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dziwna_gruszka
  Oct 26, 06, 12:28  #31

LOl i've never seen a prostitute by the road side in Poland anywhere... but ya that's funny....

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spiritus
  Oct 26, 06, 13:03  #32

Really?

Maybe they only "come out" in summer :) but it's true.

Normally they stand on the outskirts of major towns just by the side of the motorway.

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Matyjasz
  Oct 26, 06, 19:41  #33

OKay well my family and my mom is from Czestochowa and i have never seen them there or Warsaw either.... that's weird


Częstochowa is called "The City of the Saint Tower", and is a catholic sanctuary, so I don't think that you will ever see them standing there.

As for Poznań, I haven’t seen them for over two years now. Maybe they have changed their working place? :)

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dziwna_gruszka
  Oct 26, 06, 21:29  #34

Omg Matyjasz lol maybe... !!!!

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spiritus
  Oct 27, 06, 01:38  #35

Dziwna

My mother also comes from Czestochowa. I visit there at least once a year (I love this place).

The prostitutes don't tout for business in the city but on the outskirts of large towns and cities. They are definitely on the way into Czestochowa as I've seen them many times when driving back from Katowice airport. The first time I thought I'd seen the hitchiker from my dreams and wanted my friend to pull over until he told me why she was actually standing there

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Bartolome
  Oct 27, 06, 06:53  #36

Ah, you're talking about 'girls' here ? If you're in Poland and 'hungry', you can always check my neck of woods - the road between Opole and Strzelce Opolskie. You'll always find some 'company' there. If there isn't anybody, it means they're busy

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dziwna_gruszka
  Oct 27, 06, 09:17  #37

well Bartolome... uhh i'm not interested in company like that....

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wozzy
  Oct 30, 06, 11:57  #38

Been there and got back in one piece............The driveing wasn't as bad as I thought. the worst part was the road works that are going on at the moment.
Didn't see one accident, or evidence of road rage or madness, things were quite calm. Didn't see many police either, I think driveing at home in britian is worse.....

Didn't see any sluts by the road side, the only person I picked up was a " babcia" outside a cemetry in Bartne, she was waiting for a bus and cadged a lift to the next village, and all i got from her were the pearls of wisdom in "bog bedzie placic ce".......


( sorry can't be bothered to change the keyboard)

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z_darius
  Jan 13, 08, 12:06  #39

From my experience, driving in Poland is way too dangerous. It almost feels like most drivers don't really care about reaching their destination as much as they care to show that they can press the gas pedal harder than another person on the road.

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scarbyirp
  Jan 13, 08, 12:14  #40

Driving in Poland can be best summed up with . . . [b]"No mate, it's a daewoo matiz, not a feckin Bugati."[/b]

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Michal
  Jan 14, 08, 10:57  #41

I think part of their problem is that the Poles want to show off. They have lived under communism for so long having to travel by public transport. Now, they can buy new fast and expensive high performance cars on credit and it seems to be going to their heads a bit. You need to be very careful in Poland. The Police will stop you for speeding and will then take a bribe and the roads in winter are dreadful. I even knew of one man who lost his head in a car, quite literally!! If you can, avoid the country all together.

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Zgubiony
  Jan 14, 08, 11:02  #42

I've just spent the last 2 weeks driving in Poland and most of you are exadurating.
Michal wrote:
they can buy new fast and expensive high performance cars on credit and it seems to be going to their heads a bit

It's called young kids. Everywhere there are young people you'll see showing off and bad driving.

I wouldn't avoid the country, but as anywhere else drive defensively


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jones101
Edited by: jones101  Jan 14, 08, 11:04  #43

The bribe thing is pretty much gone anywhere near the cities...they are cracking down on it.

Rurally however old school rules still apply.

I also wouldn't say PL is the worse place in the world to drive (Asia comes to mind) but it for sure is not safe....horrible road conditions combined with poor and aggressive drivers is not a good combination. Poland has consistently the highest or second highest road fatality rate in the EU depending on the year...this is not my opinion...look it up.

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BubbaWoo
  Jan 14, 08, 12:20  #44

Zgubiony wrote:
It's called young kids.


in the uk i would agree with you - boy racers tend in the most part to be very young men - this is not what i have observed in poland where most of the high speed and show off drivers i see are grown adults, male and female, driving what appear to be high spec company cars

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jones101
  Jan 14, 08, 12:21  #45

Agreed Bubba...I see 'grown' adults driving like the Fast and Furious types all the time here.

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Zgubiony
  Jan 14, 08, 13:25  #46

True in many cases. I do agree, but I still think that PL isn't bad in comparison to some other places around the world.


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jones101
  Jan 14, 08, 13:27  #47

Such as? China? India? I would agree...but you'd be hard pressed to find a developed country with worse drivers...and the statistics back that up.

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Zgubiony
  Jan 14, 08, 13:32  #48

jones101 wrote:
but you'd be hard pressed to find a developed country with worse drivers

Italy has awful drivers and USA has some of the worst. I hear Spain and France are also pretty bad. I can vouch for USA living in New York :) Horrible


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Doba
  Jan 14, 08, 13:36  #49

sure if you go down town NY, I’m sure its one of the worst, but is it really? how hard is it to drive in stop dead traffic, put the car in Park and honk the horn.

Poland is fun to drive, I drove my cousins car a few times in Warsaw and it was a blast. driving in Canada is boring in comparison.

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AvJoeUK [Guest]
  Jan 14, 08, 13:37  #50

I was scared...shirtless.

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jones101
  Jan 14, 08, 13:37  #51

I agree Italy is bad...and NYC is not representative of the USA...France and Spain have lots of bad reputations that simply are not true as people who have lived there would know.

I still say none of the places you mention are worse than Poland...and Poland consistently has either the top or second from top highest road fatality rate in the EU.

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Zgubiony
  Jan 14, 08, 13:42  #52

jones101 wrote:
Poland consistently has either the top or second from top highest road fatality rate in the EU.

That's what happens when you line the roads with trees :) But I still think you're exadurating.


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jones101
  Jan 14, 08, 13:54  #53

Why are you calling Polish drivers "trees"? :=)

But really you can think I am exaggerating all you want but there are statistic available to prove the point.

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Zgubiony
  Jan 14, 08, 14:13  #54

Not to challenge you, but where are these stats?


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Michal
  Jan 14, 08, 14:13  #55

The main trouble is that after a few drinks, the Poles get some of that all important Dutch courage and they quite simply forget themselves.

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jones101
  Jan 14, 08, 14:17  #56

I will look for the recent ones I have seen with Poland at the top but this is what Google found quickly...

http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20section/statistics/stats-multi country-percapita-2004.htm

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wozzy
  Jan 16, 08, 09:26  #57

Just survived another trip on Polish roads, did quite a lot of milage on this trip, but still can't say they are bad drivers in genral.
The city of Wroclaw was a little hard to navigate through with all the road works, but that was lack of local knowlage.

On the final trip back to the airport at Katowice got stuck in the most horrendous tailback of motrway trafic, it sreached from krakow to almost the exit for Katowice. I broke every road trafic law known to do the last 50km. Got to checkin desk as they shut, thank you Wizz Air for being so considerate and letting us through.

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Brapp
  Jan 19, 08, 07:55  #58

Life and death, basically.

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scarbyirp
Edited by: scarbyirp  Jan 19, 08, 08:10  #59

Check this out then . . .



That Matiz is probably back on the road now, I bet the driver ain't

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Foreigner4
  Jan 19, 08, 09:59  #60

just came back from a lovely ski trip and i have to say that for the most part drivers were more responsible than ever this week, maybe ferie had something to do with it. At the start of it, i saw loads of accidents last friday and saturday but going up to the mountains it was incredibly civil. But leaving only one major collision and maybe 3 overly aggressive drivers out there. Then again i left there and back with plenty of time so maybe i just was in spoko morroco mode this week.

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