What are your 10 fave things about Poland? And 10 least favourite?

I suppose I had better do one.
Faves (not particular order)
1. Barszcz czerwony
2. Polish food prices
3. Okocim
4. Ryneks
5. Polish hotel prices (not so good recently!)
6. Spring/Summer weather
7. Polish girls names

Non-faves
1. Polish roads
2. Winter weather

Favs

1. Beautiful forests
2. Spruced up, colorful market squares (rynek)
3. Very tasty home cooking (if you like polish food)
4. genuine conversations
5. Private gardens (ogrodki) in the middle or on the outskirts of a city
(a weekend escape for the owners)
6. small vegetable and fruit shops (warzywniaki)
7. weekly farmer markets
8. new houses with interesting architecture
9. Hospitality
10. Ice cream shops
11. Drivers stopping for pedestrians (even the bad ones?)

Non-Favs

1. Roads and road signs
2. Drivers
3. Laundry on the balconies
4. Muddy paths in parks
5. Prices in the Malls (outrages)
6. Not too friendly service clerks (banks, grocery stores), improved, but still...
7. Pushy beggars at bus and train stations.

Laundry in the balconies, in Scotland it is much the same

Drivers, much ado about nothing, I don't think they're that bad

hoo boy, worth every penny. what the hell is in the water over there?

well, thanks for the info. I guess it makes it a little bit more "normal" then...
Not too appealing, nonetheless :)

Clothes have to get dry somehow. Many Scottish families in houses use tumble-driers or clothes horses. It's the blocks that use the balconies as they have them funnily enough. In America?

Yes i bet they have.....Is that different types of B**w j's?

What's that?

I live in a small condo complex and I never saw any clothes on the balcony. People use only dryers.
Our by-laws however mention that we can hang cloths between certain hours of the day, but never after 6 p.m. I hang my dry cleaned work outfits (read suits) to "air them out" from the chemical smell, but I'd never do it with my regular laundry.

B4 Osioł jumps in with a funny remark, it is sth to put ur wet clothes on to dry. U could say a clothes stand. Suszarka do ubrań in Polish

Like This Eurola. I have one, they're very handy during the summer...er, winter ;)

That's it. What do we call it in Scotland again? A claes horsie?

Thanks PD. I did see it in Poland. I also saw kind of multiple, round bars attached to a bathroom wall for drying clothes. I'm not sure if they we heated too. Both referred to as suszarki (dryers).

or some strange free association..

He is quite random but that's why we like him

1. Concrete telegraph poles.
2. Those little glass things they put your change on in shops.
3. Snow in winter and sliding about on frozen lakes and ponds.
4. Drivers repeatedly saying "Kurwa" nervously as they cross tram tracks.
5. Old orange squash and vegetable oil bottles containing spirytus.

To be continued...


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Sorry, I was supposed to make this clear. My favourite things in Poland might be a list of alcoholic beverages or perhaps a list of (female) Polish names, or just some place names I like the sound of. This is a list of the first 5 things I could think of that raise a smile and make me think of Poland.

are they your fav things or least fav? I still find them interesting, just not sure of tone.

Sorry, was I supposed to say if they were my favourite or least favourite?

Most of these ones are all somewhere in the middle. Don't they count though?


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I just edited the post just before this one. I hope it was good enough for you all.

Of course they count. Just list them clearly

yeah, you know what I mean about tone, that answers my question.

this explains a lot of your posts. kidding.. good list. #3's the best.

The donkey is always good for a laugh

hey, sanest guy around probably..

this whole forum is a new flying circus for the most part.

I beg to differ!

My least favourite things:

1. Being stuck behind an ancient police car.
2. Snickers bars - they don't taste nearly as good as the ones I know and love here in the UK.
3. Too many over-the-top orangey-coloured fake tans on blonde haired girls. They'd look so much better without it.
4. Having a hangover because someone forced me to mix vodka, beer and champagne. A glass of wine just looks unnatural in the hand of a Polish man - that's why it was "forced" into my hand.
5. The lektor.