For vacation To visit family/friends I visit to conduct business every now and then I am considering moving there I live outside of Poland but travel there to work frequently I am researching family history there I don't visit Poland I visit to attend social/formal events
More and more Poland becomes a country that people visit for various reasons. What is your reason? Please vote in the poll. :)
Hey, nobody has set such rules... I have voted of course. My reasons to visit nothern Poland (I live in the south) are the same as Szymek`s - I can`t wait to see the Polish seaside. I have enough of the mountains.
The first sight of the sea after a long year is breathtaking. It feels like orgasm. Then it is even better (provided the weather permits):
Is not so far from London so I can even one time per month :D Similarly like you from Edinburgh, right? :) But I can't, is it too often. Last time I been in Poland one month ago. Next time I planning in March.
From that wonderful photo you posted, I can see why :)
Exactly. I made that photo ^^ I love this view from my beach :)
It feels like orgasm.
:D Believe me - I was born near Baltic Sea, I live 2 kilometres from seaside and always when I see this place I'm soooo happy :D
I would like to visit Poland because my Father was from there ! hope to go in 2009 ( now ) but I am not sure what part of the country would be best to visit for the first time !
For holidays and to visit family (mainly the former though). I prefer to go for one week holidays, several times a year.
I spend more time in CZ these days though, as it's cheaper, better value, and I have to make more of an effort with the language, whereas speaking Polish is like speaking English - I do it daily anyway - and one of the reasons I go abroad so often is to develop language skills. My Polish doesn't really improve by visiting Poland (apart from picking up new Anglicised words, haha).
But I hope I won't stop visiting Poland for a very long time, because it's in my blood, even though I was born in the UK. There's still a lot I want and need to see/do there, and I need at least a decade to do all that :)
ooops!!! sorry I got to excited and wrote everything in polish :) I'm getting ready to visit my family back home. Have not seen them in few years now. I'm very excited about the trip, seeing my hometown, eating some good food and showing Poland to my wife.
Can't wait. I'll throw in some pix when I come back.
I went in 2000 and in fall 2008! My grandparents were born in Poland. My Mom's side are mostly Polish from the Poznan area, and my Dad's side are mostly ethnic Germans from near Rypin and Lipno near Torun.
It was such a feeling flying over Poland for the first time! I was so excited! And it was cool to see things that so many take for granted when their families live in one place for many generations.
I got to see the churches where my grandparents attended, town and villages. It was extra sweet because when I began my genealogy research, I barely knew anything about Poland or where they all came from! Having gone through all the work, it was even more exciting to actually be there!
Having gone through all the work, it was even more exciting to actually be there!
Ditto. I was there in July 2008 for the same reason - visiting my father's parents' home villages of Wola Cieklinkska (20 minutes east of Gorlice) and Wysowa/Blechnarka (on the border with Slovakia). We had nothing but clouds flying in to Warsaw, but as we approached Krakow I started seeing the land as depicted in works by Lemko artists and it was unlike anything else I'd experienced in my entire life. When I finally arrived in my baba's home village I felt like I was finally at home. I can't explain it and don't care if anyone else understands it - I know what I felt.
I have a hard time explaining it too, but feel good that another person has had such a similar experience! I remember thinking about the land, too as I flew over Poland. Like you, I felt strangely at home and connected to my roots.
I felt strangely at home and connected to my roots.
You are not alone. It was odd for me because I thought that my connection to my homeland came through my grandfather, who grew up in Wola Cieklinska. We visited there on the third day of our trip and I was disappointed that I did not have a more visceral reaction to the place. I could tell that it was the same for my father. Several days later we drove through the Beskidy's, seeing Lemko villages on our way to Wysowa, where I felt something serious happening. The next day friends brought us into the neighboring village of Blechnarka, where my grandmother's house had truly stood. Boom. I was home. I mentioned this to my friend - the whole story. An hour later we met an elderly woman who told me I looked just like my mother's nephew. Not an hour after I'd had this epiphany - it was confirmed. So be careful of pre-conceived notions. My connection to Lemkovyna ran directly from my baba through my tato to me. By the way - we soon discovered that the woman was a distant relative of my father's. A few months later I also discovered that her son is married to my father's first cousin and her daughter lives very nearby to me. So as a result of this trip I am connected to close Lemko relatives. It's like a friend of mine said when I first discovered where we were from - "you gotta go there."
oooyeeee I`m from Croatia and I`m coming to Poznan on student exchange program ... and I need as much info as I can get ;-) where to go on shopping ,what museums to visit ,what to eat (traditional food)....
can you tell me something about dorms, prices, bus lines in city Thanks in advance Hugs
I will visit poland for business and also want to know more about the world, every country. It is amazing places as the person there is wise, kind and good at business. I can learn more from them.
