Food / Best Restaurant in Warsaw [23]


Certainly the cream of the crop for the culinary connoisseurs but maybe lacks the ambiance for a Christmas dinner, it's not cheap either by any standards. 1000zl for 2 with their 5 moments menu, a glass of champagne and the vodka taster menu instead of wine. I dared not even look at the wine list.

I would suggest Ale Gloria next to the Sheraton.
alegloria.pl

Travel / Great places to ski in Poland [16]

I've skied in Zakopane and Szczyrk and wouldn't go back. They're certainly cheaper resorts than Austria/Italy/France etc but the lifts are ancient, the trails are limited, overcrowded and in poor condition, there's massive long queues to buy lift passes and people queue jumping for lifts is the norm. I always remember going to Nosal in Zakopane and asking for a piste map, the girl took one look at the small trail up the mountain we could see and said 'that's it!'.

Travel / Need advice for a tour of eastern Poland [22]


there's an interesting Russian war cemetery in Wlodawa worth a look at if you're passing, can't find anything about it online, I came across it by accident. It's here alongside some old fortiments.

maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=wlodawa,+poland&ie=UTF8&ll=51.565603,23.562906&spn=0.001951,0.003449&hnear=W%C5%82odawa,+Poland&gl=uk&t=h&z=18

Travel / Polish or British passport (child traveling to Poland) [51]


I think Sally is correct, it required the mother and father's signature when I applied for a child's one last year.

Travel / Polish or British passport (child traveling to Poland) [51]

A British passport for an infant is valid for 5 years, a Polish one only one year so far better to get a British one. Also it's far easier to travel the world on a British passport than a Polish one (visa requirements).

Travel / What is the cheapest way to get from Modlin airport to Warsaw? [106]

Only the Ele and Sawa taxi companies have official aggreements to use Modlin - article here. Other taxi companies have to drop/pickup further away from the terminal I guess.

Travel / What is the cheapest way to get from Modlin airport to Warsaw? [106]

The cheapest way is the Modlin bus as suggested above - 33zl / £7

USA, Canada / Warsaw or New York? Where to work, raise a family, etc... [14]

you might be able to land a job in one of the international schools here for a reasonable wage (by Polish standards) but otherwise there are not too many opportunities for unskilled non Polish speakers in Poland. There's not too much to do over here either, it's a religious holiday here on Wednesday (everything closed) and do you think I can think of anywhere original to go or do for the day......?

It's a no brainer for me - stay in New York.

Law / How long takes a bank transfer in Poland? [12]


Between accounts of the same bank should be instant or almost instant (depends on which bank and what software they use). Might not always be the case though for transfers between savings/loan accounts to a current account though (again depends on the bank).

Between different banks can be within the same day but again depends on which bank and what time of day you execute the transfer and what currency. It all depends on how often per day a bank applies to its accounts the clearing files of transfers they receive from ELIXIR. Some banks apply these payments multiple times during the day and some just once.

There's a legal requirement for Direct Debit payment requests to be sent from one bank to another and the receiving bank to send a rejection back ( if non sufficient funds) all within the same day. So you can see from this that all banks must be able to transfer funds to another bank within one day.

p.m me for more details.

News / Warsaw Modlin Airport is finally moving [29]

outside rush hour it's about 40 mins to get there by car from central Warsaw, I'm driving the road often to get to the golf course up there. There's also a flyover being built in Lomianki at one particularly bad set of traffic lights, that should help the flow of traffic a little back into Warsaw.

Food / Polish bacon doesn't fry up? [70]


you can buy it [irishshop.pl/go/_info/?id=293] (Warsaw area)

Study / Learning Polish in Warsaw - good school recommendation? [47]

I used this place: Centre for Polish Language
cjp.pl

Real Estate / Tenancy tribunal or similar Poland office, to resolve dispute with landlord? [7]


I'm not aware off such an office in Poland. There's a good chance your landlord is not declaring the rent as income so you could suggest you'll report him to the tax office and this might help solve your disagreement.

News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]

This is what Poland has go to look forward to:

Fracking company - we caused 50 earth tremors in Blackpool:

independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/exclusive-fracking-company--we-caused-50-tremors-in-blackpool--but-were-not-going-to-stop-6256397.html

Real Estate / Who designs houses in Poland? [66]

is it just me or isn't there an over the top fascination with having pillars when a building a house in Poland ?

Life / Do you have water coming out from sink in yellow, red or brown color in Ursynow/Warsaw? [11]

it's just dirt from what I can see, it doesn't smell and the water is used regularly so hasn't been sitting in the pipes for ages and it's a modern building. I'm intrigued that's it always the hot water, are there different source mains supplies for hot and cold in Warsaw? I've been here for years and it happens all the time, the locals just seem to accept it.

Life / Do you have water coming out from sink in yellow, red or brown color in Ursynow/Warsaw? [11]

Yes, seems a common problem in Warsaw with the hot water, the last week or too seems to have been particularly bad.

News / New budget airport for Warsaw to open in 2012 [16]

yes it's not going to be easy to get to from Warsaw (particularly at rush hour) until there's a rail connection. Also arriving on a Sunday evening at Modlin and trying to get into Warsaw by bus/car would be a nightmare with the returning traffic from the weekend, the traffic can be backed up to Lomianki or further on holidays.

News / New budget airport for Warsaw to open in 2012 [16]

looks like Ryanair are quite interested in using Modlin as a new base, due date for the airport opening is now June 2012.

UK, Ireland / Getting the most from my hard earned money (transfer money from England to Poland) [41]


I use kantor-polres.pl near the Sobieski Hotel, looks an even tighter spread than your one.

Travel / The best way to get to the airport in Łódź from Warsaw? [15]

Warszawa Centralna to £ódź Fabryczna is about 1:45 - 2hrs by train looking at today's schedule, and then say another 20-30 mins to get to the airport by taxi. You can search train times: rozklad-pkp.pl/?q=en/node/143

Travel / The best way to get to the airport in Łódź from Warsaw? [15]

take a train to Lodz then get a taxi to the airport, more info here on the airport website

Travel / DRIVING TO POLAND THIS THURSDAY ANY TIPS? [35]


you seem to be just emphasising my point, it wont be obvious to them at all what the speed limit is. It may be to you as you seem to read the Polish highway code each evening and drive here regularly but it's not to a stranger. Why they can't have an explicit speed limit sign to remind you at least every few km's is beyond me, would probably help road safety too. Even the signs to signal a town or motorway are not actual speed limit signs, they're pictures - great, more guessing, what a help!

Travel / DRIVING TO POLAND THIS THURSDAY ANY TIPS? [35]


do you actually drive here? Bear in mind this thread is for a stranger driving in Poland. As there are very few speed limit signs when driving in Poland I think they'll be guessing quite a lot.

Life / Are Polish people so chaotic and disorganized like Germans say? [89]

the best example I always came across was playing them at 5 aside football, as soon as they were losing then the players just seemed to give up and start arguing with each other rather than fight back as a team.

Life / Are Polish people so chaotic and disorganized like Germans say? [89]


sure there are individual cases that are both, but generally it's not in a Poles nature to be helpful to each other, so when it comes to being organised as a group of people is when the failure seems to occur in Poland.

Travel / DRIVING TO POLAND THIS THURSDAY ANY TIPS? [35]


you're kidding yes ? I'm sorry but the majority of the time you have to guess or try and interpret what the limit is from the kind of road you're on.

Travel / I'm visiting Wroclaw - can you recommend some where special the eat ? [5]

not sure where 'Warclaw' is mate ?

Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]

was it just me or do other Polish girls/wives demand to know exactly how many females you'd slept with before meeting her? And then go ballistic if the answer was too high.....

UK, Ireland / Grateful Polish photographer stitches up his Welsh hosts [96]


to be fair Harry it would be hard to take such pictures in Poland, how often do you see a lady here drunk in public - rarely in my experience and I've been here 9 years now. Personally I love the drinking culture in Poland compared to the UK.