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M7 Section 2.4 (Book 2) Living In That Country
EASTERN EUROPE:
POLAND
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CONTENT
Country Overview ...... 3
Poland Interesting Facts ...... 5
Festivals and Public Holidays ...... 11
Amazing Facts about Poland ...... 11
How to live like a local ...... 13
VISAS AND IMMIGRATION ...... 14
Cost of Living ...... 18
Health and Sickness ...... 27
Learning the Language ...... 28
Learning Polish ...... 30
The Best Resources for Learning Polish ...... 30
Avoiding Scams and Traps in Poland ...... 39
Positives and negatives of living in Poland ...... 43
Culture, Society, Taboos and Differences ...... 47
Culture Shock in Poland ...... 49
Accommodation ...... 51
Finding Accommodation in Poland ...... 51
Meeting Other People ...... 55
Meeting Other Foreigher ...... 56
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Transportation ...... 56
Useful Apps ...... 57
Discovering a Warsaw you Never Would ...... 58
Places to Visit and Things to Do ...... 59
Food and Dishes ...... 62
Healthcare Services ...... 64
Directories and Useful Phone Numbers ...... 69
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International Organisations: Poland is COUNTRY OVERVIEW a member of the European Union (EU),
the Schengen Area, North Atlantic Treaty Quick Guide
Organisation (NATO), United Nations Official name: Republic of Poland (short (UN), International Monetary Fund (IMF), form: Poland), Rzeczpospolita United Nations Educational, Scientific and Polska (short form in Polish: Polska) Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), United Nations International Official Language: Polish
Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Location: Central Europe. Poland borders World Health Organisation (WHO), World Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Trade Organisation (WTO), Organisation Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Russia for Cooperation and Development (OECD) (the Kaliningrad exclave). Its northern and many others. border (440 km long) runs along the Baltic
Sea coast. Main Polish cities
Capital: Warszawa (Warsaw: population Warszawa (Warsaw) 1.7 million / Warsaw agglomeration: 2.5 million) The capital of Poland with over 1.7 million inhabitants. It is a business city, to which Population: 38 million. Poland has the many Poles migrate searching for seventh largest population in Europe education and job opportunities. Thanks (omitting Russia), and the sixth largest in to its 50 plus higher education institutions, the European Union. it has a vibrant spirit and constitutes an
important scientific and cultural centre. Time zone: Poland belongs to the Central The city was almost completely destroyed European time zone (GMT + 1 hour / UTC during World War II. Its present + 1 hour), except for between the last architectural landscape has largely been Sunday in March and the last Sunday in shaped by the years of communism October when it switches to daylight (symbolized by the Palace of Science and saving time. Culture) and its entrepreneurial character
(skyscrapers). Climate: The Polish climate is moderate continental, with relatively cold winters Kraków (Cracow) (from December to March) and hot summers which extend from June to The former seat of the royal family and August. January temperatures average - capital of Poland until 1596. Its stunning 1°C (30°F) to -5°C (23°F). July and architecture and treasures of art attract August average temperatures range from thousands of tourists each year. It is 16.5°C (62°F) to 19°C (65°F), though considered the cradle of the Polish science some days the temperature can reach because the first Polish university, the even 35°C (95°F). Jagiellonian University, was founded here in 1364. Today, it is an important cultural Currency: 1 zloty (PLN) = 100 groszy and academic centre with over 730,000 (current exchange rates: www.nbp.pl) residents.
Calling-code:+48; Internet domain: .pl
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Wrocław where most famous Polish actors, cameramen and directors such as Roman The fourth largest Polish city and the Polanski and Andrzej Wajda learnt their capital of Lower Silesia (Dolny Śląsk). profession. In total, the city has over 25 Wrocław has a large, beautiful Old Town, higher education institutions. whose unique atmosphere is a result of its rich history and astonishing location. It is situated on several islands that are POLAND INTERESTING surrounded by the Oder River and its tributaries. Wrocław is a city of students, FACTS known for music and theatre festivals, as 1. Poland’s formal name is Rzeczpospolita well as its bustling nightlife. Polska (Republic of Poland).
Gdańsk 2. Poland has 120,562 square miles
(312,255 km2) of area, which makes the A major Polish seaport. Together with country slightly smaller than New Mexico. Gdynia and Sopot it forms a metropolis called Tricity (Trójmiasto) with approximately 750,000 inhabitants. It has 3. Poland’s highest point is Mt. Rysy at 8,199 feet (2,499 m); its lowest is near a beautiful Old Town reflecting its long and turbulent history. It used to be an Raczki Elbląskie at 6.56 feet (2 m) below important Hanseatic city and was owned sea level. alternately by Poland and Germany. It is also the city where World War II began 4. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004. and the birthplace of the Polish Solidarity movement. 5. The Polish flag has two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red; the colors Poznań derive from the Polish emblem, which is a One of the oldest and largest Polish cities. white eagle on a red field. Poland’s flag is similar to the flags of Indonesia and Thanks to its location on the Paris-Moscow Monaco, which are red (top) and white. route it has always been an important transport and trade centre. International 6. Poland’s national anthem is Trade Fairs have been held here annually Dąbrowski’s Mazurek. The anthem, since 1925. Today, the city’s economic commonly known as “Jeszcze Polska nie power peaks due to numerous foreign zginęla” (“Poland Has Not Yet Perished”), investments. This, together with a great number of universities and research was written in 1797 by Jozef Wybicki. The anthem was composed in Italy, where institutes, makes it the second fastest Polish troops were fighting at the side of developing city in Poland. Napoleon.
Łódź 7. The first Polish ruler recorded in history The third largest city in Poland in terms of was Mieszko, about A.D. 963. In 966, Mieszko adopted Christianity, making the population, located in the centre of the country. In the 19th century it used to be Poland the easternmost country within the orbit of Latin culture. the main industrial power of Poland thanks to its textile industry. Recently, however, 8. Poland's Białowieża Primeval Forest is it has been turning into a cultural centre, home to 800,000 European bison, partly because of the Łódź Film School, an Europe’s heaviest land animal (Valène internationally renowned Polish film school Aure / Creative Commons)
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9. The 380,000-acre (150,000-hectare) 17. Poland was the only European country Białowieża Primeval Forest in Poland is which never officially collaborated with the Europe’s last ancient forest and home to Nazis at any level, and no Polish units 800 European bison, Europe’s heaviest fought alongside the Nazi army. Poland land animals. never officially surrendered to Germany, and the Polish Resistance movement in 10. The Mongols’ invasion of Poland from German-occupied Poland during World late 1240 to 1241 culminated in the battle War II was the largest resistance of Legnica, where the Mongols defeated movement in Europe. an alliance of forces from fragmented Poland and members of various Christian 18. The word “Poland” is the Anglicized military orders led by Henry II the Pious, version of Polska, which is ultimately the Duke of Silesia. derived from the word or “field.” Thus, Poland means “land of the Poles”—which 11. Polish King Kazimierz Jagiellończyk, could be a reference to the Polans, became known as the “Father of Europe.” Polanies, or Polonians, who were to Of his nine children, one became a eventually unite the territories of Poland cardinal, four became kings, one was and establish the first Polish national canonized, and the three daughters were dynasty, the Piast. married off to become mothers of the heirs of the greatest dynasties in Western 19. I am thankful to heavens that in all Europe. my instincts I stood Polish.- Friederick Nietzsche 12. In 1573, the Poles elected their king, Henry de Valois, but the new king decided 20. On September 12, 1989, the first to return to France immediately after his freely elected, noncommunist government coronation to rule as Henry III. in a Warsaw Pact state took office, led by Poland’s Nobel Peace Prize-winner Lech 13. The last Polish monarch, Stanisław Wałęsa, who was instrumental in Poniatowski, died in prison in 1798 in St. organizing the Solidarity movement of the Petersburg, Russia. 1980s.
14. On November 11, 1918, Poland 21. Adam Mickiewicz is the author of the declared itself a republic, independent of Polish national epic poem, Pan Tadeusz Russia. Poles have celebrated their (Master Thaddeus) in 1834, which Independence Day as a national holiday ironically begins with the verse “Lithuania, on November 11th since 1937. However, my fatherland!” public celebration of the holiday was forbidden from 1939–1989, while Poland 22. The 2,121-feet- (646-m-) high was under a Communist government. Warsaw Radio Mast in Konstantynów, Since the collapse of that government, Poland, was the world’s tallest structure Independence Day has become the most until it was intentionally collapsed on important Polish national holiday. August 8, 1991.
15. In 1922, Gabriel Narutowicz became 23. During World War II, the Polish town Poland’s first democratically elected of Oświeçim was the site of the Auschwitz- president. Birkenau Concentration Camps, where at least 1.1. million Nazi prisoners were 16. On September 1, 1939, the German killed by gassing with the pesticide Wehrmacht invaded Poland without any Zyklon-B and many more died in other prior declaration of war, thereby beginning ways. Ninety percent of the prisoners World War II. killed were Jewish. The first
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exterminations of prisoners took place in Kraków’s Jagiellonian University and after September 1941. that joined the Catholic priesthood. On his return home from studying in the famous 24. Gniezno was the very first capital of Renaissance universities in Padua and Poland. The Gniezno Cathedral has been Bologna, he became administrator of the the seat of the Polish archbishops since northern bishopric of A.D. 1000. The first Polish martyr, St. Adalbert, is entombed in Gniezno Warmia in 1497, also working as a doctor, Cathedral. lawyer, architect, and soldier. He lived for 15 years in Frombork, where he 25. On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus von constructed an observatory and undertook Stauffenberg made his courageous, his research, which he later wrote down in though unsuccessful, attempt to De revolutionibus orbium coelestium; its assassinate Hitler at the Wolf’s Lair, near revolutionary contention was that the sun, Kętrzyn, in northeastern Poland. The not Earth, was the center of the planetary Wolf’s Lair was Hitler’s main headquarters system. The work was published by along the German Eastern Front. church authorities in Nuremberg in 1543, the year Copernicus died. It was later 26. Russian composer Dmitri banned by the papacy, but re-allowed into Shostakovich, whose paternal Polish scholasticism in 1582 with Pope Gregory. grandfather fought in the 1863 insurrection against Russia and was exiled 32. Ludwig Zamenhof, from Białystok, to Siberia, is the most famous of the Poland, created the artificial language of descendant of those Poles exiled or killed Esperanto. His first primer, Dr. during that rebellion. Esperanto’s International Language, was published in 1887. The first world 27. It is estimated that 100 million pączki, Esperanto conference was held in France a Polish doughnut, are consumed every in 1905, the same year Zamenhof year on the Thursday before Ash published Fundamento de Esperanto, his Wednesday alone. main work, which became the basic Esperanto textbook and is still use today. 28. On November 3, 1939, the first death Universala Esperanto-Asocio has an sentence of World War II was passed by estimated worldwide membership of the Nazis on two Polish 500,000 speakers. There is still a thriving women who had torn down Nazi placards. Esperanto-speaking community in Białystok. 29. Poland’s Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of Quo Vadis and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is buried in Warsaw’s St. 33. Maria Curie was born in Warsaw, John’s Cathedral, which also happens to Poland on November 7, 1867 bear the dedication “Decapitation of the head of St. John.” 34. Marie Curie (Manya Sklodowska) was born in Warsaw (Warszawa), Poland, on 30. Napoleon Bonaparte met the Polish November 7, 1867. She moved to Paris in elite and his future mistress, Countess early 1880 and married Frenchman Pierre Maria Waleska, in the ballroom of Curie in 1895. With her husband, she Warsaw’s Zamek Królewski (Royal Castle) discovered the elements polonium (Po), in 1806. named after her native Poland, in the summer of 1898 and, soon thereafter, 31. Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj radium (Ra). She is credited for coining Kopernik) was born in 1473 in Toruń the term “radioactivity” and won her first (Thorn), Poland. He was educated at Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband
8 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com and another colleague, Henri Becquerel, in 40. Poles have won a total of 17 Nobel 1903. Following Pierre’s death in 1906, Prizes (more than Japan, China, India, or Marie was appointed to her husband’s Australia), including four Peace Prizes and professorship and was the first woman to five in Literature. teach at Paris’ Sorbonne University. She won a second Nobel Prize in 1911 for her 41. Polish-born Michael Marks arrived in research in the isolation of pure radium. Britain in the 1880s, fleeing persecution of
35. Thomas Keneally’s book Schindler’s the Jews in Russian-controlled Poland. In Ark is based on the life of Oskar Schindler, 1884, he set up a stall in Leeds’ Kirkgate a German industrialist who used his open market, selling household goods for business operations to shelter thousands the fixed price of a penny. He would later of Polish Jews during World War II. The go on to become cofounder, with Tom book won Britain’s prestigious Booker Spencer, of Marks & Spencer Department Prize in 1982 and was also made into an Stores, which officially opened in 1894. Academy Award-winning film, Schindler’s List, by Steven Spielberg. 42. Born in Kraków, Poland, Helena Rubinstein can take credit for the world’s 36. American author Leon Uris wrote the first waterproof mascara, and later for the bestselling novel Mila 18, based on the precursor of the mascara wands used tale of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of universally today, when she bought and 1843. Mila 18 was the Warsaw address of developed a business called “Mascara- the Jewish Resistance militia’s Matic.” The business was also the first to headquarters. develop a professional range of suntan products. 37. Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a celebrated pianist and composer who 43. Built in the 13th century, the became Poland’s first prime minister post Wieliczka Salt Mine is one of the world's World War II, as the country regained its oldest salt mines independence from Nazi Germany. 44.One of the world’s oldest salt mines, 38. Mikołaj Rej is the so-called Father of the Wieliczka Salt Mine, located in the Polish Literature, being the first author to southern Polish town of Wieliczka, was write exclusively in the Polish language. built in the 13th century and produced table salt until 2007. The mine’s 39. In October 1978, the Bishop of attractions include dozens of statues, Kraków, Poland, Cardinal Karol Józef three chapels, and an entire cathedral Wojtyla, became Pope John Paul II, the carved out of rock salt by the miners. 264th head of the Roman Catholic Approximately 1.2 million visitors walk through the salt mine annually. The mine Church on October 16, 1978 at 5:15 p.m. reaches a depth of 1,073 feet (327 m) A mountain climbing man of letters, and is over 178 miles (287 km) long. It is playwright, philosopher, intellectual, and often referred to as the “Underground Salt poet, Pope John Paul II is affirmed by Cathedral of Poland.” many as one of the chief architects of the Second Vatican Council and its document 45. The English writer Joseph Conrad was Gaudium es Spes, or Joy and Hope. He born Józef Teodor Konrad Nałęcz was canonized by the Roman Catholic Korzeniowski in Poland. He is most Church on April 27, 2014. famous for the novels Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.
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46. The highest mountain in Australia, the Soyuz 30 spacecraft in 1978 and Mount Kosciuszko, was named after Polish spending almost eight days on board the General Tadeusz Kościuszko, who fought Salyut 6 space station as part of the against the Russian Empire as well as in Intercosmos space program. the American Revolutionary War. 53. Although he spent his adult life in 47. Kazimierz (Casimir Pulaski) is a France, Polish-born composer Frédéric Polish-born nobleman and soldier who was François Chopin is Poland's most famous recruited by Benjamin Franklin and the composer. Marquis de Lafayette to fight with the colonists in the American Revolutionary 54. Frédéric François Chopin (Fryderyk War. He is sometimes called the “Father of Franciszek Szopen), is Poland’s most the American cavalry.” He was killed on famous composer. Chopin was born in October 9, 1779, during the Battle of Żelazowa Wola, Poland, in 1810. In the Savannah in Georgia. summer of 1830, he left Poland, never to return. He died in Paris in 1849 in his 48. In 1912, Casimir Funk, a Polish-born home at Place Vendôme 12 and is buried American biochemist, collected all in Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. published literature on the issue of vitamin deficiency. He was the first to 55. The International Fryderyk Chopin isolated niacin, later called Vitamin B3. He Piano Competition is one of the oldest also coined the term vital amine to music competitions in the world. It was describe the class of chemicals he and founded by Polish Professor Jerzy other researchers were studying, and the Zurawiew, and the first competition took word was later simplified to vitamin by place in January 1927 in the Warsaw 1920. Philharmonic in 1927. From then on, the competition was organized to take place 49. Stanisław Leszczyński, King of the every five years—except for 1942, when Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1704– the competition was interrupted by WWII. 1709 and 1733–1736, was the father-in- law of Louis XV of France. Leszczyński 56. The first Olympic medal in winter became the last Duke of Lorraine after sports won by a Polish national was a losing the throne of Poland. He gave his bronze won by skier Franciszek Gąsienica name to a World Heritage City square in Groń in 1956. Nancy, then the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine. 57. The beginnings of Polish football, or soccer, can be traced back to a seven- 50. Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius minute-long game played on July 15, published the earliest exact maps of the 1894. The first real Polish football club moon. was called Sława Lwów, later Czarni Lwów, formed in 1903. The first 51. In 1802, a Polish unit of soldiers international match Poland played was accompanied a French force sent to quell against Hungary in 1921 in Budapest, the slave uprising in the French colony of which Poland lost 0-1. Haiti. Descendants of the Polish soldiers still live in Haiti where they are known as 58. Poland contributed 144 fighter pilots negres blancs. In 1983, Pope John Paul II to the Allied effort during World War II, visited Haiti and acknowledged its place in most notably in the RAF 302 and 303 Polish history. squadrons. It is claimed they are responsible for shooting down 204 52. Mirosław Hermaszewski was the first German planes and probably another 35, Polish national in space, flying aboard which was 12%–14% of German losses during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
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59. Poland’s Stanisław Lem is known as 67. Barbara Piasecka Johnson, of Johnson one of the world’s greatest science fiction & Johnson Company fame, was born in writers. His novel Solaris was made into a Staniewicze, Poland. In 1971, she married movie in 2002. John Steward Johnson, who left her the 60. Poles consider the Battle of Monte bulk of his fortune when he died in 1983. Cassino, a Benedictine monastery in Italy, In 2007, she was listed on the Forbes 400 World’s Richest People List with an their most important military action during estimated net worth of $2.7 billion US, World War II. After repeated Allied failures making her the 149th richest person in to take the monastery, Second Polish the world. She died in Sobótka, Poland, in Corps commanded by General Władysław 2013, and was buried in Wrocław. Anders succeeded, although with heavy losses. The battle was increasingly 68. Poles drink, on average, 92 liters of commemorated after 1989, with streets in beer a year, which places Poland third in Poland being named after it. consumption in Europe behind Germany and the Czech Republic. 61.Polish-born Pola Negri, born Apolonia Chałupec, became a great Hollywood 69. The first surviving cookbook of Polish starlet, especially of the silent film era. recipes dates from 1682 with dishes Her most memorable roles were in influenced by strong Lithuanian, Tartar- historical epics such as Ann Boleyn and Turkish, and German influences. Madame DuBarry. 70. The Polish alphabet consists of 32 letters. 62. Krąków’s Jagiellonian University was established by King Casimir III the Great 71. Pierogi, or Polish dumplings, are one in 1364 and is the oldest university in of the most recognizable Polish dishes Poland and second oldest in Central outside of Poland. Europe. 72. Ronald Reagan named his 1982 63. Kraków has always been considered speech “Let Poland Be Poland” after the to be the “benchmark of Polish culture”. song, “Żeby Polska była Polską,” a protest song written in 1976 by Jan Pietrzak. 64. The American Academy of Motion Pictures recognized the outstanding merit 73. Poland has a history of producing of Andrzej Wajda, Poland’s most famous high-quality vodka for more than 500 contemporary film director, awarding him years. The first Polish vodkas appeared in a special Oscar for lifetime achievement in the 11th century when they were called March 2000. gorzalks and used as medicines.
65. Polish-born Mariusz Pudzianowski is a 74. The “Piwnica Swidnicka” is the oldest five-time winner of the “World’s Strongest restaurant in Europe. Man” title. 75. Located in Wrocław, the “Piwnica 66. President Woodrow Wilson set out Swidnicka” is the oldest restaurant in Fourteen Points in January 1918 as the Europe, open since 1275. basis for a peace settlement at the end of World War I. The Thirteenth Point laid 76. Pizza, or zapiekanka, in Poland does down the requirement for an independent not contain tomato sauce. It is a popular Poland, with secure access to the sea. street food served on a baguette with melted cheese, mushrooms, and ketchup.
11 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com 77. Inspired by and named for the original are actually very friendly and Woodstock rock festival, Pryzstanek accommodating to foreigners. There are Woodstock, an annual free rock music so many wonderful things, as well as festival in Poland, is the largest open-air some not so wonderful things you need to festival in Europe. know before moving to Poland. Allow us to assist you by providing some much 78. In Poland, bananas are peeled from needed advice below. the blossom end not the stem end.
FESTIVALS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
Poland’s National Days:
1-Jan New Year's Day 6-Jan Epiphany 27-Mar Easter Sunday 28-Mar Easter Monday 1-May State Holiday 3-May Constitution Day 15-May Pentecost Sunday 26-May Corpus Christi Assumption of the 15-Aug Blessed Virgin Mary 1-Nov All Saints' Day 11-Nov Independence Day
25-Dec Christmas Day 2nd Day of 26-Dec Christmas AMAZING FACTS
Poland is a country in Eastern Europe ABOUT POLAND located on the Baltic Sea. Relocating here will open your eyes to diverse cultures 1. It has a rich history, culture and that influenced it from long years of tradition. Poland is an old country with a invasion by Russia and Germany. In 1990, history that can be traced way back to the Poland became an independent country Middle Ages. With this long and rich and finally opened its curtains for the history come a very long standing and world to witness its beauty. As you walk colourful culture and tradition. the city centre, you will find yourself surrounded by magnificent bodies of water The architecture in Poland reflects its long and vast luscious green plains on the history with a wide spectrum of different north. European architecture styles, from Roman, Gothic, Baroque, Rococo, up to Poland's lifestyle is similar to most modernist. Even after World War II European countries; however, Poland is several old buildings and landmarks significantly cheaper than most countries survived in the country. Cities like Warsaw in Europe, making the standard living of and Gdansk have some of the best expats in the country quite good. Poland is architecture in the country. also one of the most interesting countries you can visit in Europe, and despite common misconceptions, Polish people
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It’s also the home of several famous names in the field of Philosophy and the Arts, such as:
Nicolaus Copernicus Daniel Schultz Frédéric Chopin
And five Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates, namely: The country has greatly preserved Europe’s primaeval forest, the Puszcza Henryk Sienkiewicz Bialowieska (Bialowieza Forest). It is also Władysław Reymont the home of the European Bisons that Isaac Bashevis Singer roam freely in the Bialowieza Forest; it’s Czesław Miłosz the only species in the world that has Wisława Szymborska been saved by regeneration breeding.
If you need another famous name in that 3. It has fantastic local food list, Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for two different sciences, Home of the famous Kielbasa sausage and namely Physics and Chemistry, was the notorious Polish Vodka, the local food originally Polish before she became a in Poland is anything but ordinary, and it naturalised French citizen. is definitely captivating. From a variety of cheese and sausages to traditional Most Polish are religious Catholics who dishes, like the Pierogi, an Eastern view Christmas as the most important European favourite, Poland’s cuisine is an holiday. "Dzielenie oplatkiem," a highlight adventure unlike any other cuisine in of this season, is the practice of breaking Europe. Chances are, you haven’t heard of and sharing a thin white wafer while most of these dishes unless you’re from people express their wishes for everyone. Eastern Europe yourself, but these heart- Although this is performed only once a warming dishes, which usually feature year, it is deeply ingrained in the Polish traditional methods of cooking, a wide culture. range of vegetables, bread, and meat are
the perfect merge of Eastern and Central 2. It’s exciting European cuisine. Food in Poland is more
than enough reason for some people to Poland is quite a big country, and as such, stay. it has more than a few characters depending on which region you’re in. 4. Friendly locals You’ll certainly never run out of things to do, as Poland has almost all types of Polish people are quite interesting, and scenic views such as: they are very friendly to foreigners. Locals
will gladly chat with you and help you - Beaches when you need it wherever you may be. - Mountains The Polish are known throughout Europe as kind-hearted people despite their often - Forests stern appearances. Most expats would tell - Lakes you that the best way to make friends is simply by sitting at a bar. Locals are
friendly enough to strike a conversation
up in public places.
13 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com The official language of Poland is Polish, 2. Shop during public holidays but most people can speak English, especially its younger citizens, so you But know that you will regret it. Most wouldn’t have much trouble getting by, people rush the stores to buy food and although, locals really appreciate it if you gifts or whatever they need for the holiday try to learn Polish, even through the use on the holiday itself. Queues can last for of common phrases for day-to-day about 30 minutes to an hour and you activities. might get into fights over a can of beans. It’s totally a local thing to do, but you The Polish has a strong familial attitude, should know better and just shop before and take joy in the company of extended the holidays. families. In fact, one's social network in 3. You Expect the Unexpected. Poland typically consists of family members while friends or non-relatives Poland is also known for being quite can only come second. This makes them unpredictable, primarily because it is a very close-knit and sometimes territorial. country known for its wealth of biological life. Its green campaigns are famous especially for eco-friendly tourists and expats who can’t get over the country’s successful exploits as nature’s defenders, so don’t be surprised if you happen to be riding the train with a horse or a goat.
4. Local salaries are a bit low
Salaries in Poland are quite low compared to other countries in Europe, especially other EU members, which is why so many Polish nationals choose to live in other EU countries than stay in Poland. Taxes are also a bit high in Poland as it makes up more than 30% of the country’s GDP.
HOW TO LIVE LIKE Good jobs with relatively higher salaries can be found in the more commercial A LOCAL cities, such as Warsaw, Krakow, and Gdansk. 1. They don’t serve milk in a milk bar The Ministry of Labour has announced that the monthly minimum wage in Poland for Yes, that’s right. Milk Bars or “Bar full-time employees is PLN mleczny” in Poland are not literally bars 1,850 gross starting January 1st 2016. that serve milk, but rather, they are local cafeterias that serve traditional Polish However, the cost of living in Poland is dishes for cheap. Milk bars are the usual quite low compared to other EU countries restaurants that workers frequent for as well, which means that the purchasing lunch on a regular work day. Milk bars power an expat can have in Poland is gained prominence during economic higher than the rest of the countries in depression and World War II in Poland. Europe. Poland ranks 12th out of 50 in Time Magazine’s 50 Cheapest Countries to Live, published February of 2016.
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5. Save up for vacations, they have 2. Here are the requirements you a lot of holidays would need for a work permit in Poland: Poland is one of the oldest countries in Europe with a very rich culture, history, - Completed application form and tradition, therefore, they have quite a - Undamaged high resolution, coloured 35 lot of national days to remember and mm x 45mm photographs celebrate. Most holidays are related to - Original travel document religion, as the Poles are very traditional - Copy of valid travel document and religious. They celebrate a total of 13 - A document from the employer stating official national days a year, not counting that the position cannot be occupied by a famous traditions and festivals such as the Polish national or an EU national (based All Saints Day, where Poles visit their on unemployment registers and job deceased loved ones and decorate their seekers) graves on the 1st of November. - Stamp duty payment confirmation
3. Travel visa
VISA AND Poland is part of the Schengen scheme in the EU, therefore, as we mentioned IMMIGRATION earlier, EU residents do not need to apply for a visa to enter Poland. Non-EU What you need to know residents who wish to visit Poland as their primary Schengen country, need to 1. Know your immigration provide the following documents to apply requirements for the Schengen visa in the Polish Embassy of their country of residence: As a member of the EU, Poland has lenient immigration policies for other EU - Travel Document (valid at least three members. All foreigners from the EU can months after your planned departure in freely enter, work, and live in Poland. the Schengen territory, with at least 2 Non-EU foreigners can get a work permit blank pages, issued within the last ten through a Polish employer. years)
Work permit - Signed, completed visa application form
The employer will then have to process - Visa processing fee the application to the Voivod Officewhere the employer’s company is registered. It’s - Biometric photo worth noting that even though the process for a work permit application is straight- - Supplementary documents stating the forward, it’s not easy. The Voivod office following: will only grant a work permit to foreigners if the employers can provide proof that - Details of planned accommodation; there are no Polish candidates suitable for Proof of sufficient financial funds (bank the position. So unless, it’s for a highly statements, credit cards); Purpose of specialised work, or you’re being visit; Proof of intent to leave after the visa transferred by your company, it’s not very expiration (tenancy agreements, proof of easy to find a job in Poland. employment, business ownership etc.)
Travel insurance (covers health) of at least EUR 30,000 valid for the duration of your stay in the Schengen territory
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4. The healthcare system is not the Pet relocation best, so find an alternative All pets entering Poland should have a Health and protection services can be microchip as a form of identification and provided by the government, if you are rabies vaccination 21 days before import. employed or if you are a dependent of an If your pet is coming from an EU country, employed person. Otherwise, healthcare is you must make sure that its Pet Passport not free and not cheap. It is a is updated. An Annex IV Form for Poland requirement for foreigners to have a should be issued ten days before entry by travel health insurance before entering a licensed veterinarian for domestic Poland, and it is advisable for expats in animals from non-EU states. the country to get international health insurance as the medical costs in the Car shipping country can be quite expensive. The medical care and facilities are also not of Warsaw is the only city that has a metro the highest quality in Poland, which is why system, but there are trams, trolley buses people who can afford it tend to seek and buses that will serve as your medical treatments outside Poland in transportation to other districts. If you nearby countries with better facilities such prefer to drive, you need to be extra as Germany or Czech Republic. careful because most major roads in Poland are considered to be hazardous. International Shipping and Removal You can also import your car as long as to Poland you provide these documents before shipment:
- Passport - Residence Permit - Proof of Ownership - Title - Registration from country of origin - Purchase Invoice
Despite Poland’s turbulent history, it rose
unscathed and remained a pleasant With all the important things in your mind, country. You will find yourself living in a it will be easier for you to contact a nation blessed with cheerful communities shipping and removal company that can and friendly locals. help you in bringing your belongings to
Poland. They provided door to door Poland’s Visa Requirements service where they will facilitate the whole moving process until your packages are safely delivered to your new home. The Are you considering a move to Poland? The country’s vibrant cities, varied average transit time to the Port of Gdansk landscapes, and growing economy can be is 11-16 business days, depending on your country of origin. Once the an attractive option for expats. Take a look at our guide on Poland to find containers arrive, local customs officers information on visas, permits, will conduct an inspection of the cargos. accommodation, and more. With our help,
relocating to Poland will be easy and For more information about Poland’s stress free. import regulations, go to this guide.
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Applying for Your Visa
In order to apply for a long-term visa (D), you need to submit at least the following documents:
- Visa application form, duly completed - Valid passport until at least 3 months after planned departure from Poland - Biometric, passport size picture(s) - Payment proof of visa fee
- Proof of travel insurance or international Getting ready for Permits - medical insurance
Visas — From Type A to D - Proof of sufficient financial means - Document stating the purpose of visit As a non-EU/EEA or non-Swiss citizen, if you wish to live and work in Poland - Document confirming the necessity of a legally, you need to apply for a valid visa long-term stay. with the responsible authorities. In order to do so, you need to turn to the nearest Polish Embassy or How to Get Your Work Permit Consulate before moving to Poland. In some case, nationals from specific non-EU In addition, you will have to secure a work countries, so-called third-country permit and submit it with your visa nationals, do not need a visa, provided application. Your future employer needs to they are planning on staying in Poland for apply for a work permit on your behalf. It less than 90 days and do not intend to usually takes around a month, two in work. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has more complex circumstances, for your a list of visa-free countries on their work permit to be issued. In the case of website. an inter-company transfer, for instance, expats are exempt from the work permit Polish missions issue three different types regulation. For more information on work of visas: Airport Transit Visas (A), Short- permits and cases of exemption, please Stay (Schengen) Visas (C), and National refer to the Polish Department of Foreign Long-Stay Visas (D). Expats whose Affairs. assignments exceed 90 days need to apply for a long-term visa, which also How to Apply for your resident permit allows them to visit other Schengen countries. After your arrival in Poland, you need to apply for a temporary residence permit if For short-term visits, you need only apply you wish to stay longer than 90 days. This for a Schengen visa and are then more or is also the case if you are exempt from less free to travel between participating acquiring a visa and/or work permit. You countries. This is because Poland is part of have to submit your application to the the Schengen Agreement. Schengen visas responsiblemunicipality or Voivode are valid for three months. However, in (Wojewoda) within the first month of your stay.
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These are the documents which are typically required in order to apply for this A residence permit is granted for the permit: duration of your stay but never for more
than two years. After living in Poland over - Completed application form a prolonged period of time, it is possible - Four up-to-date passport sized photos to apply for a settlement permit or a long- term EC residence permit. These permits - Three copies of your valid passport are subject to stricter requirements. More - Proof of administrative fee payment information can be found on the website - Work permit or a written statement from of the Polish Department of Foreign employer (if exempt from requiring one) Affairs.
- Work contract Your residence card open borders - Documents confirming the cost of Once you have successfully submitted residence and an official lease or other your residence permit application, you will legal title enabling you to occupy the receive a residence card. Your valid residence card serves as confirmation of dwelling in which you live
- Confirmation of registration of your identity during your stay in Poland. Along with your travel document, it temporary residence enables you to cross the border and travel - Proof of health insurance to other European countries without having to obtain a visa. If you have - Documents proving that you have a applied for your residence permit from steady income with which to support abroad, you should receive your residence card upon entry. Make sure to collect your yourself card in person at the responsible voivode.
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COST OF LIVING Polish Złoty
Conversion Table against World Currencies
Currency Units per Currency Name ▲▼ PLN per Unit Code ▲▼ PLN USD US Dollar 0.279883 3.572917 EUR Euro 0.234667 4.261354 GBP British Pound 0.206323 4.846759 INR Indian Rupee 18.79888 0.053195 AUD Australian Dollar 0.371905 2.688859 CAD Canadian Dollar 0.359713 2.779996 SGD Singapore Dollar 0.373676 2.676114 CHF Swiss Franc 0.280553 3.564394 MYR Malaysian Ringgit 1.104591 0.905312 JPY Japanese Yen 30.55257 0.03273 CNY Chinese Yuan Renminbi 1.782069 0.561145 NZD New Zealand Dollar 0.398339 2.510424 THB Thai Baht 8.916436 0.112152 HUF Hungarian Forint 73.81173 0.013548 AED Emirati Dirham 1.027872 0.972884 HKD Hong Kong Dollar 2.197048 0.455156
19 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com Currency Units per Currency Name ▲▼ PLN per Unit Code ▲▼ PLN MXN Mexican Peso 5.443935 0.183691 ZAR South African Rand 3.508994 0.284982 PHP Philippine Peso 14.52571 0.068843 SEK Swedish Krona 2.468661 0.405078 IDR Indonesian Rupiah 3925.336 0.000255 SAR Saudi Arabian Riyal 1.049562 0.952778 BRL Brazilian Real 0.994775 1.005253 TRY Turkish Lira 1.193271 0.838033 KES Kenyan Shilling 28.04131 0.035662 KRW South Korean Won 302.3813 0.003307 EGP Egyptian Pound 4.952879 0.201903 IQD Iraqi Dinar 331.718 0.003015 NOK Norwegian Krone 2.253111 0.443831 KWD Kuwaiti Dinar 0.084529 11.83029 RUB Russian Ruble 17.55174 0.056974 DKK Danish Krone 1.74843 0.571942 PKR Pakistani Rupee 32.31635 0.030944 ILS Israeli Shekel 1.010001 0.990098 PLN Polish Zloty 1 1 QAR Qatari Riyal 1.018775 0.981571 XAU Gold Ounce 0.000213 4694.715 OMR Omani Rial 0.107615 9.292373 COP Colombian Peso 788.4085 0.001268 CLP Chilean Peso 176.15 0.005677 TWD Taiwan New Dollar 8.351239 0.119743 ARS Argentine Peso 6.120712 0.16338 CZK Czech Koruna 5.99028 0.166937 VND Vietnamese Dong 6373.02 0.000157 MAD Moroccan Dirham 2.622852 0.381264 JOD Jordanian Dinar 0.198437 5.039376 BHD Bahraini Dinar 0.105236 9.50244 XOF CFA Franc 153.9316 0.006496 LKR Sri Lankan Rupee 44.08973 0.022681 UAH Ukrainian Hryvnia 7.37349 0.135621 NGN Nigerian Naira 100.7577 0.009925 TND Tunisian Dinar 0.701371 1.425778 UGX Ugandan Shilling 1038.919 0.000963 RON Romanian Leu 1.09292 0.91498 BDT Bangladeshi Taka 23.66536 0.042256 PEN Peruvian Sol 0.919176 1.08793 GEL Georgian Lari 0.687869 1.453766
20 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com Currency Units per Currency Name ▲▼ PLN per Unit Code ▲▼ PLN XAF Central African CFA Franc BEAC 153.9316 0.006496 FJD Fijian Dollar 0.580758 1.721888 VEF Venezuelan Bolívar 2.795335 0.357739 BYN Belarusian Ruble 0.563952 1.7732 HRK Croatian Kuna 1.737062 0.575685 UZS Uzbekistani Som 2260.058 0.000442 BGN Bulgarian Lev 0.458969 2.178796 DZD Algerian Dinar 32.54959 0.030722 IRR Iranian Rial 11762.04 8.5E-05 DOP Dominican Peso 13.89331 0.071977 ISK Icelandic Krona 28.58664 0.034981 XAG Silver Ounce 0.016976 58.90556 CRC Costa Rican Colon 159.1854 0.006282 SYP Syrian Pound 144.2021 0.006935 LYD Libyan Dinar 0.376426 2.656565 JMD Jamaican Dollar 34.84744 0.028697 MUR Mauritian Rupee 9.747255 0.102593 GHS Ghanaian Cedi 1.261113 0.792951 AOA Angolan Kwanza 64.47676 0.015509 UYU Uruguayan Peso 8.164098 0.122488 AFN Afghan Afghani 19.72006 0.05071 LBP Lebanese Pound 421.9241 0.00237 XPF CFP Franc 28.00324 0.03571 TTD Trinidadian Dollar 1.862524 0.536906 TZS Tanzanian Shilling 638.3822 0.001566 ALL Albanian Lek 29.87415 0.033474 XCD East Caribbean Dollar 0.7556 1.323452 GTQ Guatemalan Quetzal 2.053538 0.486964 NPR Nepalese Rupee 30.21921 0.033092 BOB Bolivian Bolíviano 1.939891 0.515493 ZWD Zimbabwean Dollar 101.2898 0.009873 BBD Barbadian or Bajan Dollar 0.559767 1.786459 CUC Cuban Convertible Peso 0.279883 3.572917 LAK Lao Kip 2328.846 0.000429 BND Bruneian Dollar 0.373676 2.676114 BWP Botswana Pula 2.771109 0.360866 HNL Honduran Lempira 6.623173 0.150985 PYG Paraguayan Guarani 1569.039 0.000637 ETB Ethiopian Birr 7.702389 0.12983 NAD Namibian Dollar 3.508994 0.284982 PGK Papua New Guinean Kina 0.910225 1.09863
21 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com Currency Units per Currency Name ▲▼ PLN per Unit Code ▲▼ PLN SDG Sudanese Pound 5.082993 0.196734 MOP Macau Pataca 2.26296 0.441899 NIO Nicaraguan Cordoba 8.765414 0.114085 BMD Bermudian Dollar 0.279883 3.572917 KZT Kazakhstani Tenge 92.22263 0.010843 PAB Panamanian Balboa 0.279883 3.572917 BAM Bosnian Convertible Marka 0.458969 2.178796 GYD Guyanese Dollar 58.769 0.017016 YER Yemeni Rial 69.95505 0.014295 MGA Malagasy Ariary 902.633 0.001108 KYD Caymanian Dollar 0.229625 4.354922 MZN Mozambican Metical 16.7724 0.059622 RSD Serbian Dinar 27.72531 0.036068 SCR Seychellois Rupee 3.852602 0.259565 AMD Armenian Dram 136.0765 0.007349 SBD Solomon Islander Dollar 2.171335 0.460546 AZN Azerbaijan Manat 0.475802 2.101716 SLL Sierra Leonean Leone 2149.501 0.000465 TOP Tongan Pa'anga 0.619879 1.613217 BZD Belizean Dollar 0.564037 1.772932 MWK Malawian Kwacha 201.6598 0.004959 GMD Gambian Dalasi 13.19628 0.075779 BIF Burundian Franc 498.2408 0.002007 SOS Somali Shilling 162.3325 0.00616 HTG Haitian Gourde 17.82845 0.05609 GNF Guinean Franc 2532.958 0.000395 MVR Maldivian Rufiyaa 4.385695 0.228014 MNT Mongolian Tughrik 670.1031 0.001492 CDF Congolese Franc 442.1876 0.002261 STN Sao Tomean Dobra 5.759859 0.173615 TJS Tajikistani Somoni 2.509602 0.39847 KPW North Korean Won 251.8679 0.00397 MMK Burmese Kyat 375.2359 0.002665 LSL Basotho Loti 3.508994 0.284982 LRD Liberian Dollar 36.98567 0.027037 KGS Kyrgyzstani Som 19.23831 0.05198 GIP Gibraltar Pound 0.206323 4.846759 XPT Platinum Ounce 0.000305 3274.741 MDL Moldovan Leu 4.642579 0.215397 CUP Cuban Peso 7.416908 0.134827 KHR Cambodian Riel 1132.674 0.000883
22 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com Currency Units per Currency Name ▲▼ PLN per Unit Code ▲▼ PLN MKD Macedonian Denar 14.41383 0.069378 VUV Ni-Vanuatu Vatu 30.81094 0.032456 MRU Mauritanian Ouguiya 9.949712 0.100505 ANG Dutch Guilder 0.50168 1.993301 SZL Swazi Lilangeni 3.508994 0.284982 CVE Cape Verdean Escudo 25.87675 0.038645 SRD Surinamese Dollar 2.083746 0.479905 XPD Palladium Ounce 0.00029 3447.128 SVC Salvadoran Colon 2.448979 0.408333 BSD Bahamian Dollar 0.279883 3.572917 XDR IMF Special Drawing Rights 0.195942 5.103561 RWF Rwandan Franc 239.2721 0.004179 AWG Aruban or Dutch Guilder 0.500991 1.996043 DJF Djiboutian Franc 49.63074 0.020149 BTN Bhutanese Ngultrum 18.79888 0.053195 KMF Comorian Franc 115.4487 0.008662 WST Samoan Tala 0.718003 1.392752 SPL Seborgan Luigino 0.046647 21.4375 ERN Eritrean Nakfa 4.19825 0.238194 FKP Falkland Island Pound 0.206323 4.846759 SHP Saint Helenian Pound 0.206323 4.846759 JEP Jersey Pound 0.206323 4.846759 TMT Turkmenistani Manat 0.979544 1.020883 TVD Tuvaluan Dollar 0.371905 2.688859 IMP Isle of Man Pound 0.206323 4.846759 GGP Guernsey Pound 0.206323 4.846759 ZMW Zambian Kwacha 2.819635 0.354656
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Cost of Living in Poland
Description Cost Range Restaurants Meal, Inexpensive 20.00 zł 15.00-30.00 Restaurant Meal for 2 People, Mid-range 100.00 zł 70.00-120.00 Restaurant, Three- course McMeal at McDonalds (or Equivalent Combo 18.00 zł 15.00-20.00 Meal) Domestic Beer (0.5 7.00 zł 5.00-9.00 liter draught) Imported Beer (0.33 7.00 zł 4.00-10.00 liter bottle) Cappuccino (regular) 7.86 zł 5.00-10.00 Coke/Pepsi (0.33 liter 3.83 zł 2.00-6.00 bottle) Water (0.33 liter 2.93 zł 1.50-5.00 bottle) Markets Milk (regular), (1 2.38 zł 2.00-3.00 liter) Loaf of Fresh White 2.72 zł 2.00-3.50 Bread (500g) Rice (white), (1kg) 3.19 zł 2.00-5.00 Eggs (regular) (12) 7.14 zł 4.80-10.00 Local Cheese (1kg) 21.89 zł 18.00-30.00 Chicken Breasts (Boneless, Skinless), 15.48 zł 13.00-18.00 (1kg) Beef Round (1kg) (or Equivalent Back Leg 31.54 zł 20.00-40.00 Red Meat) Apples (1kg) 2.86 zł 2.00-4.00 Banana (1kg) 4.28 zł 3.50-5.00 Oranges (1kg) 4.52 zł 3.99-6.00 Tomato (1kg) 5.20 zł 4.00-8.00 Potato (1kg) 1.66 zł 1.00-2.50 Onion (1kg) 2.00 zł 1.00-3.00 Lettuce (1 head) 2.84 zł 2.00-4.00 Water (1.5 liter 1.79 zł 1.00-2.20 bottle) Bottle of Wine (Mid- 20.00 zł 15.00-30.00 Range)
24 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com Description Cost Range Domestic Beer (0.5 2.98 zł 2.50-4.00 liter bottle) Imported Beer (0.33 4.07 zł 3.00-6.00 liter bottle) Cigarettes 20 Pack 15.00 zł 15.00-16.00 (Marlboro) Transportation One-way Ticket (Local 3.40 zł 3.00-4.40 Transport) Monthly Pass 99.00 zł 89.00-110.00 (Regular Price) Taxi Start (Normal 7.00 zł 5.00-8.00 Tariff) Taxi 1km (Normal 2.40 zł 2.00-2.80 Tariff) Taxi 1hour Waiting 35.00 zł 25.60-40.00 (Normal Tariff) Gasoline (1 liter) 4.63 zł 4.39-5.00 Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (Or 70,000.00 zł 61,500.00-80,000.00 Equivalent New Car) Toyota Corolla 1.6l 97kW Comfort (Or 73,791.60 zł 65,000.00-83,000.00 Equivalent New Car) Utilities (Monthly) Basic (Electricity, Heating, Cooling, 625.78 zł 340.00-935.00 Water, Garbage) for 85m2 Apartment 1 min. of Prepaid Mobile Tariff Local 0.24 zł 0.15-0.30 (No Discounts or Plans) Internet (60 Mbps or More, Unlimited Data, 50.94 zł 40.00-70.00 Cable/ADSL) Sports And Leisure Fitness Club, Monthly 105.90 zł 80.00-150.00 Fee for 1 Adult Tennis Court Rent (1 47.32 zł 30.00-70.00 Hour on Weekend) Cinema, International 25.00 zł 20.00-30.00 Release, 1 Seat Childcare Preschool (or Kindergarten), Full 1,048.83 zł 600.00-2,000.00 Day, Private, Monthly for 1 Child
25 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com Description Cost Range International Primary School, Yearly for 1 47,023.29 zł 17,000.00-75,000.00 Child Clothing And Shoes 1 Pair of Jeans (Levis 259.64 zł 150.00-329.00 501 Or Similar) 1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, 129.87 zł 89.00-200.00 H&M, ...) 1 Pair of Nike Running Shoes (Mid- 265.93 zł 200.00-350.00 Range) 1 Pair of Men Leather 292.19 zł 200.00-400.00 Business Shoes Rent Per Month Apartment (1 bedroom) in City 1,803.66 zł 1,200.00-2,500.00 Centre Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of 1,381.00 zł 880.00-2,000.00 Centre Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City 2,960.59 zł 1,700.00-4,500.00 Centre Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of 2,220.59 zł 1,450.00-3,000.00 Centre Buy Apartment Price Price per Square Meter to Buy 7,547.32 zł 4,400.00-12,000.00 Apartment in City Centre Price per Square Meter to Buy 5,368.73 zł 3,500.00-7,300.00 Apartment Outside of Centre Salaries And Financing Average Monthly Net 3,309.18 zł Salary (After Tax) Mortgage Interest Rate in Percentages 3.77 3.00-5.00 (%), Yearly, for 20 Years Fixed-Rate
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HEALTH AND SICKNESS
Vaccines and Medicine
What Injections do you need?
Travel Health Notices
There are no notices currently in effect for Poland
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LEARNING THE LANGUAGE
Key phrases to know in the Polish before you arrive to Poland
General Conversation
English Polish
yes tak
no nie
please / you’re proszę welcome
you’re very proszę bardzo welcome
thank you dziękuję
thank you very dziękuję bardzo much
thanks dzięki
Excuse me! przepraszam
Communication
English Polish
I understand. Rozumiem.
I don’t understand. Nie rozumiem.
Hello (on the phone) / I beg your Słucham? pardon?
What does that Co to znaczy? mean?
I don’t know. Nie wiem.
I don’t speak Polish. Nie mówię po polsku.
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I speak a little Mówię trochę po polsku. Polish.
Do you speak Czy mówisz po angielsku? english?
Do you speak
english? (formal, Czy mówi pan po angielsku? when talking to a
man)
Do you speak english? (formal, Czy mówi pani po angielsku? when talking to a woman)
Yes, I do speak Tak, mówię po angielsku. english.
No, I don’t speak Nie, nie mówię po angielsku. english.
Please talk more Proszę mówić wolniej. slowly.
Introducing oneself
English Polish
Hello / Good day! Dzień dobry!
Hi! / Bye! Cześć!
Goodbye! Do widzenia!
Nice to meet you! Miło mi cię poznać.
Jak się masz? / How are you? Co słychać?
Good, thank you. Dobrze, dziękuję.
I’m well, thanks. U mnie w porządku, dzięki.
Not bad, thanks. Nieźle, dzięki.
Very bad. Fatalnie.
What’s your name? Jak się nazywasz?
My name is […]. Nazywam się […].
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What’s your first Jak masz na imię? name?
My first name is […]. Mam na imię […].
How old are you? Ile masz lat?
I’m […] years old. Mam […] lat.
LEARNING POLISH
The Best Resources for Learning Polish
Finding good learning materials for Polish Apps and online courses is no easy task. Sure, a quick Google search should be enough to find dozens of Language learning apps: relevant sites, but how do you tell the best resources from the less useful ones? Duolingo The Polish for English speakers course at As it turns out, the most valuable Duolingo has over 2 million learners, and materials are not necessarily the ones that with good reason. Duolingo provides a get the most exposure or the highest price very smooth learning experience, which tag. Moreover, finding true gems requires makes it a great introduction to the not just effort, but also a good language. It’s really good at teaching understanding of the subject—something vocabulary and solid at teaching that, as a learner, you probably haven’t grammar—but don’t expect it to teach you yet acquired. all the necessary competencies on its own.
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Clozemaster Mówić po polsku Practicing with Clozemaster is the best The site contains dozens of articles way to keep in touch with the Polish explaining various aspects of the Polish language in a realistic context. The app language, with a particular focus on teaches you the language through mass grammar. It doesn’t have a linear exposure to thousands of Polish structure, so you can progress through its sentences—your task is to fill in the gaps articles in whatever order suits you best. with the right words. Thanks to some nifty features such as Cloze-Listening, Cloze- Polish course at Wikibooks Reading and The course is rather old and has a lot of Grammar Challenges, Clozemaster lets gaps, but it is still worth a quick look. It you work on a wider range of crucial has plenty of language skills than most other apps. tables illustrating the key declension and conjugation patterns in Polish. Memrise If you want to learn vocabulary with pre- Alphabet and pronunciation: made flashcard decks, Memrise is probably your best choice. The Memrise- A Foreigner’s Guide to the Polish branded courses Polish 1-7 are particularly Alphabet worth recommending, as they introduce A unique animated presentation, devoted new vocabulary in a natural progression to the Polish alphabet, its pronunciation and include really good recordings. You and various trivia about the language. might also browse it for courses that fit Highly recommended for learners at any your specific vocabulary needs, stage. A non-multimedia version is from Dating in Polish to Polish Sayings available here. and Swearwords. Polish Alphabet & Pronunciation at Mówić po polsku A really useful article presenting all the Polish letters along with audio recordings. It even comes with a pronunciation video. Perfect for those who need to hear all the default sounds of all the letters in isolation.
Polish alphabet at Wikipedia A neat table listing all the letters of the Polish alphabet, their usual pronunciation, Clozemaster helps you acquire Polish and rough English equivalents. Especially vocabulary and grammar patterns by useful for those familiar with the exposing you to real sentences and International Phonetic Alphabet. providing immediate feedback Polish for English speakers: writing Website courses: and pronunciation (video playlist) A 40-minute playlist with seven videos Speak-Polish.net introducing all the letters of Polish A language blog with explainer-style posts alphabet one-by-one. It covers all the arranged into a quick Polish course important details and provides a lot of covering most of the basics. You can find examples. Highly recommended. the table of contents on the right side of the page.
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Forvo: An online pronunciation dictionary PWN Polish Dictionary: Probably the which lets you search for any Polish word most reliable monolingual Polish and hear it pronounced by native dictionary, and the default choice for speakers. many Poles.
Phrasebooks
English-Polish Phrase Guide A 111-page phrasebook published online by the linguist Oscar E. Swan. A great starting point covering all the important subject areas.
Forvo A nice collection of phrases used in several common contexts: getting around, shopping, banking, and so on. All Forvo’s
phrases come with audio recordings. The Foreigner’s Guide to Polish alphabet walks you through all the Polish letters, bab.la Phrases digraphs and trigraphs A very useful phrase bank which puts emphasis on expressions used in formal Vocabulary and Grammar Dictionaries situations (letters, business, the academia, etc.) Note that it displays bab.la English-Spanish phrases by default—to A reliable dictionary with some additional switch to Polish, choose English-Polish features. Bab.la displays examples of from the dropdown list or change actual sentences using the searched word, “spanish” in the address bar to “polish”. as well as their English translations. Travel Polish PONS A phrasebook aimed at travelers. All Another solid dictionary. Provides many entries come with recordings. examples of idioms and collocations with the searched word. Vocabulary practice
English Wiktionary Vocabulary at Polski na wynos The English dictionary has quite a lot of A huge selection of PDF vocabulary Polish vocabulary (though not as much as worksheets covering various topics, from the Polish version). It’s really good when “Money” to “Unusual Vegetables”. Very you’re looking for additional grammatical similar to what you would expect to find in information about a word—it often a good textbook. includes conjugation tables, usage notes, and derived terms, as well as audio Words and Pictures at BaltoSlav recordings with pronunciation. A simple vocabulary game which requires you to choose the correct picture for the Polish Wiktionary word given. Good for building visual Pretty much the same as the English one, associations. but has more words and (usually) more detailed entries. It helps if you’re familiar with Polish grammatical terminology. If not, check the English Wiktionary first.
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Digital Textbooks:
Polish Grammar in a Nutshell by Oscar E. Swan—a popular textbook explaining the fundamentals of Polish grammar, available online for free. It has several flaws: the explanations are very technical, some usage examples are off, and it is definitely not beginner-friendly.
Nevertheless, it is one of the most extensive textbook-style grammar resources for Polish, which makes it very useful as a reference.
A Grammar of Contemporary Polish by Oscar E. Swan—another comprehensive guide to Polish grammar, even more technical and detailed than Polish Grammar in A Nutshell. If you think some grammatical feature of Polish isn’t explained anywhere on the Internet, try searching in this book before you give up. First Year Polish Lessons by Oscar E. Swan—yet another resource for learners 301 Polish Verbs—as the title would published by Professor Swan, definitely suggest, the book lists 301 common Polish more beginner-friendly than his other verbs and provides full conjugation tables materials. The course is divided into 12 for each of them. Comes with quizzes to lessons teaching grammar and vocabulary help you test yourself on what you’ve with example sentences and dialogs. learned. If you can commit to carefully Some lessons are a bit quirky, but it is still studying the tables and usage examples, worth recommending, especially as a free this book can be one of the best ways to resource. Comes with a nice glossary. internalize Polish conjugation patterns.
A Concise Polish Grammar by Ronald Polski, Krok Po Kroku—a series of F. Feldstein—a “grammatical sketch of textbooks teaching Polish across all levels. Polish” on 114 pages. Quite technical, with The textbooks are divided into units, each a focus on pronunciation and grammar. with its reading/listening material and Oscar E. Swan’s Polish Grammar in a exercises. Strangely enough, the Nutshell is full of comprehensive grammar instructions are always given in Polish, explanations even in the A1 level textbook.
Textbooks (paper): Polish: A Comprehensive Grammar— definitely one of the best reference guides Polish for Dummies—praised by many to Polish grammar available on the learners as a good all-around introduction market. Not only does it covers pretty to the language. Don’t let the title fool much all the important aspects of Polish you: though it is less technical than your grammar, but also explains them clearly average textbook and more simplistic. and thoroughly across 672 pages. Comes with an audio CD.
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Frequency lists: related to chronology and science ranking higher than you would expect. 3000 most common words in Polish at Ezglot—a frequency list based on the 5000 most used Polish words at contents of Polish Wikipedia articles. A bit Wiktionary—a frequency list compiled skewed towards the typical subject matter from a large database of Polish movie of encyclopedic articles, with some words subtitles. The choice of source material Polish noun cases at Wikibooks—a results in some outliers, but it is still quite page from the Polish Wikibooks course reliable overall. attempting at explaining the contexts in which each grammatical case should be Grammar explainers: used. It is far from being a complete list of all usage cases, but still covers a lot of Polski z Anią—a series of ten videos ground. explaining grammatical cases, tenses, and some aspects of Polish syntax. Polski na wynos has dozens of neat Recommended for both beginners and grammar tables in PDF format which you more advanced learners. Subtitles can print out and use for reference available in Polish and English. Other useful tools: Grammar at Polski na wynos — a very rich library of concise grammar explainers LanguageTool—a pretty advanced in the form of tables and diagrams. The spelling checker. Paste in your Polish text resources are mostly in Polish, but some and click “Sprawdź tekst”—the tool will come with additional English captions. highlight potential grammar, spelling and punctuation errors and suggest how to Polish Grammar Explainers at correct them. Clozemaster Blog—a series of articles deconstructing various aspects of Polish Cooljugator—a “smart conjugator” that grammar: prepositions, personal will show you a given verb’s forms in all pronouns, verbs of motion, and so on. All tenses. It also has usage examples concepts are illustrated with many sourced from movie subtitles. example sentences and helpful tables. Polish conjugation at bab.la—another Polish Grammar at Mówić po polsku— reliable conjugation tool. a table of contents with all the grammar- related articles published at Mówić po Linguee—an online dictionary that polsku. Has separate explainers for most doubles as a database of Polish-English parts of speech, grammatical cases and translations. Tremendously useful as a verb tenses. source of idiomatic expressions in more formal contexts (publishing, marketing, Declension sheets for Polish nouns law, etc.)—simply enter an English and adjectives—declension sheets expression and see if you can find a Polish showing the default endings of Polish equivalent. nouns and adjectives in all grammatical cases. You can print them out and use Reverso Context—a search engine that them for reference. works similarly to Linguee. Typing in an English word or entire phrase will show its Masculine, feminine, and neuter noun equivalents in Polish translations. The declension at Wikibooks—another set database is mainly sourced from movie of declension tables with several examples subtitles, so it can provide valuable for each gender. context for various colloquial expressions.
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Synonimy.pl—a Polish thesaurus, helpful various systems. Use it to create your own when looking for synonyms of particular flashcards and always keep Polish Polish words. vocabulary and grammar fresh in your memory. Anki—excellent spaced repetition software, available free of charge for
SubLearning—an intriguing online tool which quizzes you on the Polish translations of English movie subtitles (or the other way around). You can choose a specific movie or have it pick a random one.
Reverso Context displays movie subtitles containing the searched word along with their English translation, making it a great tool for researching colloquial language
Reading materials: Free e-books at Legimi—a selection of free e-books at the Polish platform Free e-books Legimi, has many classics of Polish and world literature. A free sign-up is required Wolne Lektury—a free online library to download the books. with thousands of Polish works which have fallen into public domain. Most of Chmura Czytania—a catalog of free e- the books available here are over 100 books in Polish. Chiefly consists of classic hundred years old, so their language literature in public domain. might be a bit archaic. The site also has free audiobooks. Free e-books at Publio—a small catalog of free e-books at the online store Publio. New books at Polish Wikisources—a You’ll need to create a free account to chronological list of all the books available download its titles. free of charge in Polish at the Wikisources project. Mostly older titles. A bilingual edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland—the Polish Free e-books at Woblink—a quite large translation of Alice is displayed right next library of free titles available in the Polish to the English original, making it an e-book store Woblink. To download the excellent learning resource. It has one free e-books, you’ll have to create an serious flaw though: most of the diacritics account (“załóż konto” in the top right (characters such as ą, ł, ż, etc.) in the corner) and log in. Polish text are missing.
NajpierwPrzeczytaj.pl—a Polish self- News: publishing platform. All the published books are free to download. Gazeta.pl—one of the most popular Polish news portals
Polska Agencja Prasowa—the website of Poland’s national news agency
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Magazines & hobby sites: Polish and hundreds of free audiobooks to go with them. National Geographic Polska—the website of the Polish edition of National Newsweek Polska—the Polish edition of Geographic magazine the weekly Newsweek
Focus.pl—a Polish magazine publishing PCLab.pl—a portal with articles, reviews popular science articles Wolne Lektury and news from the world of technology has thousands of public domainbooks in Eurogamer.pl—the Polish version of the popular video game news website Listening materials Self-development: Lepiej teraz
Podcasts for learners: Audiobooks:
Real Polish Podcast—Piotr from Real Audiobooks at Wolne Lektury—a quite Polish tells stories, shares his own sizeable selection of free public domain thoughts and various tidbits related to audiobooks can be found under “List of history, science and language learning. audiobooks”. Everything is presented in rather slow, very clear Polish. The podcast episodes Audioteka—if you’re willing to pay for are also available on its YouTube channel. your listening materials, Audioteka offers a huge selection of Polish audiobooks at PolishPod101—the podcast is basically a reasonable prices. language course in audio format. Lessons correspond to specific topics and cover all Radio proficiency levels. The site also has some extra features such as a dictionary, RMF FM—music and news, most popular vocabulary lists, and flashcards. Note that Polish radio station access to most of the materials requires a paid subscription. Some of the audio Radio ZET—music and news, another very lessons are available for free on the popular station podcast’s YouTube channel. Polskie Radio* Regular Polish podcasts: Jedynka—easy listening music and news Podkasty.info—a site devoted to Polish Dwójka—classical music and culture podcasts of all genres. You can find its Trójka—music (mostly rock) and catalog of 300 podcasts here. entertainment Polskie Radio 24—exclusively news Business & finance: Mała Wielka Polskie Radio Dzieciom—children’s station, Firma, Puls Biznesu do słuchania, Więcej might be useful for beginners niż oszczędzanie pieniędzy Matysiakowie—the longest running radio drama in Poland, over 700 episodes News: Świat w trzy minuty available for free at Polskie Radio.
Science and culture: Klub Ludzi Ciekawych Wszystkiego, Nauka XXI wieku, nerdy nocą
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TV shows
Classic Polish TV shows available for free at vod.tvp.pl include: Alternatywy 4 (1983-1986)—a cult classic comedy series about the lives of the inhabitants of a block of flats in communist Warsaw.
M jak miłość (2000-)—probably the most popular Polish soap opera nowadays. It tells the story of several generations of the Mostowiak family living in the countryside and a small town near Warsaw.
Ranczo (2006-2016)—a family-friendly comedy following the story of Lucy, a Polskie Radio’s online player lets you Polish-American who comes to the Polish listen to the Polish public radio from anywhere in the world. countryside after inheriting her grandmother’s home. Multimedia: Czas honoru (2008-2013)—a critically acclaimed drama set in occupied Poland General tip: If you want to be shown during World War II, follows the story of more Polish content (or have the option to Polish soldiers fighting for the country’s enable Polish subtitles/audio), try independence. changing the interface language. This works not just in Netflix, but also iTunes Movies and several other services. Streaming services Adapter—the website lets you stream classics of Polish cinema with audio Netflix—to get access to the platform’s description and Polish subtitles (adapted catalog of Polish TV shows and movies, for the visually impaired and hard of change the interface language to Polish. hearing). Some noteworthy titles This should cause the “Polish” category to available here include Miś, Plac appear under both “TV shows” and Zbawiciela, and Dzień Świra. “Movies”. As of now, there aren’t that many titles to choose from, but it’s still Vod.pl—though most of its movies are worth checking out if you’re subscribed to paid, there is still quite a sizeable Netflix. selection of free ones. Look for titles without the label “płatny”. Vod.tvp.pl*—a VOD service run by TVP (Telewizja Polska—the Polish public TV IPLA—mostly offers foreign movies with broadcaster). You can find almost all of Polish voice-over. The link will take you to TVP’s programming here, from the most the list of all IPLA’s movies that can be recent TV show episodes to classic Polish streamed for free. movies, to archival black-and-white programs from the Communist era. It’s hard to recommend specific Polish movies with so many genres and titles available, but these two rankings should help you choose something for yourself.
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IMDB’s Top 150 Polish Feature Films Polish for Beginners—over a dozen video lessons on Polish declension, Filmweb’s Top 100 Polish Movies conjugation and vocabulary.
Uczymy się polskiego—a Polish course made up of a series of videos in the format of a soap opera. It’s quite ancient, but it’s not like you can find newer series in a similar vein.
Travel: Globstory, Busem Przez Świat, Krzysztof Gonciarz Cooking: Kocham Gotować, kotlet.tv Science: SciFun, Polimaty, Astrofaza, Pod Mikroskopem, emce History: Historia bez cenzury Movies: Sfilmowani, Na Gałęzi Sports: Footgol TV Video games: EurogamerPL, quaz9, arhn.eu Tech: De-Kompozytor Adapter, financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, has Currently trending on Polish YouTube classics of Polish cinema such as Miś available to stream for free Communities Forums
YouTube channels Whenever you’re watching Polish videos on YouTube, it’s a good idea to check if subtitles are available—some larger channels even have subtitles in English.
MrRealPolish—Piotr regularly uploads language lessons, learner-friendly vlogs, episodes of his podcast Real Polish and other valuable video resources.
Easy Polish – Learning Polish from the Streets—a series of videos in which ordinary Poles in the streets answer questions about various topics. All interviews are subtitled in both Polish and English. Highly recommended as a kind of vocabulary booster.
r/learnpolish—the subreddit has tons of PolishPod101—a large catalog of valuable discussions and a very helpful listening-based lessons teaching community, which makes it a great place vocabulary used in everyday situations. to exchange experiences with other learners.
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PolishForums: Language—the language section at PolishForums.com has quite a AVOIDING SCAMS AND lot of members eager to answer questions TRAPS IN POLAND related to the Polish language.
A. Tourist Attractions
Finding tutors: 1. Two girls bar scam This scam has been around for a while but italki—using italki is probably the best is still going strong especially in Krakow. way to find tutors who will give you Male travellers especially those alone or in private Polish lessons for a fee. You can a small group are usually targeted. choose to learn with professional tutors, who are better qualified to provide “real” The gist of it is a tourist will be lessons, or community tutors, who tend to approached by two girls (some claim focus on conversation rather than them to be Latvian girls) appearing to be structured teaching, but charge lower rates (sometimes as little as $6 per hour). tourists themselves. They may ask for directions or recommendations, which you
Facebook groups for learners: probably won’t have an answer for. Striking you up in conversation they will nonchalantly point to a bar nearby and - We learn Polish! suggest getting a drink. - Learn Polish – Naucz się polskiego! Once you’ve had a few drinks you’ll be - Duolingo Polish Learners asked to pay the bill, this being an extortionate amount, being told the girls The r/learnpolish subreddit has tons of had very expensive cocktails. If you interesting discussions about the Polish refuse to pay you will be threatened by language. some large mob guys who will bully or push you around a bit until you fork up the cash.
Rule of thumb: To avoid this type of scam an easy way out is to tell these girls that you are late and need to get going, that you are travelling on a budget so need cheap places to drink or test them by offering to bring them to your hotel/another place to drink. If you follow them, ask for drink prices before ordering to be sure about what you are paying.
Avoid these places which are infamous for this scam: the clubs/bar particularly on ul. sw. Tomasza, ul. Slawkowska, Florianska (Flames),and sw. Marka, (Club Saxon and Hard Candy).
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2. Currency Exchange Scam 4. Pickpocketing There are lots of places offering currency In every major city across the world you exchange in tourist locations and cities. should be aware of pickpockets. The most With varying rates, some good value, common way this happens is when in a others not so good and some that might crowded place one person causes a seem too good to be true. distraction whilst another person takes your wallet or phone using sleight of hand However, with the latest scam you might whilst you are confused. Before you know think you are getting the reasonable rate it, your items are gone and so are the you are expecting with an added bonus of thieves. You’re most likely to experience no commission, but false advertising this in crowded places such as tourist might leave you out of pocket. Advertised attractions and bus and rail stations. rates in scam currency exchange booths will probably not be the rate that you To be well prepared, do check out the actually pay. pickpocket section in the Netherlands and Spain to see the multitude of situations Tourists will think they are getting a deal and creative ways the pickpocket pros go only to be told once the exchange is made about their business. that the expected rate and free commission is only applicable to large Rule of thumb: sums of money. Leaving you with a hefty If you want to avoid becoming a victim, commission fee, a terrible exchange rate stay alert especially in busy places and and a no- return policy. keep your cash safe and secure. Only carry small amounts of cash around with Rule of thumb: you. Avoid carrying the purse or wallet in When exchanging currency, always check the back pocket. Also, use a spare wallet, the small print and confirm the rate and money belt or anti-theft bag to further commission before making the deal by protect yourself from pickpockets. getting them to write it down before you make your exchange. Further, keep most of your valuables and passport in the hotel safe. Carry around a 3. Auschwitz tour scam photocopy of your passport instead. Also, Many tours to Auschwitz are advertised consider using hotel safety tools such as a for tourists, however the actual entrance hotel safe lock or door jammer to further is usually free and tours once you have strengthen the security of your hotel arrived are provided by the museum. room. When you book with a tour operator for this trip, all you are actually paying for is 5. Tourist photo scam your transport and possibly a stop to your This is an old scam that is still ongoing. driver’s friends’ shop or restaurant where You may be approached by a seemingly they receive commission. friendly stranger offering to take your photo at a popular tourist attraction. Once Rule of thumb: they have hold of your camera or phone The best thing to do is to research and and have taken the photo they will plan your own transport to Auschwitz demand a large sum for the privilege of before your visit. There are regular buses the photo taking and will probably hold from Krakow bus station that will take you onto the camera until you hand over the directly there for a fraction of the price cash. you would pay a tour operator.
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Rule of thumb: Never hand over your 3. Phony Taxi Drivers camera to a stranger who approaches You will find many of these you. Find a fellow tourist or use a selfie unregulated/unofficial “taxi” drivers at stick instead. tourist attractions or major transportation hubs. If you take up their offer, most B. Transport likely you will be told that their meter isn’t working and you will be charged a fixed 1. Taxi fare scam rate that is higher than if you were to use Taxi scams happen all around the world an official taxi. but specifically to Poland, there are certain scams you need to know. Some Rule of thumb: taxi drivers turn on night or weekend Use official taxis, or Uber as an meters during the day, or even claim the alternative. You could also try double amount of what was initially website/mobile apps from www.teletaxi.pl agreed upon (if both had agree on a fixed or get-taxi-get.com which will help you rate rather than use the meter). taxis from reputable companies in Poland.
Legitimate taxis in Poland will have their 4. Taxi driver sleight of hand rates clearly marked so you know how Happens in some countries, what happens much you are paying before you get in is that some rogue taxi drivers will try to and start your journey. cheat tourists unfamiliar with Polish currency with sleight of hand tricks to Rule of thumb: hide certain bills and claim that you have Always book with a reputable taxi not paid enough. company (you could also try using mobile apps from www.teletaxi.pl or get-taxi- Rule of thumb: get.com to get them) and don’t just get Count the notes out loud before handing into a random taxi. Or even better, if you them over to the driver. Watch carefully use Uber in your own country book as the driver counts them. through your app to know you are insured and are getting the best rate. 5. Friendly helper scam When buying a train or tram ticket from a 2. Long-hauling taxi drivers machine you should beware of good Happens in many other countries as well, Samaritans trying to help you with your do be wary when a driver asks if you will purchase. You might be stopped by a like to take a shortcut. passer-by, who will press buttons on the machine or attempt to help you insert Another way they do so is by purposely your payment. misinterpreting the street name (e.g. bringing you to Matoviska instead of Most people are dazed or confused by this Mazowiecha). and won’t notice the switch of the ticket or the snatch of the cash until it’s too late Rule of thumb: and the culprit is on their toes. Do your research – how long would the route take and how much would it cost Rule of thumb: roughly? You can find this online or by Make sure you are aware of your simply asking your hotel receptionist for a surroundings when booking tickets and if rough estimate. If you have mobile data, you are approached then politely but you can use GPS and check if you are on firmly decline any help. the correct route during the trip as well.
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6. Scam bus companies If your card is taken out of your sight When you book a bus ticket in advance there is a chance that your card details you must be wary of fraudulent are being taken to be cloned or used companies. In Poland tourists have been fraudulently. You might find yourself hit left stranded when companies cancel, with a large bill weeks later. their prepaid services. Meaning customers have no transport and have lost their Rule of thumb: money too. Paying with cash is the best solution. However, if you must pay by card, don’t Rule of thumb: let your credit card go out of your sight. Book with a well-known company with a refund policy, or buy your ticket from the 3. Fake Police Officers bus driver. You might find fake “policemen” wandering around looking quite real and C. Misc official in their uniforms (happens even in the US and many other countries). The 1. Credit card hotel scams difference is that they are there to scam You should always be careful when you. handing over your credit card when travelling but one such scam in Poland You may be stopped and asked to has come to light that you should be produce your ID and credit cards and aware of. If you have given your card even your PIN numbers. Of course, real details online or booked through an officers would never ask for your PIN but operator you may assume it has all been these fake officers can be quite taken care of. intimidating. They look through your wallet, giving it back to you saying But in the early hours of the morning, everything is fine. However, once you especially after one too many beers, you check you’ll find that your money or cards might receive a phone call from the so- have went missing. called receptionist to confirm your details. Drowsy, drunk or hungover you might Rule of thumb: give out your details over the phone in Should you be approached, always ask to your hotel without a second thought. Next check their identification. After getting thing you know there’s a massive bill and their identification details, threaten to call you have no idea who has spent this the police hotline to check (end of this money or where it was spent! article). At this point, the scammers will have been scared off. Rule of thumb: If you have a call in the middle of the Never give out your PIN number even if night remember you don’t have to give you think it is the Police who are asking. any details right there and then. Why would they pick this time to contact you 4. Restaurant scam anyway? In the back of your mind think Although some are tourist traps and not about this, and if the situation arises let scams, you still feel cheated dining at the person know you will see reception these restaurants either way. First thing personally in the morning and hang up. to watch out for is that these restaurants will usually task their waiters to solicit 2. Credit card number scams aggressively on the streets, offering some discount or promotion too good to be When paying with your credit card in missed to bring you off the street. restaurants and shops, beware of your card being taken away by staff.
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Once at the restaurant, some tricks include serving appetizers which were not ordered which would be charged; tap water may be passed off as expensive bottled water; inconsistent bills; charging for random add ons; misleading prices/weight on the menu; having extra surcharges in Polish when the entire menu is in English, etc.
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The only way to prevent this from happening is to do your research – check Compared to other European capitals, out reviews of places to eat online. accommodation in Warsaw is very Should you prefer to just drop by a affordable. Outside Warsaw, expats will restaurant along the way, always ask find it even cheaper. Of course, this when unsure (e.g. if any extra charges for partially reflects the fact that salaries in this or that; found something you don’t Poland are much lower, but those with a understand on the menu, etc). good job with an international company will have no trouble finding a decent place to live for a relatively good price. Polish cities are fairly high density, so expats POSITIVES AND can usually find a place to live which suits their taste and doesn't involve a monster NEGATIVES OF LIVING commute. IN POLAND PRO: English-speaking realtors Pros and Cons of Moving to Poland available
Living in Poland can be a great adventure, Expats can generally find an English- but it also has its challenges, for both speaking real estate agent to help in the foreigners and locals. Choosing to live in search, though this might be slightly more Poland, especially if you don't have Polish expensive. roots or connections and know nothing about the country, will likely involve a steep learning curve. That said, if you are CON: Small apartments and a hardened expat who has worked in Asia limited space or the Middle East, you may be surprised and gratified to find how much at home People in Poland generally live in you feel in Poland. apartments, and expats may be surprised at the small amount of space they seem Accommodation in Poland to require. Whole families live in 40 or 50 square metres, and as a rule the living room also doubles as a bedroom with a PRO: Accommodation is foldout couch serving as a bed. As a affordable and generally easy to find consequence, many places are a lot smaller than one may be used to.
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Lifestyle and culture in Poland CON: Furnished apartments not always to the modern taste PRO: Typical European culture If you are renting a furnished apartment Polish lifestyle and culture is close to that at the cheaper end of the spectrum, be of other European nations, which makes it prepared for outrageously hideous easy to build relationships and make furniture. Even if you have no interest or friends. expertise in interior design, you will find it PRO: Vibrant night life and hard to ignore the sheer ugliness of some entertainment in Polish cities of the offerings.
CON: Complicated security systems
Many apartments in the suburbs are in Fort Knox-style blocks requiring passwords or multiple keys to get in. Some have on-site security guards who rarely speak English, so you may find that you or your friends have difficulty penetrating the perimeter of the complex to get to your own house. In Polish cities you can find a vibrant range of urban life - exhibitions, concerts, Cost of living in Poland talks, slow food events, film and music festivals, and so forth. Museums and galleries are plentiful. PRO: Relatively inexpensive compared to other European Summer in Poland is all about being countries outside and there are lots of great things to do outdoors such as windsurfing, The costs of basics such as supermarket kayaking, hiking in the mountains, shopping, eating out, public transport camping, going to the seaside and bike and, as mentioned above, rent, compare riding. favourably with the costs in other European countries. Drinking beer in a bar or pub is also much cheaper than in PRO: Poles are multilingual Western Europe. Movie tickets in smaller cinemas tend to be cheaper, and in big Younger Poles frequently know other multiplexes more expensive. languages (most often English) and are informed about world events.
CON: Pricy clothing and petrol CON: Bureaucracy Many Poles complain that items such as new clothes are more expensive than they In some arenas (most notably when are in Western Europe. Petrol is also dealing with older people and government expensive. departments), old communist bureaucracy and customer service ethics prevail. Don't be surprised to be met with obtuseness and unhelpfulness when
45 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com trying to organise matters such as your Healthcare in Poland residency or work permits. Older women frequently display this attitude and often work in supermarkets and other lowly PRO: High standard of customer service roles, where they may inexpensive private healthcare delight in making your life as hard as possible. First class healthcare is available in Poland; you can find medical staff and equipment of the highest calibre. CON: Long working hours and Compared to other countries, private high pressure in the work place healthcare is relatively cheap, and when one works for an international company Poles work hard and spend long hours at or a well-regarded Polish company, some the office. Whether this will be expected sort of private health package is usually of you in your job depends on the culture part of the deal. English-speaking doctors of your company and the nature of your are also not hard to find. role. There is a lot of competition for steady, well-salaried employment and this can lead, on occasion, to strained and CON: Long waiting times for suspicious relations in the workplace. public healthcare
The public health system is an antiquated CON: Winter and overloaded old beast; if expats are unlucky enough to have to resort to this No matter how much a person can love as their only access to medical care, it's the cold and snow, the short days and not unheard of to wait up to a year for an large amount of time spent indoors can appointment with a specialist. wear one down. If your home is in more temperate climes, this is a good time to visit it. In a bad year, the winter can last CON: Doctors have a poor bedside six months, and Poles often cite it as a manner good reason for emigrating. Polish doctors are not known for their bedside manner and may come across as CON: The Polish language unsympathetic. Progressive ideas about patient self-advocacy and ideas such as Though it’s not difficult to find an English birth plans and keeping the patient speaker to help you navigate, when you informed are still in their infant stages are travelling outside major cities or and far behind what expats might find in dealing with older Poles it will be Western Europe, Australia or the United invaluable to know some Polish. States. Expect to be treated with Unfortunately, it's far from being the brusqueness or impatience, even within easiest language in the world for an the private system, if you try to assert Anglophone to wrap their tongue around - yourself. those who are committed, talented at languages and shameless enough to make a fool of themselves on a regular CON: Hospital food basis may find a year of serious effort may or may not get them conversational. Those unfortunate enough to require a When making progress, though, expect to stay in hospital should not be surprised to be applauded far and wide by the natives; get a diet of bread and gruel. Make sure many foreigners never even manage to you can get somebody to bring you learn the basics. supplementary food.
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Education in Poland Transport in Poland
PRO: High standard of education PRO: Developed and affordable There is no need to worry about getting public transport system an inferior education in Poland. A BBC article from June 2012 stated that Most Polish cities have well-developed Poland's reading scores on an and comprehensive public transport international education assessment test systems. Some of them, including were better than those in the UK and the Warsaw, also have city bikes which US, as well as France, Germany and expats can pick up and drop off in various Norway. Educational reforms mean that places. the Polish system is constantly improving. Transport around the country is also affordable and well developed; even small For those who want their children to villages usually have a functioning bus attend an international school, this option line, even if it only runs a couple of times also exists in a number of major Polish a day. There is also a well-developed rail cities. There are also a number of courses network and quick, reliable trains run which allow students to study in English between all major cities, as well as at university level. between Warsaw and other European capitals.
CON: Public schools can be All flights from Warsaw currently fly overcrowded and there is little through Okęcie Airport, which is very emphasis on individual development close to downtown Warsaw. This means it’s possible to avoid the budget airline curse of arriving at an airport which is nominally Warsaw but it actually in the middle of nowhere.
CON: Underdeveloped road infrastructure and expensive petrol
Though there are some proper highways, even main routes such as the road from Warsaw to Gdansk often consist largely of
a single lane in each direction. Public schools in Poland often have large class sizes which can mean the emphasis Compared to the United States or even falls on discipline rather than learning. other Western European countries, it costs a lot to run a car, especially Teachers' earnings are on the low end of considering the wages people earn. the scale, which can affect morale. A lot of bus and train routes are seasonal, The emphasis is often on success as so if heading to the coast or to the measured by test scores, rather than mountains out of season the options may developing critical thinking or creative be a lot more limited. abilities. This can make children less inclined to try new things out of fear of failure.
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Employees bring cake and champagne to CULTURE, SOCIETY, the office to celebrate their name day. TABOOS AND At Christmas, it is common to give small DIFFERENCES gifts to service workers such as postal workers, refuse collectors, etc. Social Etiquette, Customs and Protocol If invited to a Pole's home for dinner, bring wine, flowers, pastries or sweets for Meeting and Greeting the hostess.
Greetings are generally reserved yet Give an odd numbers of flowers. courteous. Do not give yellow chrysanthemums as When greeting someone a good they are used for funerals. Do not give handshake, direct eye contact, a smile red or white flowers, especially carnations and the appropriate greeting for that time and lilies. of day will suffice. Gifts are generally opened when received. Good morning/afternoon is "dzien dobry" and good evening is "dobry wieczor". Dining Etiquette
Address people by their honorific title, If you are invited to a Pole's house: “Pan” for a man and “Pani” for a woman, and their surname. Be punctual.
Do not use first names until invited to. You may be expected to take off your Moving from the use of formal to the shoes. (Check to see if your host is informal names is such an important step wearing slippers) that there is a ritual to acknowledge the changed status and your inclusion in their Dress conservatively. ‘inner circle’. Offer to help the hostess with the At parties or other social gatherings, your preparation or clearing up after a meal is hosts will introduce you, usually starting served. This is good manners. This will with the women and then moving on to more often than not be turned down out the men. of politeness.
Gift Giving Etiquette Do not ask for a tour of the house.
The usual times for present giving are Table manners are Continental, i.e. hold birthdays, name days (birth date of the the fork in the left hand and the knife in saint after whom they are named), and the right while eating. Christmas. Wait for the hostess to invite you to start Here are some general gifts giving eating. guidelines: Most meals are served family-style. Do not give gifts that are overly expensive; this may embarrass the Take small amounts of food initially so recipient. you can accept second helpings.
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Try a bit of everything. Try and have one side of your card translated into Polish. Toasts are only made with hard liquor (generally vodka). Include advanced university degrees and titles on your business card; qualifications You should reciprocate with your own are impressive. toast later in the meal. Communication Styles Alcohol is served in small glasses so you can swallow in one gulp. Generally speaking, Poles judge others by their personal qualities. They therefore Business Etiquette and Protocol like to spend time getting to know people Meeting & Greeting as individuals. This allows them to size people up. Polish businesspeople initially take a formal approach to business. This may Honesty is highly valued in Poland since come across as quite distanced but is not trust is the cornerstone of business the intention. You may also notice relationships. Building personal differences in style between government relationships is essential for successful officials who maintain formality and business dealings, especially if you are entrepreneurs who willingly dispense with looking for a long-term business formality. It is best to let your colleagues relationship. determine the level of formality used. General tips include: Poles are known for being direct communicators, i.e. they say what they Shake hands with everyone upon arriving are thinking. However they are also very and leaving. sensitive to other’s feelings and let that determine how and what they say. Handshakes are quite firm and eye contact is valued. While direct communication is valued in Poland, there is also emphasis on Wait for a woman to extend her hand. finessing what is said in order to deliver information in a diplomatic way. Some older businessmen may kiss a woman's hand upon meeting. Do not The level of the relationship mostly imitate this behaviour as it may be seen determines how direct someone can be. as you poking fun. For newly established and more formal Titles are considered prestigious. relationships, a great deal of emphasis is Academic or professional titles are used placed on diplomacy. Once a relationship with the honorific titles with or without has passed through the initial phases, the surname. people feel more comfortable speaking frankly with each other and animated Wait to be invited before moving to first exchanges become more common. names. You may do business with people for years and not be on a first name Business Meetings basis. The most senior Pole generally opens the Business cards are exchanged without meeting and sets the groundwork for formal rituals. what is to be discussed.
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He may also verbally offer a for foreigners, who may experience some recommended agenda for the discussions. culture shock in Poland. Small talk is the norm at the start of meetings; do not rush proceedings as this Dress in Poland is part of the relationship building process. Business and work attire in Poland tends to be quite formal – for women, shirts and The first few meetings may in fact seem suits; for men, collared shirts and suit to be more small talk than business trousers. If doing business it's best to err discussions. If this is the case it means on the side of formality. If teaching, the that your Polish colleagues are still sizing rules are a bit more relaxed, but in you up and have not yet made up their general very casual work attire is not minds. considered very professional. In summer, it’s hard to find a non-pedicured exposed You may want to consider this as an female foot – female grooming is popular opportunity to get more personal and try and hairdressers and beauty salons are as and form that relationship. common as supermarkets in big Polish cities. Lunch and dinner meetings are often used to further the personal relationship. Language barrier in Poland
Meetings tend to be relatively relaxed The language is one of the biggest issues once the personal relationship has been for foreigners in Poland. Polish grammar established. and pronunciation makes it difficult for speakers of Western European languages Hard facts are important so participants to learn. It may be easier for someone come well-prepared with facts and figures who already knows another Slavic to back up their statements. Foreigners language. would be expected to do the same. That said, if staying in Poland long-term, Business decision-making processes tend it is worth learning as much Polish as to have a hierarchical basis, and therefore possible. It will make life much easier – many decisions will be taken at the top even the information and ticket windows echelons of the company. at Warsaw's Central Station are not necessarily manned by English speakers. Final decisions are translated into Many young people know English and rigorous, comprehensive action steps that other languages, but expats will be more you can expect will be carried out to the independent if they learn to conduct basic letter. transactions in Polish as quickly as possible.
CULTURE SHOCK IN On the positive side, Poles will be incredibly patient with a foreigner's efforts POLAND and once past total beginner status, they
will be happy to speak in Polish even if From a cultural point of view, Poland is a they speak an expat's language better. European country with customs and social Expats speaking Polish well may find norms which will not be completely alien themselves quite popular among the local to Western expats. population.
However, there are some things that may be difficult to assimilate or are surprising
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Time in Poland paperwork can seem overwhelming. Many systems are not yet computerised, so In Poland, all the usual rules about expect to fill in plenty of forms in punctuality apply, especially in business quadruplicate, and to engage in queuing interactions. Transport also generally runs on a regular basis. Get a local advisor to on time help if possible – English-speakers are not easy to come by in government offices. Religion in Poland For expats who have a Polish partner, are Poland is a Catholic country, with a fair a non-EU citizen, and are applying for a sprinkling of Eastern Orthodox, especially temporary residency, be aware that part in the eastern part of the country. If of the application process will be a home visiting churches, one will be expected to visit at the declared address with no behave in a quiet and respectful manner – warning, to ascertain whether the keep hands out of pockets and voices applicant is really living where they claim hushed, and men should remove their and with the person they claim to be with. hats (this doesn't apply to women). This may include invasive tactics such as Weddings include a mass – those who are rummaging through a wardrobe or not Catholic should be warned this requesting to see where private papers includes a lot of standing up and are kept. Both partners will be kneeling; watch what other guests are interviewed separately at the beginning of doing. the residency process, to ensure that their stories about their relationship Also, be aware of church and other public match – this interview will take place in holidays in Poland, over which almost Polish, so it may be necessary to have a everything will be closed. Christmas gift- translator who has no personal connection giving and the main Christmas dinner to either party. take place on Christmas Eve rather than on Christmas Day, as is the case in many Racism in Poland other countries. Poland, at this point in its history, is a Cultural dos and don'ts in Poland culturally homogeneous country where the vast majority of the population is In most Polish houses, the householders white and Polish speaking. Foreigners are don't wear outdoor shoes inside and it’s not common enough in most places to best to follow suit. Also, there is almost make people blasé about them. Non- always a coatrack inside the door, where European looking expats may find visitors will be expected to leave themselves the object of frequent stares outerwear in winter. and whispered commentary, especially Polish people are not in the habit of from the older generation. There is no smiling gratuitously at strangers; if easy way to deal with this, apart from smiling at a stranger, expect to be met developing a very thick skin. with a suspicious gaze in return. Also, if greeting people only known by sight, they The urban/rural divide in Poland may not always respond. Service in shops and government offices can be surly and Expats in Poland will most likely find brusque – try not to take it personally. themselves living in a larger city where it will be easier to find someone who speaks Bureaucracy in Poland their language, and where foreigners are For those applying for a residency visa or not unheard of. It is worth noting that life setting up a business in Poland, the in the countryside in Poland looks very
51 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com different to urban life – people are rental prices are the highest for the last generally much poorer, and may find category. dealing with a foreigner overwhelming. If planning to spend time in rural Poland, it Renting an Apartment. How to search is essential to learn some Polish and to offers? accept that interactions may be much more difficult than they are in the city. For foreigners who don’t know the Polish language, there is a possibility to use Money and salaries in Poland different options of searching for an apartment: If seeking work in Poland, do not be surprised to find that no salary is 1st : Using portals which are in the advertised. Interviewees will often be English language asked about their 'financial expectations' (e.g., rentflatpoland.com, property- at the interview, with no clue as to what krakow.com). the prospective employer is ready to pay. It is a good idea to find out what the 2nd: Contacting directly a real estate going rate is for the job in question, and agency. Most of real estate agencies ask think about what an acceptable wage for a fee. Of course, with some agencies, would be before going to the interview. the owner pays the fee instead of the tenant. Bear in mind that you shouldn’t pay for visiting an apartment. You can be ACCOMMODATION charged a commission only if you take an apartment. Finding Accommodation in Poland 3rd : Talking to Polish friends or checking Types of apartment people can rent in for offers at a local university, or at work. Poland You can find other people looking for an apartment and decide to live together. First of all, you can live in a dormitory and rent an apartment alone or with other 4th: Checking social media and expat people, which is the most popular. It is groups in Poland. You can find ‘expats in also possible to rent a room in an Warsaw’, Krakow etc. apartment with the owner, which is usually cheaper but bear in mind that you 5th: Asking your company to help you live with the landlord. find accommodation. Moreover, you need to remember that there is a difference in the quality of 6th: Checking some forums. It is possible apartments or rooms to rent. Basically, to find something there. there are 3 types of building containing apartments. The first one is ‘kamienica’. Rental period We can describe it as an apartment inside an old building with a high ceiling, usually Usually, the minimum period is from six around 3.5 metres. Such apartments are months to one year. Some owners are generally cheaper. Another type is flexible and can rent their apartment for a block (‘blok’). Such buildings are more one or two months. It’s very important to modern than ‘kamienica’, but without any include the termination information in the additional facilities. The last type, very contract. This way, you won’t have to stay rare and the most luxury is a new building in the apartment until the end of the with plenty of options inside: security, regular rental period. monitoring, parking place, sometimes a gym and a swimming pool. Of course,
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Security deposit The last thing is to check the standard of In most cases, a security deposit is the apartment. Make sure that you get required. The amount is usually the good equipment inside the kitchen, that equivalent to one month of rent, the bathroom is equipped with a washing sometimes it may happen to be twice as machine and so on. It is essential to much. It might be possible to negotiate examine the apartment, especially the it. windows. Remember that if something is missing in the apartment, you will need to Monthly bills for electricity, water, buy it or to ask the owner to purchase it. gas etc. Have a look at local offers available on the Internet. Electric heating is more Regarding the market in Poland, it all expensive so take it into consideration depends on which kind of apartment you while choosing an apartment. live in. For instance, monthly bills are higher when you rent an apartment in Internet and television in apartment ‘kamienica’, especially during winter time. For a studio of around 35 square meters, In some apartments, you already have it is necessary to include PLN 100-150 access to the Internet and television. If extra per month for gas and electricity. that’s not the case, you must find a Usually, water bills are already included in provider or conclude an arrangement with the administrative costs. the owner later. There are plenty of Internet providers in Poland. Bear in mind It is possible to rent an apartment with all that you need to wait at least 7 to 20 the bills included, even the Internet and days to get the Internet access with a TV. new installation.
What to pay attention to? Rental agreement
It is always better to rent an apartment The best solution when it comes to sign a with all costs included in order to avoid contract is to ask a Polish friend to read it any unpleasant surprises. As gas bills beforehand and check for any uncertain sometimes are paid every 6 or 12 points. Moreover, you can ask for a months, the sum can be high: around PLN contract in English. Rental contracts are 800 to PLN 1,500 (EUR 200 to EUR 400 really important. Avoid living in an euros). apartment without any contract because you can encounter some issues: the Pay attention to these three things: rental owner can evict you anytime they want, cost, administrative cost and bills. Some and they may ask you to pay for some rental offers show only the renting cost, extras without any proof. which can cause misunderstanding as regards the sum to pay in total. Watch A contract should always contain the out if the price is too attractive, it means following points: that the owner or the real estate agency didn’t put the administrative cost, which • Contract duration (from… to…) can be sometimes almost the same as the • Conditions for termination (the period rental cost. Before visiting an apartment, of notice) always ask if all the costs are included in • Security deposit amount the rent. • Inventory of what is included in the apartment (furniture etc.) Also it would be better to verify what • Water and gas meter readings before shops and public transport is around. you move in
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With this information you won’t have any Classifieds and Real Estate Agents problems while terminating your rental agreement. You can often find some hidden gems if you dig through the classifieds and real Finally, to sign the contract, you need to estate agent listings. provide your ID, passport or your PESEL if you have any. PESEL is an Identification • Gratka: One of the most popular Number in Poland and for you it won’t be classifieds site in Poland. obligatory. • Nocowanie: Nocowanie lets you filter for apartments that have internet, Extra points to know! parking, television, and more. • Onenet: Onenet is good for villas, Usually, landlords or real estate agencies homes and luxury rentals. won’t ask about your income or about • Eholiday: Eholiday is Poland’s largest your work contract as it may happen in website for holiday rentals. other countries, such as France. • Polish Forums: Search around this forum for Polish and English speakers. Normally, the payment is sent via bank • Hamilton May Group: Hamilton May transfer, especially because it is important Group is a real estate agency that can to have a proof of payment. help you find short and long term rentals in Krakow. The payment of the rent is generally due before the 10th of each month. General Apartment and Housing Search Engines How to Find an Apartment in Poland If you have already exhausted your options above, check out the general apartment and housing search engines below.
• Trip Advisor: Trip Advisor is a great destination for vacation rentals. Search around this site to see what you come up with.
• HomeAway.com: A giant in the vacation rental space with properties featured in countries around the world.
• Airbnb: Airbnb has properties
displayed for over 185 countries. You can often get some pretty good deals for short Poland is located in Europe. The official term rentals. language is Polish. The largest cities are Warsaw and Kraków. Useful Articles and Blog Posts
Below is a selection of the best resources Check out the useful articles and blog for searching for an apartment in Poland. posts below for more information to help you with your apartment search.
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• Just Landed: Just Landed has Now that you know the difference, you useful information on finding a place to may decide, whether you are going to rent in Poland. look for a znajomy, or a true przyjaciel. Bear in mind that a real How to Meet Locals in Poland Polish friendship is supposed to last for years and your friends will not let you go Making friends in Poland - is it THAT easily. hard? Be a yes man Many foreigners complain about the lack of openness for new friendships in Polish Polish people are not as open as those people. Is that really true or is it just a who come from Latin America, southern common misconception? If you are about Europe or even the US. The distance is to move to Poland and have no idea of quite visible for many newcomers, but if what it is like to establish new you see it melting away with time – seize relationships here, do read on. this opportunity. When a colleague asks you to join his friends in a pub – go for it. When they invite you over for watching a football game – do not hesitate. If you turn such invitations down, your potential friend will probably not repeat them in the future. Poles are not die-hards and if they consider you uninterested in becoming friends, they may as well stop trying to win you over.
Define ‘friendship’ Start with co-workers
You come here to work but having a Your colleagues are the easiest social trusted friend is an essential part of target for anyone seeking new friends. If everyone’s life and skyping with your best you feel homesick in Poland, establishing mate every other day is sometimes not such relationships may help you ease out enough. You see people out in the streets the pain. Remember about an important having fun but somehow you lack your and a little bit old-fashioned ritual while new best Polish friend. Why is that? taking your friendship to the next level. As you may know, in Poland we address First of all, foreigners need to define the people by Pani (Ms) or Pan (Mr) to show concept of a friend in Poland. Generally, respect to them in official situations, but if what is meant by this word in English, in someone says: Przejdźmy na ty, Polish can correspond to two different translated as Let’s switch to first names. meanings: (= omit the formal Pan/Pani), you have to say yes and as a bonus you get to cross Znajomy is someone whom you know your arms with your friend and drink a well and enjoy spending time with, but toast to both of you. Sounds fun? It’s that person is certainly not close enough called Bruderschaft and marks a for you to invite them to your wedding. It milestone in every relationship you have! could very loosely correspond to English acquaintance. Take Interest
Przyjaciel is a much closer person and .Since friendships in Poland are forever, could be translated into English as best you have to make sure that you take care friend. of your friend. Polish people do not want
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Good luck with making new friends and PolishForums.com, www.polishforum keeping them! You can rest assured that s.com, is an online community about having a Polish friend is one of the best everything Polish. experiences you can get in your life. You can share your thought on it in the News and Media in Poland comment section below. The Warsaw Voice Online is the website of the Warsaw Voice, a weekly news magazine. MEETING OTHER Live-radio.net, provides continuously PEOPLE updated links to thousands of online radio Key Expatriate Websites and stations worldwide, including Poland. Resources:
Online Newspapers lists over 1000 links to Featured Articles on Living, Working, online newspapers worldwide, including Studying, Traveling, and Volunteering Poland. in Poland Recommended Reading on Poland Teaching English in Poland by Katarzyna Radzka Krakow, Warsaw & Gdansk by Rick Steves Going Deep in Poland: Make a Connection & Cameron Hewitt With the Local People by Jim Kane The Tatra Mountains of Poland: The Rough Guide to Poland 7 (Rough Experience Highlander Culture by Barbara Guide Travel Guides) Zaragoza Teaching English in Central and Eastern Lonely Planet Poland by Neal Bedford Europe by Susan Griffith Eyewitness Travel Guide Poland by DK Expatriate Resources and Websites Publishing for Poland Michelin Green Guide Poland by Rachel F. Expat Exchange provides resources, Freeman, Cynthia Clayton Ochterbeck, articles, and a forum for a number of and Jonathan P. Gilbert countries, including Poland. Culture Smart! Poland: A Quick Guide to Customs & Etiquette by Greg Allen
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A Concise History of Poland by Jerzy Tickets and Fares Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki Each city has a slightly different system of A Traveller's History of Poland by John ticketing and fares, so be prepared to Radzilowski watch what the locals do and do likewise. Most cities have a fare system based on Eat Smart in Poland: How to Decipher the the duration of the ride, with a standard Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark 60-minute ticket costing around 3zł. on a Tasting Adventure by Joan Peterson There may be slightly cheaper tickets available for shorter rides (20 or 30 minutes) and more expensive tickets for MEETING OTHER longer ones (90 minutes).
FOREIGNERS There are many common features across Polish buses and trams: Polish National Tourist
Office, www.poland.travel § There are no conductors on board
buses and trams. Buy tickets beforehand Lonely Planet Worldguide provides a and punch or stamp them in one of the lot of useful travel information on its little machines installed near the doors website, including Poland. once you enter the bus or tram.
§ Buy tickets from newspaper kiosks like TRANSPORTATION Ruch or Relay or from street stalls around the central stops. Navigating around Poland (Local § Buy several tickets at once since you transport) may find yourself at a far-flung stop with no chance to buy tickets locally. Bus, Tram & Trolleybus § Plain-clothed ticket inspectors are always on the prowl and foreigners are not exempt. Polish cities offer excellent public transport. Every large and medium-sized Taxi city will have a comprehensive autobus (bus) network, Taxis are easily available and not too while some cities will also expensive. As a rough guide, a 5km taxi have tramwaj (tram) trip will cost around 20zł, and a 10km ride and trolejbus (trolleybus) systems. shouldn’t cost more than 35zł. Taxi fares Warsaw is the only city with a metro. are higher at night (10pm to 6am), on
Sunday and outside the city limits. The § Public transport normally operates number of passengers (usually up to four) daily from around 5am to 11pm. Service and the amount of luggage doesn’t affect is less frequent on weekends. the fare. § Trams and buses are likely to be crowded during rush hour (7am to 9am § Avoid unmarked pirate taxis (called and 4.30pm to 6.30pm Monday to ‘mafia’ taxis by Poles), which usually have Friday). just a small ‘taxi’ sign on the roof with no § Timetables are usually posted at stops, name or phone number. but don’t rely too much on their accuracy.
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§ You can flag down cabs on the street or order them by phone. We recommend ordering by phone if possible, as it cuts down the chance you'll get a rogue driver.
§ Remember to carry small bills, so you’ll be able to pay the exact fare. If you don’t, it’s hard to get change from a driver who’s intent on charging you more.
Zomato phone screenshot, photo: USEFUL APPS promotional materials
JAK DOJADĘ iPhone screenshots, photo: Another huge point in each trip is food. promotional materials Nothing could better show the spirit and culture of a country than the way of When you know where to go, the means preparing, serving and sharing a meal. of transport is the next thing to consider. An absolutely crucial application while Zomato is an application with over a talking about getting to any place in any million followers. Its Polish version was Polish city is JAK DOJADĘ (which recently launched with an extensive translates from Polish as "how do I get variety of Polish restaurants and bars to to"). The app shows the easiest way to help you avoid hunger and thirst, and feel get from point A to B using public Warsaw's true climate. transport. You can also choose how much of a hurry you're in or schedule your way While talking about discovering Polish in advance, and the app will even tell you cities, TcTrips might be very useful. This which tickets you'll need to buy. is also an international app, but, thankfully, Zomato has a Polish version too. For now, TcTrips covers only Krakow and Warsaw but the information contained is clear and well presented. The main reason why TcTrips wins out of all the other international apps is that each tour is made by a resident of the city. That means that you are no longer one of the group of tourists being led to the same old castle – you are discovering the city through the eyes of a local. BIKERADAR iPhone screenshots, photo: promotional materials This is most certainly not the end of our list. Poland can be proud of its own home- If you are a more eco-friendly kind of grown tourist apps that will blow your person, BIKERADAR is something that mind. will make your life so much easier: find the closest bike rental point or bike paths, or even discover paths that others have taken before. A perfect way to enjoy the fresh Polish air in your lungs.
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an interactive map, so it is easy to find DISCOVERING A yourself during sightseeing. It WARSAW YOU NEVER encompasses wide description of Chopin Museum and information about life of WOULD Frederic Chopin.
Unknown Kraków
Miejska Ścieżka / City paths – offers a range of mini city tours, each with special theme. You can choose from 9 paths, If you happen to find yourself in Kraków – among them: Zoliborz in Love, Criminal the city of Kings, as we Poles used to say, Warsaw and Warsaw in 60th. There's downloading myKRK is the first thing to something for everyone here. The tours do. MyKRK is like the real Kraków in a are just one hour long and much more nutshell. You can find the basics of fun, intelligent and unusual that the staying in the city, like a detailed map, a typical tours around the Old Town or city list of events, and practical information on centre. The app also works offline, if you where to eat or sleep, as well as info on download the appropriate mp3 files. where to park your car or rent a bike. The app also works offline.
Near to the sea
Gdańsk is a part of the Tricity, which consists of Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot.
Besides being a part of the huge maritime Warsaw Chopin Guide iPhone screenshots, agglomeration, the city of Gdansk also photo: promotional materials has a complicated history – in the 19th century, it was a so-called "free city", and Warsaw Chopin Guide shows the capital even nowadays being Gdańszczanin (an of Poland from Frederik's point of inhabitant of Gdańsk) is not quite the view. All important places are shown on same as being a Pole. Gdańsk4U shows
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13th century by the Knights of the the tourist highlights but also reveals Teutonic Order as their headquarters, unknown facts and places. Europe’s largest Gothic fortress is named Wroclaw on your phone after the Virgin Mary, the patron saint of the city and castle. The castle is actually three castles, making it the world’s largest brick castle. It took 230 years to build the castle, a majority of which was destroyed during World War II. Much of the castle has been restored since then.
9. Lublin
The Wroclaw Offline Guide is a simple app for tourists, containing the essential information for a trip to the city – a map, descriptions of the most important monuments, a dictionary of the most important phrases, and lists of local specialities, emergency numbers and Lublin, located east of the Vistula, is hotels and restaurants another ancient city with a market place
that may have dated back to the sixth PLACES TO VISIT AND century. Because it is located on Poland’s eastern border, it became, early on, a line THINGS TO DO of defense against various invaders that destroyed the city over the centuries. It Best Places to Visit in Poland also was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Poland. Evidence 10. Malbork of Lublin connecting Western and Eastern cultures can be found at the Holy Trinity Chapel that blends Catholic and Russian- Byzantine styles. But don’t be fooled by the cobblestone streets and medieval architecture of the Old Town, as it boasts a lively arts and nightclub scene.
8. Bialowieza Forest
The Bialowieza Forest is a large remnant of the primeval forests that once covered The medieval town of Malbork, perhaps much of Europe. The forest straddles the better known by the German name of border between Poland and the Republic Marienburg, is most well-known for its of Belarus, and there are border crossings castle, which was ordered built in the for tourists on foot or on bicycles. The
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Bialowieza Forest is the only place where Travelers who crave scenic beauty will European Bison still remain free and living find it in Tatra National Park, located in in the forest as they once did throughout southcentral Poland. Established in 1954, Europe. Wolves, Lynx, Red Deer, Wild the park is mainly forests, meadows and Boar, Elk and Roe Deer are among its numerous rock formations covering the other inhabitants. While the bison are Tatra Mountains. Spelunkers may enjoy kept within fenced areas, guided tours are touring six of the park’s 650 caves that available either on foot or in horse-drawn are open to the public. The park also carriages. offers more than 30 alpine lakes as well as the Wielka Siklawa waterfall that is 70 7. Torun meters (230 feet) high. Tatra, the most visited national park in Poland, will delight hikers with its 270 km (170 miles) of trails. There is a similar national park in the neighboring part of Slovakia, also called the Tatra National Park.
5. Poznan
Torun, located on the Vistula River, is best known, perhaps, as the birthplace of Copernicus, but it’s just as well known for its old market place and Gothic town hall that the National Geographic Polska put Student travelers wanting to meet their on its list of the 30 most beautiful places Polish peers might want to visit Poznan, in the world. As Torun escaped bombing long known as an academic center and during World War II, the city still boasts home to Poland’s third largest university. numerous buildings that date back to the The city hosts many international events, Middle Ages. Construction on the town including the Malta International Theatre hall started in the 13th century, with Festival that takes place every summer. many churches, including the Cathedral of Major sites are easily accessible by SS. John the Evangelist and John the strolling the Royal-Imperial Route, a walk Baptist, dating back to the 14th century. set up especially for tourists. Athletes This church is a must-see for travelers may enjoy a visit to the artificial lake of interested in Gothic paintings and Malta, home to a ski slope, ice rink, and sculptures, and Baroque altars. swimming pools.
6. Tatra National Park 4. Wroclaw
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Located on the Oder River, Wroclaw is the 2. Warsaw largest city in western Poland. Over the centuries it has been governed by Prussia, Poland, Germany and Bohemia, but has been part of Poland since 1945. The former capital of Silesia is still less well- known as some of the other places to visit in Poland but can definitely compete when it comes to amazing architecture. Main attractions include the market square and the impressive Old Town Hall, St, Elizabeth’s Church with its observation The capital of Poland might aptly be deck overlooking the city, and the largest compared to a Phoenix rising from the zoo in Poland. Sailing on the Oder River is ashes. Founded around the 12th a relaxing way to get a feel for this century, Warsaw was pretty much medieval city. destroyed during World War II, but has rebuilt itself into a thriving historical and 3. Gdansk cultural center, complete with a restored Old Town. Once known as the “Paris of the North,” it also is famous as the home of classical composer Fryderyk Chopin.
1. Krakow
Also known as Danzig, Gdansk is the largest city in northern Poland and its main seaport since it lies on the Baltic Sea. Founded around the 10th century, it has a mixed political history; at different Krakow might be described as a rags to times it belonged to Germany and Poland, riches city, since it went from being a and was a free state before permanently seventh century village to the second becoming a part of Poland after World most important city in Poland, being War II. The city rebuilt itself after the known for its cultural, artistic, academic war, restoring its Old Town, which is and economic activities. During World famous for the Royal Road that Polish War II, the Nazis herded Jews into the kings travelled on when visiting this Krakow Ghetto where they were later sent historical city. The city also is home to St. to concentration camps; the movie Mary church, the largest brick church in Schindler’s List centered around one the world. man’s efforts to save the ghetto residents from extermination.
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The basic ingredients used in Polish foods FOOD AND DISHES are beetroot, sauerkraut, cucumbers (pickles and gherkins), mushrooms, sausages, kohlrabi, sour cream and different herbs and species (marjoram, dill, caraway, parsley and pepper).
A Polish menu is constantly enriched with new flavours, sometimes even exotic.
Polish Food
There’s no better place to get expert food advice and tips than from a local of that country. Agness, a Polish traveler and blogger, shares with us some of her favorite things to eat when she’s at home. So when you’re in Poland, don’t miss her expert food advice! 1. Pierogi (Polish dumplings)
Dumplings are made of thinly rolled-out About Polish Food dough filled with a variety of fillings. The most popular fillings are meat, sauerkraut and mushrooms, seasonal fruit (blueberries, strawberries and cherries), buckwheat, sweet cottage cheese or boiled potatoes with fried onions (called Russian dumplings). Pierogi is a Polish food that’s always served for Christmas.
Traditional Polish cuisine is a real calories bomb, but once you try it, you will not be able to resist the temptation.
It is rich in various kinds of meat (pork, chicken, beef) and famous for its excellent bread and delicious sausages
(better than German!).
2. Rosół (broth/ chicken soup)
Rosół is the most common soup served in
Poland. It tastes best after Sunday’s
church on cold days. It is very easy and
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5. Łazanki z kapustą i grzybami It is a very simple dish consisting cabbage, pork meat, homemade pasta noodles and vegetables (chopped onions and sliced carrot). It is delicious and easy 3. Gołąbki (cabbage roll) to make. Gołąbki is a typical traditional Polish food made of minced pork with some rice, onion, mushrooms, wrapped in white cabbage leaves. There are also other variations of fillings such as poultry, mutton or without meat. Before serving cabbage are simmered / fried in fat.
6. Śledź w oleju z cebulą (herring in oil with onion) Herring is a fish you can prepare in various ways. However in Poland, there are two traditional ways of serving the herring, either with sour cream and pickled onions or with oil and garlic. 4. Polskie naleśniki (Polish pancakes) Polish pancakes are very thin and they 7. Bigos (Hunter’s stew) are served either with cheese, quark It is a very traditional Polish dish and its previously mixed with sugar, jam, fruits basic ingredients are shreds sauerkraut, and powdered sugar or with meat and fresh cabbage (sometimes used only vegetables- all equally tasty. sauerkraut), various types of meat and sausages, dried mushrooms, prunes, onions and spices.
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HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Public Health Service in Poland
8. Kotlet schabowy (breaded pork cutlet) Kotlet schabowy is one of the most delicious and the oldest Polish foods. The Let’s say that you’ve felt sick, begun to pork breaded cutlet coated with feel pain somewhere in your body, or you breadcrumbs (served with bones or thought that it would be a good idea to without) can be perfectly served with take some standard medical procedure. buttered potatoes and cabbage salad. If To see the doctor in Poland and use the you don’t like pork meat, try to eat public health service you need to have an chicken cutlet made the same way as the insurance. Once you have it things get pork one. pretty easy for you. However, there are two very important things you need to 9. Gulasz (Goulash) know straight away. This dish is originally from Hungary, but the Polish recipe has been slightly Rule 1 – remember, that in case of things changed. It is a stew of meat served with mentioned in the beginning of this part, potatoes and vegetables, seasoned with first you have to do is to go and see your friend onion and peppers. family doctor. In Poland to see the specialist you need to have a referral.
Rule 2 – if you bleed out, suffer from a bone fracture, burning up or freezing out while reading this – don’t wait! Call 999 or go to the closest emergency room and get help!!!
Visiting a doctor
If you feel that you’re more „rule number one-type of person”, first you have to locate the closest clinic to the place that you live. When you’re done, you simply 10. Dessert – Polish croissant cookies register yourself by giving all the If you feel like having something sweet information about yourself to the polite for your snack time, you can try lady or gentleman working in the clinic by traditional Polish croissant cookies. They putting it on the registartion form. Of are filled with jam and made of puff course, you will be asked about the pastry or yeast.
65 of 83 TeachingEnglishAcademy.com medical insurance. Don’t worry! If you have one, the only thing you need to do is Private Health Service in Poland to bring your ID to the clinic. Congratulations! You’ve found yourself a clinic where you can talk about all your health problems…but we hope you won’t have to talk about them too often.
Now, the procedure is simple. You describe the nature of your problem to the doctor and if necessary you will get the referral to the specialist or for some kind of special examinations like x-ray for example. Of course, you don’t have to If you read this it probably means one of wait for the referral, unless you want to the following: pay some money for visiting a specialist or getting the examinations (but then you • you don’t have time to wait in lines should be reading about private health or visit your family doctor to get a service). After you’re finished – you take referral; the results back to the family doctor and • you are here just for a while and see what happens. Oh, and don’t worry you don’t have medical insurance; about the medications. You will get the • you have extra money you want to prescription if necessary. spend; • Make sure you everything goes Whatever your reasons are, keep reading smoothly and we will share all the secrets of the private health service you’ve always Probably like most of foreigners in Poland wanted to know. you may feel a bit worried about going to the doctor because of the language. The To pay or not to pay? are two solutions of this problem. You could go to the doctor with a polish Unfortunately, unlike the public health person who would translate for you if service, its private counterpart isn’t for necessary (but is more a quick fix rather free. In most of the private clinics you have to pay for things like consultations, than a real solution) or before registering visits to a specialists or examinations. It you make sure your family doctor speaks has its good and bad sides as with English. It will be a bit more tricky to everything in this world. A good one is make sure that the specialists you may definitely the fact that normally you don’t need to visit speak English but it is worth have to queue up and the entire place of asking. Which solution you choose isn’t usually so crowded, like in public deepens on you, but it is good to think clinics or hospitals and the medicine about it before. equipment is of the highest quality. The bad thing about using the public health service is that you have to pay for it, but again, you must ask yourself a question; do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages of it.
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Spending time in a queue from the beginning?) then you get transported by the ambulance, straight to Probably, the biggest advantage of using the hospital. If you have a medical the private health service is saving your insurance – you don’t have to worry time. In most cases, there are no big about a thing as everything is covered. In queues in front of the medical office which case you don’t have any ID with you so means you can make it home for lunch. you cannot prove you’re insured or you What is even more important is that you just are unconscious while transported to don’t need any referrals from your family the hospital you need to provide the doctor – in fact you don’t even have to insurance in 30 days from the date of the visit them or to know them at all. You admission. If you don’t do it, you will choose the specialist – you pay – you get have to pay for the treatment. in for the consultation – simple as that. 2. Voluntary – after the consultation Health insurance with your family doctor or the specialist, you can get the referral to the hospital – That’s probably the best thing of all. for surgery for example. Once more, you Visiting a private clinic or a private doctor have to provide your insurance at the day doesn’t require you having any kind of of the admission or within 30 days from it health insurance. Nothing. At all. Which to not pay for anything. The good news is means you don’t have to bother yourself that you can only bring your ID with you with all formalities and procedures like together with the referral and the hospital when you use the public health service. should be able to confirm that you are eligible for the free treatment. The bad That’s basically all you need to know! If news is that it might take a while before you want to have some more details you will get admitted, the lines to the regarding locations, prices and opening specialists working at hospitals or the hours of the private clinic – just simply (wolne terminy) for the surgery or visit their websites and get all of the examinations might be later than sooner. information. 3. Private – if you can afford spending Going to hospital in Poland – what to money but not spending time on the do in case of emergency examination or surgery you can go to the private clinic or hospital and get things done immediately. The only thing is that you will have to pay for that. How much? It’s hard to say as it depends on the clinic/hospital.
In case of emergency
If you feel or you look like you need to call for emergency don’t waste time! Do it! All you have to do is to call 999 and tell the dispatcher several information There are three ways to get to the regarding your current situation, location hospital. No more, no less: and your personal information. Of course, if you don’t have enough strength to do 1. Involuntary – the least pleasant way itor you’re unconscious – your friends and let us hope the least frequent way. If should do it for you! you have an accident or you feel really, really bad (remember rule number two
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After the call is done, the ambulance compulsory health insurance and should be with you as soon as it’s possible voluntary health insurance. and you will be taken to the hospital. We can’t say how serious your illness or Compulsory Health Insurance injury is and for how long you will have to spend in the hospital, but we can say one You automatically obtain health insurance thing for sure – you will have to confirm under the following conditions: that you hold health insurance within 30 days from the hospital admission. 1. Being employed in Poland – if you’re Otherwise, you will have to pay for the legally employed the employer is obliged treatment. to notify the National Insurance Service (ZUS) that he is proud to have you in Health Insurance in Poland – all you need to know their company. Then, your employer’s responsibility is to pay a monthly contribution to the Polish National Health Fund (NFZ). From now on, you can visit all the health care providers contracted to the NFZ. If you’re self-employed you have to pay a contribution by yourself (it is a part of ZUS that you should pay every month).
2. You’re a family member of the insured – family of a member who could benefit from health care services on the same In Poland, if you feel sick or you just want basis as the insured, are: to go through some medical examination the first thing you have to know is that in • wife or husband; order to do so you need to be insured • child under the age of 18 or under the through the Polish National Health Fund age of 26 in they continue their education (Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia). It allows or with no age limit (if a child holds a you to benefit from all the medical judgement of severe disability); services from health care providers who • parents and grandparents – if they have contracts for health services with stay in the same household as the Polish National Health Fund. How can you insured; do this? Well, it’s simple. 3. Refugees (refugee status must be To save your time, let us clear one thing considered in Poland) and foreigners for you. If you are a citizen of any EU or under the subsidiary protection and EFTA state and you are a happy holder of integration program in consultation with any kind of a valid health insurance in the county family assistance centre. your country the job is done. All you have to to do is to go to an NFZ approved 4. Unemployed – registered at the doctor and show your European Health employment office (insurance may be Insurance Card (EHIC) or a replacement extended to family members of the certificate. registered unemployed, if they are not insured). If you’re not a citizen of mentioned countries or you don’t have any valid 5. Children attending school – in the care health insurance from your country there provided by the school, even if their are two ways of obtaining it – to make parents stay in Poland is not legal. things easier for you let us call them
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Voluntary Health Insurance Once you get a confirmation issued by If you’re not eligible for the compulsory NFZ you just have to…fill out another health insurance you need to fill out the form – this time for the National registration form and deliver it to your Insurance Service and deliver it regional Polish National Health Fund personally or by post to one of its offices. office. We have translated and filled an example form for you – you can get it Right after you’re done the last thing you here. Oh! And for the full list of regional have to do is to register the members of Polish National Health Fund offices just go your family and put them under your to this link. insurance, unless they’re already holders of Compulsory health insurance. To do so If you’re not an EU citizen don’t forget to you just have to…that’s right – fill out bring a passport and one of one of the another form and then deliver it to the following documents: local National Insurance Service office.
• visa allowing you to work in Poland; From now on you will have to pay the • residence permit for a fixed period; contribution to the account of National • permit to settle; Insurance Service (you will be given one • residence permit; after you complete the registration • tolerated stay; process) until the 15th day of each • evidence of refugee status granted in month. You always pay for the previous Poland or the use of temporary protection month, so don’t get confused! on its territory.
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Angolan Embassy in Poland Embassy of Angola in Warsaw, Poland DIRECTORIES AND ul. Goszczynskiego, 12 02-616 Warszawa , Poland PHONE: (+48) 22 844 09 94, (+48) 22 844 09 83 USEFUL PHONE FAX: (+48) 22 844 09 85 EMAIL: [email protected] NUMBERS
Afghani Embassy in Warsaw, Poland
Embassy of Afghanistan in Warsaw Argentinian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland UI, 1, Goplanska Street, 02-954 Embassy of Argentina in Warsaw, Poland CITY: Warsaw CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (+48-22) 88 55 410 PHONE: 00 48 506067852/ 00 48 22 617 60 28 FAX: (+48 22) 88 56500 FAX: 00 48 22 617 71 62 WEBSITE: http://www.afghanembassy.com.pl WEBSITE: http://http://epolo.cancilleria.gov.ar/ EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Albanian Embassy in Poland
Embassy of Albania in Warsaw, Poland Armenian Embassy in Poland Ul. .Altowa 1, 02-386, Warszawa, Poland Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in the Republic PHONE: +48 22 824 14 27 of Poland FAX: +48 22 824 14 26 50, ul. Bekasow , 02-803, Warsaw, Poland WEBSITE: PHONE: (48-22) 8990940-42 http://http://www.ambasadat.gov.al/poland/en/ FAX: (48-22) 8990935 EMAIL: [email protected]; WEBSITE: http://poland.mfa.am [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00 OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday 09:00-18:00
Albanian Consulate in Poland Australian Embassy in Poland Albanian Consulate in Czestochowa, Poland Australian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland ul. Ko?obrzeska 13/211, 10-444 Olsztyn, Poland ul. Nowogrodzka 11, Warsaw 00-513, Poland PHONE: (+48) (87) 620 05 32 PHONE: 48-22-5213444 FAX: (+48) (87) 620 05 31 FAX: 48-22-6273500 EMAIL: - WEBSITE: OFFICE HOURS: 10.00-14.00 http://www.poland.embassy.gov.au/wsawpolski/hom e.html EMAIL: [email protected]
Albanian Consulate in Poland OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday 09:00 - 16:30 Albanian Consulate in Poznan, Poland ul. Billewiczówny 21, 60-177 Poznan, Poland
PHONE: (+48) 61 868 47 13 Austrian Embassy in Poland FAX: (+48) 61 868 47 13 Embassy of Austria in Warsaw, Poland EMAIL: - ul. Gagarina 34, 00-748 Warsaw, Poland OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Thurday 09.00-16.00 PHONE: (+48) 22 841 00 81, (+48) 22 841 00 82 FAX: (+48) 22 841 00 85 WEBSITE: http://www.bmeia.gv.at/botschaft/warschau.html
Algerian Embassy in Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Embassy of Algeria in Warsaw, Poland ul. Dabrowiecka 21, 03-932 Warszawa, Poland
PHONE: (+48) 22 617 58 55, (+48) 22 617 59 31 Austrian Consulate in Poland FAX: (+48) 22 616 00 81 Austrian Consulate in Katowice, Poland WEBSITE: http://www.algerianembassy.pl ul. Mariacka 17, 40-014 Katowice, Poland EMAIL: [email protected]; PHONE: (+48) (32) 358 37 00 [email protected] FAX: (+48) (32) 353 01 94 OFFICE HOURS: 09.00-16.00 EMAIL: [email protected]
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Austrian Consulate in Poland Belarusian Consulate in Poland Consulate General of Austria in Krakow, Poland Belarussian Consulate General in Bialystok, Poland ul. Napoleona Cybulskiego 9, 31-123 Krakow, Poland ul. Elektryczna 9, 15-080 Bialystok, Poland PHONE: (+48) 12 424 99 30, (+48) 12 424 99 40 PHONE: (+48) 85 664 99 40, (+48) 85 664 99 46 FAX: (+48) 12 421 67 64 FAX: (+48) 85 664 99 58 WEBSITE: http://www.bmeia.gv.at/botschaft/gk- EMAIL: [email protected] krakau.html OFFICE HOURS: 09:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 17:00 EMAIL: [email protected]
Belarusian Consulate in Poland Austrian Consulate in Poland Consulate of the Republic of Belarus in Biala Austrian Consulate in Poznan, Poland Podlaska ul. Aleksandra Fredry 1/18 , 61-701 Poznan, Poland ul. Sitnicka 77, 21-500 Biala Podlaska, Poland PHONE: (+48) 61 855 1991-119 PHONE: (+48) 83 342 18 14 FAX: (+48) 61 855 1991-126 FAX: (+48) 83 342 18 17 EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: 09:00 - 16:00
Austrian Consulate in Poland Consulate of Austria in Lodz, Poland Belarusian Consulate in Poland ul. Klaretynska 9 , 91-117 Lodz, Poland Belarussian Consulate General in Gdansk, Poland PHONE: (+48) (42) 652 72 12 ul. Noakowskiego 9 , 80-313 Gdansk, Oliwa, Poland FAX: (+48) (42) 652 72 12 PHONE: (+48) 58 341 00 26, (+48) 58 341 80 88 EMAIL: [email protected] FAX: (+48) 58 341 40 26 EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: 08:00 - 15:00
Austrian Consulate in Poland Consulate of Austria in Wroclaw, Poland ul Buska 9/5, 53-326 Wroclaw, Poland Belgian Embassy in Poland PHONE: (+48) (71) 361 75 60 Embassy of Belgium in Warsaw, Poland FAX: (+48) (71) 361 75 60 Ulica Senatorska, 34 , 00-095 Warsaw , Poland EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: +48 22 551 28 00 OFFICE HOURS: 10:00 - 12:00 FAX: +48 22 828 57 11, +48 22 551 28 88 WEBSITE: http://diplomatie.belgium.be/poland EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday 09:00 - 12:00 Azerbaijani Embassy in Poland
Embassy of Azerbaijan in Warsaw, Poland Zwyciezcow str. 12, Warsaw 03-941, Poland PHONE: (+4822) 616 21 88, (+4822) 617 67 28 Belgian Consulate in Poland FAX: (+4822) 616 19 49 Honorary Consulate of Belgium in Gdynia, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Zarzad Morskiego Portu Gdynia S.A. Ul. Rotterdamska 9 , 81-337 Gdynia , Poland PHONE: +48 58 601 680 058, +48 58 627 40 36 FAX: +48 58 620 31 91 Bangladeshi Consulate in Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Bangladeshi Consulate in Katowice, Poland ul. Partyzantów 5, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland PHONE: (+48) (32) 266 84 84 EMAIL: - Belgian Consulate in Poland Honorary Consulate of Belgium in Bydgoszcz, Poland Ul. Kurpinskiego 12/6a , 85-096 Bydgoszcz , Poland PHONE: +48 52 515 30 63 Belarusian Embassy in Poland FAX: +48 52 379 62 73 Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Republic of EMAIL: [email protected] Poland ul. Wiertnicza 58 , 02-952 Warszawa, Poland
PHONE: (+48) 22 742 09 90, (+48) 22 842 52 02
FAX: (+48) 22 742 09 80
WEBSITE: http://poland.mfa.gov.by
EMAIL: [email protected]
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Belgian Consulate in Poland Brazilian Consulate in Poland Honorary Consulate of Belgium in Krakow, Poland Honorary Consulate of Brazil in Poznan, Brazil Ulica Pawia 34/3, 31-154 Krakow , Poland ul. Blazeja 86a, 61-609 Poznan, Poland PHONE: +48 12 442 11 41 PHONE: (+48) 601 746 504, (+48) 601 701 982 EMAIL: [email protected] FAX: (+48) (61) 824 46 80 EMAIL: [email protected]
Belgian Consulate in Poland Honorary Consulate of Belgium in Lodz, Poland Brazilian Consulate in Poland Ul. Tymienieckiego 25c/203 , 90-350 ?ód? , Poland Honorary Consulate of Brazil in Wroclaw, Poland PHONE: +48 42 630 04 33 ul. Mydlana 2, 51-502 Wroclaw , Poland EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: (+48) 607 700 840 EMAIL: [email protected]
Belgian Consulate in Poland Honorary Consulate of Belgium in Poznan, Poland Bulgarian Embassy in Poland Oblaczkowo 11ª (correspondence address) , Embassy of Bulgaria in Warsaw, Poland ul.Kmicica 2, 60-177 Poznan (address of the Al. Ujazdowskie 33/35, 00-540 Warszawa, Poland consulate), 62-300 Wrzesnia , Poland PHONE: +48 22 629 40 71/ 72/ 73 74/ 75 PHONE: +48 61 436 79 69, +48 698 976 581 FAX: +48 22 628 22 71 FAX: +48 61 436 74 83 WEBSITE: http://www.mfa.bg/embassies/poland EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected]
Bosnian Embassy in Poland Bulgarian Consulate in Poland Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Warsaw, Honorary Consulate of Bulgaria in Wroclaw, Poland Poland ul. Piotra Skargi 7/1, 50-082 Wroclaw , Poland Humanska 10,, 00-789 Warszawa, Poland PHONE: (+48) 71 783 39 28 PHONE: + (48 22) 856 99 35 FAX: (+48) 71 346 01 36 FAX: + (48 22) 848 15 21 OFFICE HOURS: 08:00 - 16:00 WEBSITE: http://ambasadabih.pl EMAIL: [email protected]
Canadian Embassy in Poland Embassy of Canada in Warsaw, Poland Brazilian Embassy in Poland Ul. Okrezna 62 02-925, Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Brazil in Warsaw, Poland PHONE: 48(22) 858 2333 48(22) 858 2330 48(22) ul. Bajonska 15, 03-963 Warsaw, Poland 858 2331 48(22) 858 2332 PHONE: (+48) 22 617 48 00 FAX: 48(22) 858 2329 FAX: (+48) 22 617 86 89 EMAIL: [email protected] ; WEBSITE: http://www.brasil.org.pl [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: 9:30-17:00
Brazilian Consulate in Poland Chilean Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Honorary Consulate of Brazil in Krakow, Poland Embassy of Chile in Warsaw, Poland ul. Wroceawska 53, 2nd floor , 30-011 Krakow , Ul. Okrezna 62 02-925, Warsaw, Poland Poland CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (+48) (12) 633 40 88 PHONE: 48(22) 858 2333 FAX: (+48) (12) 637 71 80 48(22) 858 2330 EMAIL: [email protected] 48(22) 858 2331 OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday, Thursday 10:00 - 16:00 48(22) 858 2332 FAX: 48(22) 858 2329 WEBSITE: http://www.embachile.pl EMAIL: [email protected],[email protected] Brazilian Consulate in Poland
Honorary Consulate of Brazil in Lublin, Poland
Instytut Filologii Romanskiej Plac Marii Curie
Skeodowskiej 4A, pok. , 436 20-031 Lublin , Poland
PHONE: (+48) 605 370 982
EMAIL: [email protected]
OFFICE HOURS: Monday 14:00 - 16:00
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Cuban Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Cuba in Warsaw, Poland Chilean Consulate in Gdansk, Poland UL. Rejtana 15 M 8, 02-516 Warsaw, Poland Honorary Consulate of Chile in Gdansk, Poland CITY: Warsaw Ul.Swietojanska 135/5, , 81-401 Gdynia PHONE: (4822) 848 1715 CITY: Gdansk (4822) 646 1178 PHONE: 48-58-6227425 FAX: (4822) 848 2231 FAX: 48-58-6221406 WEBSITE: http://www.cubadiplomatica.cu/polonia/ EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Chilean Consulate in Cracovia, Poland Honoray Consulate of Chile in Cracovia, Poland Cypriot Consulate in Gdynia, Poland ul. Florianska 3, Krakow 31-019, Cracovia, Poland Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Cyprus in CITY: Cracovia Gdynia, Poland PHONE: 48-12-422 8907 35, I. Armii Wojska Polskiego Str. , 81-383 Gdynia, FAX: 48-12-422 8907 Poland EMAIL: [email protected] CITY: Gdynia PHONE: (004858) 6209443, (0048) 605 329077 FAX: (004858) 6201600 EMAIL: [email protected] Chinese Embassy in Poland OFFICE HOURS: 10:00 - 12:00 (Mon. - Fr.) Chinese Embassy General in Warsaw, Poland
Ul. Bonifraterska, 00951 Warsaw, Poland PHONE: +48-58-3402626 FAX: +48-58-3415600 Cypriot Embassy in Warsaw, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Warsaw, Poland ul. Pilicka 4, 02-629 Warsaw, Poland CITY: Warsaw Colombian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland PHONE: + 4822 8444577 Embassy of Colombia in Warsaw, Poland + 4822 8440816 Ul Zwyciezcow 29 03-936, Warsaw, Poland + 4822 8167600 (Res.) CITY: Warsaw FAX: + 4822 8442558 PHONE: 009 48 22 6177157 EMAIL: [email protected] 009 48 22 6170973 OFFICE HOURS: 09:00 - 17:00 FAX: 009 48 22 6176684
EMAIL: [email protected]
Cypriot Consulate in Szczecin, Poland Honorary Consul of the Republic of Cyprus - Costa Rican Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Szczecin Embassy of Costa Rica in Warsaw, Poland 9, Pl. Hldu Pruskiego, 70-550 Szczecin, Poland Ul. Kubickiego 9, M.5 02-954 , Warsaw, Poland CITY: Szczecin CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (004891) 4340665/ 4310770 PHONE: (0048) 22 858 9112 FAX: (004891) 4341542 FAX: (0048) 22 642 7832 EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: 09:00 16:00 OFFICE HOURS: 9 am to 3 pm
Czech Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Croatian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of the Czech Republic in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Warsaw, ul. Koszykowa 18 , 00-555 Warsaw, Poland Poland CITY: Warsaw Ignacego Krasickiego 25 02-611, Warszaw, Poland PHONE: 004822/52 51 850 CITY: Warsaw FAX: 004822/52 51 898 PHONE: (0048 22) 8441 225 WEBSITE: http://www.mzv.cz/warsaw (0048 22) 844 39 94 EMAIL: [email protected] FAX: (0048 22) 844 0567 OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Friday 08.00 - 16.30 (0048 22) 844 22 70
WEBSITE: http://pl.mvp.hr
EMAIL: [email protected]
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Al. Najswietszej Maryi Panny 24/18, , 42-200 Czestochowa Czech Consulate in Warsaw, Poland CITY: Czestochowa Consular department of the Embassy of the Czech PHONE: 0048/343720551 Republic in Warsaw, Poland FAX: 0048/343720553 Al. Roz 12, Varsava, , Polsko, 00-556 Warsaw EMAIL: [email protected] CITY: Warsaw OFFICE HOURS: Wendesday 10:00 - 14:00 PHONE: 0048/225251850, 0048/225251890
FAX: KO- 0048/226217-234 EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Thursday 09 - 12.00 Czech Consulate in WrocBaw, Poland Honorary Consulate of the Czech Republic in POLAND Buska 5a, 53-326 WrocBaw CITY: WrocBaw Czech Consulate in Szczecin, Poland PHONE: 0048/717987610 Honorary Consulate of the Czech Republic in FAX: 0048/717987614 Szczecin, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Plac HoBdu Pruskiego 9, Szczecin, 70-550 OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday 10.00 - 15.00 CITY: Szczecin
PHONE:0048/914342674 0048/914342690 FAX: 0048/914342712 Czech Consulate in Bydgoszcz, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Honorary Consulate of the Czech Republic in POLAND DBuga 27, Bydgoszcz CITY: Bydgoszcz Czech Consulate in Poznan, Poland PHONE: 0048/523317425 Honorary Consulate of the Czech Republic in Poznan, FAX: 0048/523317425 Poland EMAIL: [email protected] ul. Dabrowskiego 17, , 61-838 Poznan
CITY: Poznan PHONE: 0048/618473626 FAX: 0048/618477016 Danish Embassy in Warszawa, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Royal Danish Embassy in Poland OFFICE HOURS: Monday, Wendesday 10.00 - 15.00 Ul. Rakowiecka 19, 02-517 CITY: Warszawa PHONE: +48 22 565 29 00 FAX: +48 22 565 29 70 Czech Consulate in Katowice, Poland WEBSITE: http://www.ambwarszawa.um.dk Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Katowice, EMAIL: [email protected] Poland
PawBa Stalmacha 21, Katowice, 40 058 CITY: Katowice PHONE: 004832/6099952 Ecuadorian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland 004832/6099953 Embassy of Ecuador in Poland 004832/6099966 ULICA REJTANA 15/15, 02-516 WARSZAWA, Warsaw 004832/6099963 (warszawa) FAX: 004832/2515567 CITY: Warsaw 004832/6099965 PHONE: (48 22) 848 72 30; (48 22) 848 81 96 EMAIL: [email protected] FAX: (48 22) 848 81 96 EMAIL: [email protected]
Czech Consulate in Warsaw, Poland Czech Center in POLAND Egyptian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Al. Roz 16, 00-556 Warsaw Embassy of Egypt in Warsaw, Poland CITY: Warsaw 18 Alzacka St. , 03-972 Warsaw PHONE: 0048/226297271 CITY: Warsaw FAX: 004822/6283320 PHONE: (0048 22) 5906600 – 5906601- 5906602 WEBSITE: http://www.czechcentres.cz/warsaw FAX: (0048 22) 6179058 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Friday 09.00 - 17.00 http://http://www.mfa.gov.eg/english/embassies/Eg yptian_Embassy_Poland/Pages/default.aspx EMAIL: [email protected]
Czech Consulate in Czestochowa, Poland
Honorary Consulate of the Czech Republic in
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French Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Estonian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of France in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Estonia in Poland Ulica Piekna 1 - 00-477, Warszawa, Poland Karwinska 1, 02 - 639, Warsaw CITY: Warsaw CITY: Warsaw PHONE: [48] (22) 529 30 00 PHONE: (48 22) 88 11 810 FAX: [48] (22) 529 30 01 FAX: (48 22) 88 11 812 WEBSITE: http://www.ambafrance-pl.org/ WEBSITE: http://www.estemb.pl/ EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected]
French Consulate in Makati, Poland Estonian Consulate in Szczecin, Poland Consular Section of the Embassy of France in Honorary Consul in Szczecin Warsaw, Poland Ul. Kurza Stopka 5/cd , 70-535 Szczecin , Poland Ulica Piekna 1 - 00-477, Warsaw CITY: Szczecin CITY: Makati PHONE: (48 91) 812 3820 PHONE: [48] (22) 529 30 00 FAX: (48 91) 812 3824 FAX: [48] (22) 529 30 04 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: http://www.ambafrance-pl.org EMAIL: [email protected]
Estonian Consulate in Poznan, Poland Honorary Consul in Poznan French Consulate in Krakow, Poland Poznan School of Social Sciences , Ul. Glogowska 26 Consulate General of France in Krakow, Poland , 60-734 PoznaD Poland Ulica Stolarska 15 - 31-043 Krakow CITY: Poznan CITY: Krakow PHONE: (48 604) 558 899, (48 61) 886 28 40 PHONE: [48] (12) 424 53 00 FAX: (48 61) 886 28 39 FAX: [48] (12) 424 53 20 WEBSITE: http://www.konsulat-estonii.pl/ WEBSITE: http://www.cracovie.org.pl/ EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected]
Estonian Consulate in Krakow, Poland Georgian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Honorary Consul in Krakow Embassy of Georgia in Warsaw, Poland Florianska 15/4, 31-019 Krakow, Poland N6 BerneDska Str. CITY: Krakow CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (48 12) 4291210 PHONE: + (48 22) 616-62-21/22/25, 617-41-87 FAX: (48 12) 4228036 (Consular Office) EMAIL: [email protected] FAX: + (48 22) 616-62-26, 617-41-87 (Consular Office) WEBSITE: http://www.poland.mfa.gov.ge EMAIL: [email protected]
Finnish Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Finland in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Finland, Ul. Fr. Chopina 4/8, 00-559 German Embassy in Warszawa, Poland CITY: Warsaw German Embassy in Poland PHONE: +48-22-598 9500 ul. Dabrowiecka 30, 03-932 FAX: +48-22-621 3442, 629 3442 CITY: Warszawa EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: +48-22-58 41 700 OFFICE HOURS: Customer Service: Mon-Fri 9.00- FAX: +48-22-58 41 739 11.00 WEBSITE: http://www.ambasadaniemiec.pl EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: Od poniedziaBku do pitku: 9.00 - 12.00 oraz po uprzednim umówieniu si Finnish Consulate in Gdynia, Poland
Honorary Consulate of Finland in Gdynia , Poland Honorary Consulate of Finland, Ul. Morska 59, 81- 323 Greek Embassy in Warsaw, Poland CITY: Gdynia Embassy of Greece in Warsaw, Poland PHONE: +48-58-621 6852 Ul. Gornoslaska 35, 00-432 FAX: +48-58-661 4864 CITY: Warsaw EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: (+48 22) 622 94 60-1 OFFICE HOURS: Customer service: Mon, Fri 9.00 - FAX: (+48 22) 622 94 64 12.00 WEBSITE: http://www.greece.pl EMAIL: [email protected]
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Irish Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Greenlandic Embassy in Warszawa, Poland Embassy of Ireland in Poland Royal Danish Embassy in Poland ul. Mysia 5, 6th Floor00-496 ul. Rakowiecka 19, 02-517 Warszawa CITY: Warsaw CITY: Warszawa PHONE: +48-22-849-6633 PHONE: +48 (22) 565 29 00 FAX: +48-22-849-8431 FAX: +48 (22) 565 29 70 WEBSITE: http://www.embassyofireland.pl WEBSITE: http://www.ambwarszawa.um.dk OFFICE HOURS: Public office is open from EMAIL: [email protected] 09.0013.00 and 14.0017.00 Visa Office is open to OFFICE HOURS: Monday: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm the public and for telePHONE: enquires from 09.00- Tuesday to Thursday: 8:30 to 4:00 pm Friday: 8:30 13.00 only am to 3:00 pm DETAILS: The Faroe Islands and Greenland are part of the Kingdom of Denmark. As a main principle, the Irish Consulate in Poznan, Poland Danish Constitution stipulates that the foreign and Honorary Consul of Ireland in Poland security interests for all parts of the Kingdom of ul. Kramarska 1, 61 - 855 Denmark are the responsibility of the Danish CITY: Poznan government. PHONE: 00 48 61 853 1894
FAX: 00 48 61 853 1894 EMAIL: [email protected] Hungarian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Hungary in Warsaw, Poland ul.Fryderika Chopina 2. 00-559 Warsaw Israeli Embassy in Warsaw, Poland CITY: Warsaw Embassy of Israel in Poland PHONE: 22-6284451 24 Ludwika Krzywickiego St., 02-078 Warsaw, FAX: 22-6218561 Poland
CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (0048 0-22) 597 05 02; (0048 0-22) 597 Indian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland 05 00 Embassy of India in Poland FAX: ( 48 22 ) 825 16 07 Ul. Rejtana 15, Flats 2-7, 02-516 WEBSITE: http://warsaw.mfa.gov.il CITY: Warsaw EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: 00-48-22-8495800, 8496257 FAX: 00-48-22-8496705 WEBSITE: http://www.indianembassy.pl/ Italian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Embassy of Italy in Warsaw, Poland
Plac Dabrowskiego, Varsavia, 6 00-055 CITY: Warsaw Indonesian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland PHONE: +48 22 826 34 71 The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Warsaw, FAX: +48 22 827 85 07 Poland WEBSITE: http://www.ambvarsavia.esteri.it 3/5 Estonska Street, 03-903 Warsaw, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] CITY: Warsaw PHONE: 0 22/ 617 51 79, 0 22/ 617 51 08 FAX: (4822) 6174455 Jamaican Consulate in Warsaw, Poland WEBSITE: http://www.indonezja.plocman.pl/ Jamaican Consulate in Poland EMAIL: [email protected] ul. Hubickiego 27 05-140 Serock OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Thursday: 09.00 - 15.00 CITY: Warsaw Friday: 09.00 - 13.00 PHONE: 48-22-782-71-35
FAX: 48-22-782-71-35 EMAIL: [email protected] Iraqi Embassy in Warsaw, Poland OFFICE HOURS: Call the cellular tel. for contact Embassy of The Republic of Iraq in Poland Poland , Warsow , Ul.Dbrowiecka 9A03-932,Warsaw CITY: Warsaw Japanese Embassy in Warsaw, Poland PHONE: 004822 - 6174911 / 004822 - 6175773 Embassy of Japan in Warsaw, Poland FAX: 004822 - 6177065 Ul.Szwolezerow 8, 00-464, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] CITY: Warsaw
PHONE: +48-22-696-5000
FAX: +48-22-696-5001
WEBSITE: http://www.emb-japan.pl/
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Kazakhstani Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Warsaw Latvian Consulate in Lodz, Poland ul. Krolowej Marysienki 14, , 02-954 Honorary Consulate of Latvia CITY: Warsaw Al. Tadeusza Kosciuszki 35, 90-418 Lodz, Poland PHONE: +4822-642-27-63; 642-53-88 CITY: Lodz FAX: +4822-642-34-27 PHONE: (+48-42) 6339768 WEBSITE: http://www.kazakhstan.pl EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected]
Lebanese Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Kuwaiti Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Lebanon in Warsaw, Poland Kuwaiti Embassy in Warsaw, Poland ul. Staro[ciDska 1 B m. 10-11, 02-516 ul. Franciszka Nullo 13, 00-486 CITY: Warsaw CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (+48) 22 844 50 65 PHONE: (+48-22) 6222860, 6220326, 6220287, FAX: (+48) 22 646 00 30 6222594 FAX: : OFFICE HOURS: 08:30-15:00 FAX: (+48-22) 6274314
Lithuanian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Lao or Laotian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic Embassy of the Lao PDR in Warsaw, Poland of Poland Al. Ujazdowskie 14, 00-478 Warsaw, , UL Rejtana 15/26, 02-516 Warsaw, Poland Poland CITY: Warsaw CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (+48) 22 848 47 86, (+48) 22 848 89 49 PHONE: (48 22) 625 33 68 FAX: (+48 22) 497-122 FAX: (48 22) 625 34 40 EMAIL: [email protected], WEBSITE: [email protected] http://www.lietuva.pl/index.php?language=lt&langua OFFICE HOURS: 09:00-12:00 and 14:00-16:00 ge=en EMAIL: [email protected]
Latvian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Latvian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Lithuanian Consulate in Warsaw, Poland ul. Krýlowej Aldony 19, 03-928 Warsaw, Poland Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania in CITY: Warsaw Warsaw, Poland PHONE: (48) 22 617 43 89; (48) 22 617 45 89 Al. Ujazdowskie 12, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland FAX: (48) 22 617 42 89 CITY: Warsaw WEBSITE: http://www.am.gov.lv/poland PHONE: (48 22) 635 97 94 EMAIL: [email protected] FAX: (48 22) 635 60 54 OFFICE HOURS: 09:00-16:00 WEBSITE: http://consulate-warsaw.mfa.lt EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday 10.00-12.00
Latvian Consulate in Katowice, Poland Honorary Consulate of Latvia ul. Staromiejska 4, 40-013 Katowice, Poland Macedonian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland CITY: Katowice Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia in Warsaw, PHONE: (+48-32) 2539004 Republic of Poland FAX: [email protected] Krolowej Marysienki 40, 02-954 Warszawa CITY: Warsaw PHONE: 48 22 651 72 91 FAX: 48 22 651 72 92 Latvian Consulate in Gdansk, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Honorary Consulate of Latvia ul. Ogarna 99/100, 80-826 Gdansk, Poland
CITY: Gdansk
PHONE: (+48-58) 3059285
FAX: (+48-58) 3059284
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Malaysian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Malaysia in Warsaw, Poland Monegasque Consulate in Warsaw, Poland No. 3, Gruzinska Str.,, Saska Kepa,, 03-902, Monegasque Honorary Consulate in Warsaw, Poland Warsaw, Republic of Poland Al. Ujazdowskie, 10, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland CITY: Warsaw CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (+4822) 617 4413; (+4822) 617 3144 PHONE: (+48) 22 437 84 66 FAX: (+4822) 617 6256 / 616 0590 FAX: (+48) 22 437 83 39 WEBSITE: EMAIL: [email protected] http://www.kln.gov.my/perwakilan/warsaw EMAIL: [email protected]; [email protected] Mongolian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday 8.30 am to 4.30 Mongolian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland pm Holiday : Saturday and Sunday ul. Rejtana 15 m.16, 00478 Warszawa, Poland
CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (+48) 22-849 9391 Maltese Consulate in Warsaw, Poland FAX: (+48) 22-848 2063 Maltese Consulate in Warsaw, Poland WEBSITE: http://http://www.warsawa.mfa.gov.mn/ Sardynska 5m 35, 02-761, Warszawa, U1, Poland ; http://www.ambasadamongolii.pl/ CITY: Warsaw EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: +48.22.642.1556 OFFICE HOURS: 08.00-16.00 FAX: +48.22.642.8164 EMAIL: [email protected]
Moroccan Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Morocco in Warsaw, Poland Mauritian Consulate in Warsaw, Poland ul. Staro[ciDska 1 m. 11-12, 02-516 Warszawa, Mauritian Honorary Consulate in Warsaw, Poland Poland ul Brodzinskiego 27, 01-557 Warsaw, Poland CITY: Warsaw CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (+48) 22 849 63 41 PHONE: (+48) 22 486 3007 FAX: (+48) 22 848 18 40 FAX: (+48) 22 839 1078 WEBSITE: http://www.moroccoembassy.org.pl WEBSITE: http://http://www.mauritius- EMAIL: [email protected] embassy.de/honorary-consulates.php OFFICE HOURS: 09.00-16.00 EMAIL: [email protected]
Dutch Consulate in Gdansk, Poland Mexican Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Honorary Consulate of Netherlands in Gdansk, Mexican Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Poland Aleje Jerozolimskie 123-a, 20th floor, 02-017 ul. Dlugi Targ 33/34, 80-830 Gdansk Warszawa, Poland CITY: Gdansk CITY: Warsaw PHONE: +48 58 7214900 PHONE: (+48) 22 311 29 00 FAX: +48 58 7214906 FAX: (+48) 22 311 29 01 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: http://http://embamex.sre.gob.mx/polonia/ EMAIL: [email protected] Dutch Consulate in Poznan, Poland OFFICE HOURS: 09.00-13.00 and 14.30-18.00 Honorary Consulate of Netherlands in Poznan,
Poland ul. 27 Grudnia 13, 61-737 Poznan Moldovan Embassy in Warsaw, Poland CITY: Poznan Moldovan Embassy in Warsaw, Poland PHONE: +48 61 8527884 ul. Imielinska 1, 02-710 Warszawa, Poland FAX: +48 61 8527883 CITY: Warsaw EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: (+48) 22.646.20.99 FAX: (+48) 22.646.20.99 WEBSITE: http://http://www.polonia.mfa.md/ EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: 08.00-17.00 affairs) / Mrs. Lia ?URCAN - Second Secretary (political affairs).
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Dutch Consulate in Wrocklaw, Poland Palestinian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Honorary Consulate of Netherlands in Wrocklaw, Palestine Embassy in Poland ul. Kollataja 15, Biurowiec PKN Orlen, 50-950 1 ap. 7 Staroscinska Street, 02-516 Wroclaw CITY: Warsaw CITY: Wrocklaw PHONE: 48-22-8497772 PHONE: +48 71 344 49 85 FAX: 48-22-8567376 FAX: +48 71 344 52 71 WEBSITE: http://www.palestyna.pl EMAIL: info@centrum- EMAIL: [email protected] niderlandzkie.pl,[email protected]
Peruvian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Dutch Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Peru in Poland Royal Netherlands Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Brunnsgatan 21 B 111 38 Stockholm02-516 Ul. Kawalerii 10, 00-468 Warsaw Warszawa,, ul. Staroscinska 1 m.3 CITY: Warsaw CITY: Warsaw PHONE: 00-48-22-5591200 PHONE: + 48 22 6468806, + 48 22 6468807 FAX: 00-48-22-8402638 FAX: + 48 22 6468617 WEBSITE: http://www.mfa.nl/war-en/ WEBSITE: http://www.perupol.pl EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Friday from 09.00 till OFFICE HOURS: Poniedzialek - Piatek 9.00 - 15.00 13.00 and from 14.00 till 17.00
Peruvian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Kiwi Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of the Republic of Peru in Poland Embassy of New Zealand in Warsaw, Poland UL. Staroscinska 1, M. 3 & 4 Al. Ujazdowskie 51 , 00-536 Warszawa , Poland CITY: Warsaw CITY: Warsaw PHONE: +48-22-6468806 ; +48-22-6468807 PHONE: (+48) 22 521 05 00 FAX: +48-22-6468617 FAX: (+48) 22 521 05 10 WEBSITE: http://http://www.perupol.pl/ WEBSITE: http://www.nzembassy.com/poland EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: Mon-Fri 09:00-12:00 hrs 13:30- 16:00hrs Filipino Consulate in Warsaw, Poland
Consulate General of Philippines in Warsaw, Poland Ul. Lentza 11, , 02-956 Warsaw Norwegian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland CITY: Warsaw Royal Norwegian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland PHONE: (+48) 22 490 2025 ul. Chopina 2A,, 00-559 Warsaw FAX: (+48) 694 736 488 CITY: Warsaw EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: (22) 696 40 30 OFFICE HOURS: 09.00-17.00 FAX: (22) 628 09 38 WEBSITE: http://www.amb-norwegia.pl/ EMAIL: [email protected] Filipino Embassy in Warsaw, Poland
Philippine Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Lentza 11, Warsaw, Poland Pakistani Embassy in Warsaw, Poland CITY: Warsaw Embassy of Pakistan in Warsaw, Poland PHONE: (+48) 22- 490-2025 Chancery: Ul.Staroscinska 1,02-516 FAX: (+48) 602-541-012 CITY: Warsaw EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: 0048-22-8494808 or 0048- 22- 8494938 FAX: 0048-22-8491160 WEBSITE: http://www.pakembwaw.com.pl/ Portuguese Embassy in Warsaw, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Embassy of Portugal in Warsaw, Poland OFFICE HOURS: 08.30-16.30 UL. Zwyciezcow 12 03-941, Warsaw
CITY: Warsaw
PHONE: (00 4822) 617 60 21
FAX: (00 4822) 617 44 98
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Romanian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Seychelles Consulate in Gdansk, Poland Embassy of Romania in Warsaw, Poland Consulate of Seychelles in Poland ul. Chopina 10, 00-559 Warsaw Wzgorzu 36, 80296 CITY: Warsaw CITY: Gdansk PHONE: (00) (48) (22) 6283156 PHONE: [48 58] 347 96 69 FAX: (00) (48) (22) 6285264 or 62893.78 FAX: +48-58-345-16-83 WEBSITE: http://www.varsovia.mae.ro/ WEBSITE: EMAIL: [email protected] http://www.mfa.gov.sc/static.php?content_id=29 EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday, 1000 – 1500
Russian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Russia in Warsaw, Poland ul. Belwederska, 49, 00-761 Slovak Embassy in Warsawa, Poland CITY: Warsaw Embassy of Slovakia in Warsawa, Poland PHONE: +48 22 621-3453, 621-5575, 621-5954 ul. Litewska 6 FAX: +48 22 625-3016 CITY: Warsawa WEBSITE: http://www.poland.mid.ru PHONE: (+48-22) 5258110 EMAIL: [email protected] FAX: (+48-22) 5258122 OFFICE HOURS: 09.00-13.00 and 14.00-18.00 WEBSITE: http://www.mzv.sk/varsava EMAIL: [email protected]
Sammarinese Consulate in Warsaw, Poland Consulate General of San Marino in Warsaw, Poland Ul. Tucholska, 35, 01-618 Warszawa, Poland Slovak Consulate in Katowice, Poland CITY: Warsaw Consulate of Slovakia in Katowice, Poland PHONE: (+48) 22 839 59 41 ul. Rymera 3/1 FAX: (+48) 22 869 53 55 CITY: Katowice EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: (+48-32) 2570600 FAX: (+48-32) 2570644 EMAIL: [email protected]
Saudi Arabian Embassy in Poland Saudi Arabia Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Street Wiertnicza 30, Warsaw Slovak Consulate in Krakw, Poland PHONE: 0048221605000 Consulate of Slovakia in Poland FAX: 0048222233322 ul. Sw. Tomasza 34 WEBSITE: CITY: Krakw http://http://embassies.mofa.gov.sa/sites/poland/EN PHONE: (+48-12) 4254970 /Pages/default.aspx FAX: (+48-22) 4254972 EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: From 9 am - 3 p.m.
Slovak Consulate in Poznan, Poland Senegalese Consulate in Warszawa, Poland Consulate of Slovakia in Poland Senegal Consulate , Poland ul. Sw. Marcina 80/82 ul. Malborska 3/27, 03-286 CITY: Poznan CITY: Warszawa PHONE: (+48-61) 8537251 PHONE: +48-22-3320001/+48-22-3320002 FAX: (+48-61) 8537212 FAX: +48-22-3320003 EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected]
Slovak Consulate in Rzeszaw, Poland Serbian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Consulate of Slovakia in Poland Embassy of Serbia in Poland ul. Armii Krajowej 80 Al. Ujazdowskie 23/25, 00-540 CITY: Rzeszaw CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (+48-17) 8534586 PHONE: (+48-22)-6285161 /+48-22-6256041/+48- FAX: (+48-17) 8532883 22-6256052 EMAIL: [email protected] FAX: +48-22-6297173 EMAIL: [email protected]/[email protected] OFFICE HOURS: 08.00-16.00
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Slovak Consulate in Sopot, Poland Consulate of Slovakia in Sopot, Poland ul. Grunwaldzka 12-16 South African Embassy in Warsaw, Poland CITY: Sopot South African Embassy in Poland PHONE: (+48-58) 5511002 IPC Business Centre, 6th Floor, ul. Koszykowa 54, FAX: (+48-58) 5517278 Warsaw 00-675 CITY: Warsaw PHONE: + 48 22 625 6228/6233; + 48 22 625 7239/0325 Slovak Consulate in Szczecin, Poland FAX: + 48 22 625 6270 Consulate of Slovakia in Szczecin, Poland EMAIL: [email protected], ul. Plac Batorego 3 [email protected] CITY: Szczecin
PHONE: (+48-91) 4890661, 8125501 FAX: (+48-91) 4890522 EMAIL: [email protected] Korean Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of the Republic of Korea ul. Krasickiego 25, 02-611 Warsaw, Poland CITY: Warsaw Slovenian Embassy in Warsawa, Poland PHONE: (+48-22) 8483337, 8484075 Embassy of Slovenia in Warsawa, Poland FAX: (+48-22) 8446940 ul. Staroscinska 1 m. 23-24, 02-516
CITY: Warsawa PHONE: +48-22-8498282/+48-22-8498484 FAX: +48-22-8484090 Spanish Embassy in Warsaw, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Embassy of Spain In Warsaw UI. Mysliwiecka, 4, 00-459 Warszawa, Poland CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (+48) 22 622 42 50 / (+48) 22 583 40 00 Slovenian Consulate in Torun, Poland FAX: (+48) 22 622 54 08 Consulate of Slovenia in the Poland EMAIL: [email protected] ul. Chelminska 5 87-100 OFFICE HOURS: 08.30-18.00 CITY: Torun
PHONE: +48-56-6238890 FAX: +48-56-6238890 EMAIL: [email protected] Sri Lankan Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Sri Lankan Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Ul. Niedzwiedzia 2C 02-737 , Warszawa, Poland CITY: Warsaw Slovenian Consulate in Katowice, Poland PHONE: (+48-22) 8538896/7 Consulate of Slovenia in the Poland FAX: (+48-22) 8435348 ul. Mickiewicza 15, 3rd floor, flats 307-308 40-091 WEBSITE: http:// www.srilankaembassy.com.pl CITY: Katowice EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: +48-32-2599828
FAX: +48-32-2599828 WEBSITE: http://www.konsulat-slowenia.com.pl EMAIL: [email protected] Swiss Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of Switzerland in Warsaw , Poland Ujazdowskie 27, 00-540 Warszawa Poland Slovenian Consulate in Myslowice, Poland CITY: Warsaw Consulate of Slovenia in Myslowice, Poland PHONE: (+48) 22 628 04 81 / (+48) 22 628 04 82 ul. Mikolowska 29 41-400 FAX: (+48) 22 621 05 48 CITY: Myslowice WEBSITE: http://www.eda.admin.ch/warsaw PHONE: +48-32-3171444 EMAIL: [email protected] FAX: +48-32-3171486 OFFICE HOURS: Monday-Friday 9.00-12.00 WEBSITE: http://www.konsulat-slowenia.com.pl
EMAIL: [email protected]
Syrian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic in Warsaw, Slovenian Consulate in Torun, Poland Poland Consulate of Slovenia in the Poland ul. Goszczynskiego, 30 02-536 Warszawa, Poland ul. Chelminska 5 87-100 CITY: Warsaw CITY: Torun PHONE: (+48) 22 849 14 56 (+48) 22 848 48 09 PHONE: +48-56-6238890 FAX: (+48) 22 849 18 47 (+48) 22 848 91 78 FAX: +48-56-6238890 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: http://www.konsulat-slowenia.com.pl OFFICE HOURS: 08.30-14.30
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Ukrainian Consulate in Lublin, Poland Taiwanese Embassy in Warsaw, Poland Consulate General of Ukraine in Poland Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Warsaw, Polska, 20-078 Lublin Al. 3 Maja 14 Poland CITY: Lublin 30th Floor, 53 Emilia Plater Street, 00-113 Warsaw, PHONE: (0048 81)531 88 00 Poland FAX: (8 10 48 81) 531 88 88 CITY: Warsaw EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: (+ 48-22) 213 00 60 FAX: (+ 48-22) 213 00 70 WEBSITE: http://www.roc-taiwan.org/PL Ukrainian Consulate in Ryaschiv, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in Ryaschiv, Poland OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday 9: 00-17: 00 Ul. Mochnackiego 15, 35-016 Rzeszów
CITY: Ryaschiv PHONE: +48 17 850 09 49 Thai Embassy in Warsaw, Poland FAX: +48 862 21 24 Embassy of Thailand in Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Royal Thai Embassy, Ul. Willowa 7, 00-790 Warsaw CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (48-22) 849-26-55,849-64-14,849-14-06 British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland FAX: (48-22) 849-26-30 British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland WEBSITE: http://www.thaiembassy.org/warsaw ul. Kawalerii 12, 00-468 Warsaw, Mazowieckie EMAIL: [email protected] Poland OFFICE HOURS: Office HOURS: : 08.30 - 12.00 and CITY: Warsaw 13.00 - 17.00. PHONE: +48 22 311 00 00
FAX: +48 22 311 03 13 WEBSITE: Tunisian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland http://www.gov.uk/government/world/poland Embassy of Tunisia in Poland EMAIL: [email protected] ul. My?liwiecka 14 00-459 Warszawa Poland CITY: Warsaw PHONE: (+48) 22 628 63 30 / (+48) 22 628 25 86 American Embassy in Warsaw, Poland FAX: (+48) 22 621 62 95 United States Embassy in Warsaw, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Aleje Ujazdowskie 29/31, 00-540 Warsaw, Poland
CITY: Warsaw PHONE: +48-22/504-2000 Ukrainian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland WEBSITE: http://poland.usembassy.gov Embassy of Ukraine in Poland Al. J.Ch. Szucha 7, 00-580 Warszawa, Polska CITY: Warsaw Uruguayan Embassy in Warsaw, Poland PHONE: +48 (22) 629-34-46 / 629-05-79 Embassy of Uruguay in Warsaw, Poland FAX: +48 (22) 629-81-03 Ul. Rejtana 15., Ap. 12 02-516, Warsaw, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] CITY: Warsaw
PHONE: (4822) 849 50 40 /15 90 FAX: (00 4822) 646 68 87 Ukrainian Consulate in Gdansku, Poland EMAIL: - Consulate General of Ukraine in Gdansku, Poland ul. Bernarda Chrzanowskiego 60-A, 80-278 Gda?sk CITY: Gdansku Uzbekistani Embassy in Warszawa, Poland PHONE: +48583460690 / +48607654333 Embassy of Uzbekistan in Poland FAX: +48583460707 Kraski 21 02-804, Warszawa, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] / CITY: Warszawa [email protected] PHONE: (+48) 22 894 62 30
FAX: (+48) 22 894 62 31 WEBSITE: http://www.uzbekistan.pl Ukrainian Consulate in Kraków, Poland EMAIL: [email protected] Consulate of Ukraine in Kraków, Poland Al.Beliny-Pra?mowskiego 4, 31-514 Kraków CITY: Kraków PHONE: +48 12 429 60 66 FAX: +48 12 429 29 36 WEBSITE: http://www.ukraineinfo.gov.ua/main EMAIL: [email protected]
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Venezuelan Embassy in Warszawa, Poland Embassy of Venezuela in Poland Vietnamese Embassy in Warsaw, Poland ul. Rejtana 15 m. 10, 02-516 Warszawa, Poland Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in CITY: Warszawa Warsaw, Poland PHONE: +48-22-646 18 46 / +48-22-646 87 60 ul. Resorowa 36, 02-956, Warsaw, Poland FAX: +48-22-646 87 61 CITY: Warsaw EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: (+48) 22 651 60 98 FAX: (+48) 22 651 60 95 WEBSITE: http://www.vietnamembassy-poland.org EMAIL: [email protected]
Yemeni Embassy in Warsaw, Poland
Embassy of Yemen in Warsaw, Poland
ul. Królewicza Jakuba 54, 02-956 Warszawa, Poland
CITY: Warsaw
PHONE: (+48-22) 6176025 / 26
FAX: (+48-22) 6176022
WEBSITE: http://www.embassy-of-yemen.pl
EMAIL: [email protected]
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