Planning a Trip to Poland

Heading south-east of Poland, you should drop me a line! My home is in Mokrelipe and my loved family (mum and dad) lives there. You will be all welcome to stay over in my house and experience a pure Polish village with peaceful beautiful scenery, great for biking, camping, swim in lakes and just a great relax! best time to go there- mid summer, July- August.
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Sometimes ugly, sometimes beautiful, sometimes makes u laugh and sometimes cry... it is like watiching the best and the worst movie at the same time, makes u wanna turn off the TV but then suddenly... don't miss it !!!

The Lazienki Gardens in Warsaw are absolutely beautiful. Best time to visit is during the early summer when the rose gardens are blooming around Beethoven's statue.

Super Super Super this place rocks I want live there its my second home I'm there at least 2 time a month. best place in the world. My wife is from Krakow

If it's about partying in poland, sopot is one on the best places and definitely the best one on the seaside. in the summer season you can choose from a number of clubs and pubs both in the city center and on the beach. during the day you can enjoy sopot's beautiful beaches or, if it rains, spend time in one of the numerous cafes or restaurants.

Polish people use a slightly different way to count using the fingers. Make a fist with your right hand with the palm facing your body, and start with your thumb as one. Two-open your pointing finger, three-middle finger and so on. So if you want to buy two breads, do not make the conventional peace sign; they wont understand! People in Krakow speaks very little English, you might have a lot of trouble in finding train station, post office, or even buying food in McDonald. So it's very useful to learn few Polish vocabs about places. Remembers 'W' in poland sounds like 'V'. So Krakow actually sounds like k-rah-coa-f rather than k-rah-coa-oo. Learning the pronounciation also helps alot when communicating to local people when asking direction. Places of interests are Rynek Krakowski, Wawel Castle, St Mary's Basilica and few attraction outside the city like Wieliczka Saltmine and Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camps. Guided tour to Auschwitz and Saltmine can be book at the Sukiennice building at Rynek Krakowski. If you would like kosher cuisine, you can find them almost everywhere around the city, especially in the Jewish Old Town, Kazimierz. There's 7 synagogues in this ghetto but you might have troubles finding some of them. For muslims, you can find NO halal food at all over here. Be prepares to eat vegetables or fish or bring your own food if your coming here. For 4 days I was there, I only managed to finds two muslims. There's few kebab restaurants but none of them serve halal food. When I ask about halal food, one of the workers of Turkish background said to me, "No, never in this country. Maybe in Warsaw but not here."

AQQ Hostel is awesome if you dont mind staying in a dorm!! Its cheap (10-12€night), the whole hostel is new, staff is fantastic, super clean (even bathrooms), free laundry, free internet, very cozy, the best hostel I have been to!

on Finlandzka street there is a small fair- trade cafe. They have lots of different tipes of tea and coffe, and internet wifi for free

Łódz (Lodz, Poland)
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Love it!!!!!! fabulous! Ok, built by Germans.. But the castle is outrageous: Prepare for 4 hours of sightseeing, but it's worth a visit:) ... For historicians it's Heaven on Earth.. But have you known, that only somenthing over 20% of whole castle is original? The rest has been reconstructed after the devastation after II World War. But everything looks amazing- if not the old photographies which are beeing shown in the castle, I wouldn't have recon;) Wait for the guide- they are available in the ticketpoint, all languages- a lot of groups;) Breathtaking place^^

As one enters Auschwitz one of the first thoughts, strangely, is that one should turn vegetarian... indeed Auschwitz feels like a systematic abattoir... the idea that it was one meant for men, women and children is a sobering thought with no comparison ... when you see the masses of hair, glasses, shoes, clothes and bags of victims behind glass panes, or when you see the point at which they were hoarded off trains into gas chambers, when you see the oven in which bodies were burnt and ashes disposed in a pond, or when you see the various ingenious ways of torture, execution and imprisonment ... there is little left to think ... you may perhaps shed a tear and walk around in shock, or you may click photos and view things with historical interest... but most visitors, as they walk this most famous (infamous) of the Nazi camps, for the most part remain strangely silent ...

Just visit the concentration camp and remember please, don't take photos all the time. Respect people who died there and try to understand exactly what happen. Follow the information about Birkenau, gazkammer etc... In memoriam

WOODSTOCK! What a trip this festival is. Unless you want sausage everyday all day, bring your own food or go check out the Hare Krishna area.  Also prepare to get dirty and be around drunks with super loud music.  Lots of photo opps! :)

A wonderful showcase of the old and new. The contrast from a ultra modern democratic Poland and the blandness of its communist history. Churches on most every block. All unique and beautiful. The city square (in old Warsaw) is picturesque and a great place to watch the people walk by. It is a custom of the locals to walk to town on Sundays. The old city square is a great place to eat and drink.

For cheap places to stay there are usually people around the train station offering rooms in private houses. You have to go to Wawel (pronounced Vavel) Castle. Some say this is the heart of Poland and it is the past seat of Polish Kings. There is also a Smok (Dragon) that lives in the tunnel underneath the castle. Two day trips you have to make are 1. Oswiencim (Aushwitz). You can take a train from the center of Krakow, to within a couple of hundred meters of the front gates. You cannot miss this testament to the horrors of the Nazis and genocide. 2. Wielizcka salt mines. This is another trip possible by the efficient Polish railway system. These salt mines have been in service for hundreds of years and are now a Unesco world heritage site. As the miners took the salt out they carved statues and even a cathedral into the caves. Really amazing. Don't forget to listen to the trumpter in the main square and to have a great time. Krakow is fantastic!

There is a great movie festival in summer!!

One of the things you have to see in Bialystok is Branicki Palace (called Versaille of the North) with the garden (designed after Versaille gardens) and the park around - wheter it's cold or warm you will always meet people there ;)

If u interested in history of art u HAVE to visit that city! It is example of local version of renesanse. In past it was muliticultural city and still u can find examples of this.

You can climb Szyndzielnia mountain, eat polish traditional food(also local food), visit castle, walk through old part of the city, buy ticket to Jazz Festival and find some of Vienna's spirit.