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  • Michal K

    Re: Rory, Dennis

    geplaatst door  Michal K in Poznań forum 

    Welcome to Poznan, Rory and Dennis :) Well... it's hard to say something about living here in just couple of words.

    As our nation has lived under russian like-uccupation, behind so-called "iron curtain" we used to be closed country and unfortunely, sometimes we still are in some paarts of Poland. But since Poland joined EU it has been changin :-)

    Personaly, i believe that Euro 2012 has made a significant change to our communism-affected mentality. We shoved a great sympathy and support for Irish football fans and they were fantastic to us too. Since then we expecting more and more peoplem from all over the world to come to Poland and some of them may even want to stay here for good :-)

    As far as I know, there is no official English speaking group in Poznań, no forum or website, but maybe I didn't search enough to find one.

    About everday life in Poznan:

    1. Transport:
    The public transport is one of the best and modern in the whole country. But is one of most expensive
    though and often affected buy roadworks and traffic. Try use tramway rather than bus.
    2. Shopping:
    We have a lot chain shops and supermarkets. From cheapest as "Biedronka" ( eng. "Ladybird" - look
    for yellow-painted shops with "ladybird" logo) trough Tesco, Auchan, to "Piotr&Pawel" (eng."Peter&Paul")
    which is like "Mark&spencer" in the UK)
    Also, in Poznan there is couple of Mall Galleries such as "Kupiec" (pronouce: Coopietz) "Stary Browar"
    (pronouce: Staree Brovar) where you will find famous cloths brands, for example Levi's, Wrangler, Adidas,
    Nike etc, as well as electronic ones: samsung, nokia, sony etc. Both located in the city centre.
    Please note that we also have small cornershops - but they are run by Poles, not by Pakistani, Hindi or
    Turkish guys ;)
    3. Food&Drinks: We have range of different restaurants: from ones serving typical Polish meals to chinese and
    other exotic ones.
    Fastfood here is the same like anywhere in Europe: McShits, Burger Shit, KFS-hit, Shitway etc, but also lot of
    pleaces serving kebabs, hod-dogs and "zapiekanka" ( It's a half of horizontally-cut baguette, covered with
    fried white mushroms and melted grated chees (optionally with mixed salads ) served hot.
    Rory, forget about Fish&Chips, you won't find any ;-)
    4.Night life:
    For students, during academic year 24/7 ;-)
    For others: starts on friday, culminating on saturday night, ends
    on sunday morning.
    Lot of pubs and clubs, depends on what sort of entertainment you prefer. They all serve simmilar sort of
    drinks from beer, vine to whisky and vodka. At the Dragon Pub they used to serve Strongbow cider, but i'm
    not sure if they still do.
    5. it is sad but most of people don't speak English :( Even in public offices. Be ware of some taxi drivers. If they
    realise you are from abroad they may cheat you on travel cost.
    6. Good news is we have one of the most beautiful girls in the world :)))

    Any question, please ask me here. Sorry for any spelling and grammar mistakes I do ;)

    Have fun :)

    Michal.

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