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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Regular on October 17, 2006, 02:15:07 AM
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Ever visit this place? I heard good vodka with flipper babys. I will be there during Xmas.
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Bring plenty of warm clothing and leave your bling at home. The polish people i have met have been very friendly and polite but on a bad day you can get robbed.
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What part? I've never been myself but I've been told that Warsaw is beautiful.
Obie
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Is there anyone left in Poland apart from the old and the infirm? Everyone else seems to have moved to the UK.
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haven't been there yet, but if I were you I'd avoid their cyclo clubs like the plague.
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/19_1161076188_poland.jpg)
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Hey,
I'm still in Warsaw (i mean working abroad about 50% time but still more or less live in Poland) :)
If you want to visit a nice place, go to Cracow!
warsaw is just a business city with not that many nice places. Of course if you are intrested in pubs/clubs ect, Warsaw is a good choice as well.
Let me know if oyu need more details on something :)
Cheers,
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^^ bike, you on that picture? :D
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Never been there but I heard a plane crashed in a cemetary there a while back
During the recovery efforts they say so far they've found the remains of almost 2,000 people ;)
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I was in Lotz, - dull but ok, (very cheap), then Warshaw (more expensive, but worth a visit) Auschwitz/Birkenau (Shocking), the Krakow. Krakow is really really nice :aok
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I've never been there, but have many friends who come from Krakow... The pictures are really cool. Check out the salt mines.
Also the girls are cute. You'll enjoy yourself. But don't be suprised if you bump into a bunch of people nostalgic for Communism, strange as it might seem to us.
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Originally posted by Vudak
people nostalgic for Communism
Anyone seen Boroda? He hasnt posted anything since August 25th.
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bet he's hiding in some bushes in Oklahoma ever since he came to wolf's wedding... and discovered the world of crispy creme.
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i live in warsaw ( just had lunch with Bikekill for that matter :D)
Are you coming for business or just a tourist trip ?
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Anyone seen Boroda? He hasnt posted anything since August 25th.
He was staying with me in the US till Sept 25th, then left for Brisbane AU for the next 2 or 3 months.
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Originally posted by Wolfala
He was staying with me in the US till Sept 25th, then left for Brisbane AU for the next 2 or 3 months.
Ah good to know he is ok.
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Originally posted by Saintaw
^^ bike, you on that picture? :D
Naaah Saw :) I'm more keen to kill'em... they are using the space on the road i might use to get home about a minute earlier then usually :mad:
yeah, if you are in Cracow, salt mine in Wieliczka is something you should really see!
And to be honest, i never seen people wanting the "old times" back... never on the street. I'm sure you also won't seen them.
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Big boys downstairs let the big man get killed being polish.
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Im coming as tourist like I am.
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Auschwitz/Birkenau (Shocking)
Thats the place I want to visit. Is it safe to go there as an American tourist?
Is it like "ghetto" as we call it here in the States?
Like a Cabrini Green hood?
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It's as safe as any other place you can visit in Europe (more or less). Of course are some "bad" neighborhoods in the cities, but if you are not very keen to get there, you won't find it :) Just be as careful as you would be in France or UK.
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Originally posted by Regular
Auschwitz/Birkenau (Shocking)
Thats the place I want to visit. Is it safe to go there as an American tourist?
Is it like "ghetto" as we call it here in the States?
Like a Cabrini Green hood?
Intrestingly enough it isn't as shocking as most expect. I went there recently expecting it to be far worst. Seems that they toned it down because of the tourists. It is a combination of your knowledge of what really happend, put together with the place you're visiting that's shocking.
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Originally posted by bikekil
And to be honest, i never seen people wanting the "old times" back... never on the street. I'm sure you also won't seen them.
The argument I've heard from a number of Poles on vacation here in the States is "well, at least under Communism, we had a job," etc.
To be fair they've all been in their young 20's and probably don't really know what it was like.
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that's true, as having a job (very very very very rarely private) was mandatory.
Other problem was that people had nothing to do :)
In many cases you just had to be in the office... you was drinking tea, chatting with friends, and after 8 hours leaving for home... forn months, years and so on.
And of course you was getting your sallary, allowing you to buy food and nothing more, if you were lucky and there was something in the shop. From time to time you had vinegar and vinegar only! not a single thing more in a shop :)
Also, even if you had the money, you couldn't spend it if you had no "cards". You was receiving them monthly and everytime you was buyng something you had to leave a card or more in the shop (to prevent you from buyng more goods... because others wound; have no chance to buy some).
Oh, one more thing.. if you wanted to buy a meat you had to wake up early and stand in a queue since 5-6am and... mayne about 1-2pm you had a pleasure to buy something, especially before the christmas :)
There were other funny things... you had no right to buy and to have the US $, but you had the shops where you could spend $. That was the only places where you could buy computers (i got my forst atari 65 for 127$ ;-) )
Anyway, if the folks who were saying it were young, just don't believe them :) they woulnd not liked that system after a week or two... and i'm not sure they could survive there for longer ;-)
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Heyas Fd-Ski, I'm glad I got to meet you at the 2003 Con. <
> my friend.
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This the place I always wanted to visit. Or Finland.