Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

There is definitively a lot of nice beers in Poland. Since the day I arrived over 7 years ago to nowadays, so many things has changed. Pinta is a great Browar, AleBrowar too. I like Amber Beers even if they are more "normal".

As I love White Beers, the Pinta one was the best one I ever tried for ages.

There is a new one in Torun as well. Olimp. Looks promising.

And plenty more micro-brewery. Or pubs that brew their own beers.

Actually, if you want to try a good beer, it's kinda expensive compared to the mainstream ones. But the pleasure and the experience is way better.

It's great to live in Poland right now as they experiment a lot. But as I grew up drinking Belgium beers, they lack something here sometimes. Everybody is trying to make IPA or Polish IPA or American IPA. It's IPA all the way. There is more diversity in Belgium. More subtle taste.

I hope that they will diversify their offer a bit more - except Pinta that has a lot of different type of beers.

I find the mainstream beers boring, tasteless and difficult to drink. If I had to choose one brand of the big sellers, it would be Okocim.

I like Ciechan as well, normal beers. I don't know if we can consider them as a big brewery. May be they are like Amber.

Check out my website - atable.pl/atableblog/category/boissons/biere/ - I write about beers sometimes.

Life / Client of T-mobile having an iPhone 4 & iOS 7.1.2 - problem with connecting to the Poland's network [3]

Sorry, I should have closed that topic earlier. But I'm kinda very busy at work. Summer season :-(

Problem is solved. Infact someone at T-Mobile didn't follow my requests and just cut my internet contract few weeks ago. And I didn't know it because internet was still working. So they were charging me while I was surfing and while I shouldn't have.

In fact now, because of some employee who didn't do what I wanted, I have no more internet and a huge bill to pay...

It was as simple as that. Nothing wrong with the phone or the company. Just with a misunderstanding.

NB: I think T-Mobile is in Poland for over 5 years. It was ERA before, and I'm pretty sure T-Mobile bought them a long time ago.

Work / Language Teachers - do you feel respected in Poland? [86]

My wife did teach polish people for years, and she was more ****** at students arriving late or cancelling at the last minute than arriving 5 minutes earlier.

I think the lack of respect is arriving late, not a bit early.

Life / Driving Offences in Poland - How Fast can you go without being arrested? ;) [56]


I remember few days ago. Here close to Leclerc. My wife stopped at a crosswalk. So the pedestrians started to cross. And an axxholes just overtook us and drove away. even my wife was ******.

If you meet that mayor, tell him that a lot of people think the same way. Too many crazy drivers.

And please start to fine cars parking on cycling roads. This is so ennoying. Last time I told some drivers that he was parked badly on a cycling road, he got angry at me ;-) So usual...

Okay, i'll stop now complaining about drivers. Bad for my heart ;-)

Life / Driving Offences in Poland - How Fast can you go without being arrested? ;) [56]


In Poland, I always stop at crosswalk. And people are looking at me waiting. That means a lot about what's going on here.

I don't know how many time I was on a crossroad and a car didn't stop. I got angry few times, punched few cars, got some fight. The worst being few weeks ago, when I was in the middle of the crosswalk with my baby son. Instead of slowing down, the car that was really far away enough not to stop just decided to accelerate. That was a close one.

It's a nightmare here to cross a street.

And I got a fine on an empty road because I was crossing at a red light? WTF is that?

Oh yeah, it's easier to stop a pedestrian than a car that don't stop or over speed or race.

I finish my work late at night. And during the week end, it's racing time between sopot and gdansk on the main street. Crazy and dangerous. Like in the video above.

This country would be perfect without its drivers. ;-)


Thanks there is more better drivers than crazy ones. But it's because of the crazy ones that there is so many death.

I don't say that I'm a perfect driver. I drive fast and I know it. But I think I drive safe, that I respect the other, and that I drive within the law - beside this over speeding sometimes of course.

If everybody was that mad, it would be a carnage :-(

Life / Driving Offences in Poland - How Fast can you go without being arrested? ;) [56]

I saw more dead bodies, accidents and road rage in 7 years in Poland than in 10 years in France and 6 years in Ireland.

In fact I saw 2 accidents in France. Without death. I Ireland I saw nothing (but there I lived in a very small village, so it's kinda normal). In Poland I see accidents every week. I saw dead bodies like I never saw before - the worst one being 4 dead bodies at once and a lot of blood.

Just why?

Why people park like ****, why driving like mad? Where is the fecking police?

Years ago, it wasn't that safe to drive in France. We had a very high death rate on the road. But one day the government decided to end that ****. Police were more present, fines higher, jail usual. People were complaining of course, as they still do because they don't look further like a government usually does. Death rate dropped drastically.

My wife is telling me that I'm not lucky because every time I drive alone, crazy stuff is happening to me. And when we drive together she tells me that I should have been a cop. Because I see everything (I was nearly one in fact)

When you ride a bike you need to anticipate everything, I don't have a bike any longer, but I still behave the same way. Cars can do anything. Be aware of that. Like turning without warning. That's just deadly. My family has the experience of that.

Life / Driving Offences in Poland - How Fast can you go without being arrested? ;) [56]

At the same time, roads are not really made for overtaking. So there is a long line of angry drivers waiting for overtaking as soon as possible with the minimum safeness.


I hate when people do that. Saying that somewhere else it worse. We shouldn't care about that. We need to improve the security on our roads. It doesn't matter if in Ukraine, India, etc. they drive like crazy. Things has to improve in Poland.

Life / Driving Offences in Poland - How Fast can you go without being arrested? ;) [56]


That happened to me so many times. People who didn't like me overtaking them, so they overtook me again and just stopped the car in front of me for me to hit them. Thanks I can see these Asshxxles and avoid them.

Twice we got nearly killed by cars overtaking without any visibility in front of us. If I didn't stopped the car on the side as hard as possible, I wouldn't be here to talk about it.

The worst thing is that when you tell these bloody outlaws on the road that they are wrong, they want to kick your ass. Because they have a big car, big muscles, and so all the right in the world to do whatever the feck they want.

Once, I even had to go to the police because one of these ******** took my plate number. I was "invited" by the police to explain myself. And nothing happened because I was right.

I need to buy a camera as well. Because nobody believe me when I say that every day I see this kind of behaviour.

It's weird, because in everyday life, people are just fine, no anger, not aggressive. But with a steering wheel in their hands, they become so stupid.

Love / I am a male UK Citizen, a Polish female wants to pay me £1000 & £2000 (later) for marriage ???? [25]

May be she wants more and he will have an accident one of those days... Even worse.

I would run away from her. She's poison.

Life / Driving Offences in Poland - How Fast can you go without being arrested? ;) [56]


I got the same ;-)

Empty road, 100 PLN :-(

My wife nearly got one too, but charmed the policeman ;-)


Play nice with the cops. In every country I lived, and drove so. I played nice - because when you get caught, no way of denying it - and it worked most of the time. Beside this pedestrian **** here in Poland. In 25 years of driving, I got 2 speeding tickets and 2 parking tickets. I managed to pay less for 3 of them. I managed to avoid one in Poland, just playing low profile, smile, and talk nice (okay, being a foreigner without any official polish papers helped, even with my PESEL they didn't want to fine me - too much work for them).

If a cop wants to be a brat, he will be a brat. Believe me. My father was a cop, I did my army in the Police in France, some friends are cops. All the same. If you play nice, they can be nice. And if you're blond with big tits. You won ;-)

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

The other way could apply for you. It's because you were successful with some of them that you find them nice ;-)

Of course there are some nice french women, as there is some ugly polish. But at the end of the end, they don't play in the same league. :D

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Been in Poland for a while. 7 years. I hated it at the beginning. Depressing.

But now it's home.

I love the cold winters - always loved crazy weather like in Ireland - great snow, very cold temperature. And I'm from south of France!

You have great beers - AleBrowar, Pinta, Ciechan, Amber, etc... - It's changing so fast since I arrived.

Women are the most beautiful in Europe imho - They are ugly in my country of origin ;-)

I love Pierogis :-)

I like the people.

Plenty of things.

And I don't have the choice. Like I said, it's home now. :D

Life / Driving Offences in Poland - How Fast can you go without being arrested? ;) [56]

I think you can call it bad luck ;-)

And I didn't say that it was better in the other countries, I said Poland was the worst. Which mean that it's not that good either in the other countries. ;-)

I'm not 20 years old. I did some serious driving. Motorbike and car. Crossing Europe few times. I won't say that in Spain or Italy they are great. Or that in Paris they are civilized - Marseilles is even worst than Paris. That in Germany they are the best amongst the best. Or in UK & Ireland it's paradise. Etc. Etc. Nope. I'm not going to say that I always respect the law - I do drive fast sometimes. But I respect the others on the road or on the side of the road. I care about the Motorbikes, bicycles, etc - I just hate the ******* taxis, in any countries - I'm not putting myself or my family in danger or any body.

Here, I noticed that some people just don't care. That's it.

That's may be your only default in Poland. Fxxcking crazy drivers. ;-)

Life / Driving Offences in Poland - How Fast can you go without being arrested? ;) [56]


Sadly it's not. It was between Gdansk and Gdynia. On the motorway. Two big SUV.


I live in Poland. Not in these countries. So I want things to change here as I fear for the security of my family. I don't care how badly they drive in the other countries.

I drove a lot in Poland, and in Europe in general. And even if no drivers around Europe is perfect, here, of all the countries I went, is the worst. Just because they do'nt care about the others. As I wrote, they really think that they are the king of the Road.

Don't get me wrong. Only a few of them are like that, but it's enough to get this high death rate...

Life / Driving Offences in Poland - How Fast can you go without being arrested? ;) [56]

Everyday I drive/ride in Poland by MTB or Car I can see numerous ******** with a car. My wife and I nearly got killed twice because of people overtaking in front of us, I see cars racing, ignoring red lights, turning without warning, getting angry, pushing you because you drive at 70 km/h instead of 120 in town (yes yes I saw that)... Once I was on a motorway, Two SUV didn't like my speed and stopped me. One on my Front-left, the other on my front-right. Thanks I had a small car I could escape through them.

The worst accident I saw was in Poland. I saw a car cut in Three. The engine was on the side, the front on the road, two bodies on the road with lot of blood, and the rest of the car 5 meters behind with two bodies inside.

Drivers here are the craziest of all the countries I had the pleasure to live in. They just don't give a **** about the others. They think that they are the king of the road and that the road whould be only theirs.

And I don't see any cops. Or so rarely. Nothing compared to France for example (where drivers used to be really bad 20 years ago)

Once I got stopped by police. I was just talking to my wife and didn't see the limit. I thing 25 over the limit. He didn't want to bother to cope with a foreigner. But he was nice. And we were also as when you get caught, there is nothing else to say.

Even after 7 years of driving in Poland, I'm still angry on these ********.

Law / If I gain Citizenship of Poland, does this mean I lose my French Citizenship? [18]

It's true that beside voting, having a french passport is way better. Example, I can go to the US without any VISA. Unlike for my wife who is Polish and who would need one.

First too I couldn't open an account:-(

Law / If I gain Citizenship of Poland, does this mean I lose my French Citizenship? [18]


Having the nationality of the country where you live is also a statement, a kinda political stuff. Meaning "look, I'm polish." I live in this country, I pay my taxes, I want to participate in the public life (vote)

I don't see why I could vote for France while I'm not living there, and not for Poland while I'm living there, working, and so on...

Something wrong about that. Being an EU citizen, I should be able to vote in the country I live as long as I pay my tax there.

Law / If I gain Citizenship of Poland, does this mean I lose my French Citizenship? [18]

Good to know thanks :)

Law / If I gain Citizenship of Poland, does this mean I lose my French Citizenship? [18]


Don't plan to split for the next 800 years ;-)

What do you mean by Polish army service board?

Law / Any advantage to citizenship of Poland if already have EU residency? [20]

I could have with the right number. I think it was an employee who didn't want to bother to find the right paper. So commun :-)

When I first arrived in Poland, the first bank I visited refused to open me an account. It was Lukas Bank. Now Credit Agricole. It's so weird as at that time Lukas Bank was already a member of Crédit Agricole. A french bank. ;-)

If I need a credit, I'll think of taking it in another bank. :-)

I want to add that in France it can be the same. Even worse. We left France with my wife because even though she has a better French than plenty of French people, bosses always seemed to find a problem to hire her.

Law / If I gain Citizenship of Poland, does this mean I lose my French Citizenship? [18]


For sure it's the case. As in any town hall in any country ;-)


The problem is mine is too long ;-) Anyway, my wife is getting the credit for me :-) Problem solved :D

More than the pratical reason, I think that getting a Polish citizenship would mean a lot of things.

Thanks for your answers, I should go back and insist to see someone who knows his matter.

Do you know if it's only a question of papers to fill or if like in France I need to pass some tests (langage for example as far as I remember).

Law / If I gain Citizenship of Poland, does this mean I lose my French Citizenship? [18]

When I looked few years ago, I was told that for France there was no problem, I wouldn't loose my french nationality if I asked for Polish citizenship, but in the Polish Town Hall they told me that I would loose it.

Actually, when I went to the Town Hall to get my work permit and residency papers, everytime I saw someone I was told something different. So I presume it's the same with the Polish nationality. Someone at the office will tell me it's possible if I ga back

Polish citizenship would help me for a lot of things as I planned to stay in Poland for a very long time... :-) It's wrong to think that being a citizen of EU and living in Poland has no drawbacks. For example, I can't get a bank credit. I can't buy anything in a shop monthly. They just have a problem with their papers and my ID number, it doesn't fit. It took me 5 years to get a creditr card. I have a stable income, I have a flat, I was married in Poland and yet, I feel like I'm not that trustfull for some people (I mean banks, phone companies, etc)

I should go and ask again, and talk to someone who know his subject there ;-) As it seems that people working in a Town hall are not that good helping people (like in France though)

Thanks :-)

Law / Any advantage to citizenship of Poland if already have EU residency? [20]

Not that easy.

I live in Poland for 7 years, been married to a polish women for that long too. And I can't get a credit at my bank because I don't have a Polish citizenship though it's agaisnt the law obviously. But in their paper, there is no room for my french ID number :-(

It was difficult at the beginning for me to get anything even if I'm a member of the EU. Getting better though.

Love / Why are Polish girls so attracted to German boys? [52]

It's strange, I live in Poland, And I mostly see Polish Women with French Guys, and it's not for th emoney as they live and work in Poland with Polish wages.

May be it's just because Polish Women are the most beautiful one in Europe ;-)