the race track in my home town of Scarborough on an MV....awesome....

The ride to Poland on the Harley was quite easy really , compared to the ride in to Ukraine on it....really lethal roads there , but the people and the cops were friendly enough , and the food and beer very nice.....