We will take our group to Lublin the last weekend of July I believe, I’m sure you could join us for a drink! And noted on the interviews, will try and grab the time from my friends out here!

Could I join him?

Thank you! Though keeping this channel going is definitely an important part of this life for me 😊

From the center of Krakow, take the number 52 tram, you can not see the museum from the tram but there is a dedicated tram stop. If you can, go on a Tuesday as entry is free! I always think that one of the best things to see there is a nice old plane that was actually Edward Gierek's! Also, of course, is the Russian helicopter, I believe it was Pope John Paul 11's own helicopter, they even open it each day at various times to see inside the cockpit. ''Mig alley'' refers to the Russian fighter jet, the Mig, named after its designers-Микаян и Гуревич, Mikajan came from Armenia, as his name suggests, and there is a museum there on the outskirts of the capital, Yerevan though I have never been myself.

Thank you for the recommendation! I haven’t been there yet, though did see Nowa Huta one Christmas time 😊

Thanks Michael! Always appreciate the extra information you provide 😁

Thanks for the tip 😊 Definitely want to get there!

Oh I’ve been there! As you say, it’s a very haunting place to visit! Majdanek - Nazi concentration camp in Poland’s East kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdmigdyL1pzMqp8.html

Actually, many years ago, I was driving in my car away from Lublin and was on the road going past Majdanek. I turned off the road and visited the former camp. I found it strange to say the least, nothing original was left, just concrete slabs were put down to represent memorials of some sort-all very odd indeed. There was the outline of where the train track would have been but very little else, it felt like being somewhere in England after the Doctor Beeching reforms of the 1960's!

@@michaelmckelvey5122 I think you talk about Treblinka, which was completely dismantled by Nazis and now have only monuments there. Majdanek in opposite is completely intact, as Nazis did not have time to destroy it - so it has all original barracks, gas chambers, crematorium etcetera

@@VintageVoyages Yes, sorry, you might be right! I take it all back what I said, bardzo, bardzo przepraszam, jak moja zona zawsze do mnie mowi; 'ty jestes bezmozgowcem i tyle!

@@michaelmckelvey5122 no problem, was happy to help 😁

Wow! Amazing list of questions 😁 Will answer them as best I can on a video for you!

@@britinpoland2392 nice 🤗 Can't wait 😁 Cheers from Wejherowo (You've been here 😀).

@@wojstube9359 I have been to Wejherowo too back in 1985. I remember taking a small train from Gdansk main rail station and the line ended in Wejherowo. I remember asking a rail employee if my train ticket was alright for Slupsk and he replied to me: 'уже плохо'-'already not valid.' I then took a second train from here to Slupsk, I remember it being bitterly cold, it was winter and the train carriages were double-deckers. I had never seen double-decker train carriages before. I remember standing on the platform and it was still driven by steam, even as late as 1985. The steam engine's heat from the boiler helped to keep me warm even though I was standing on a different platform! I remember little then except arriving in Slupsk and taking a village bus to a village called Bialogarda and then the long journey home again to Gdansk.

@@michaelmckelvey5122 Wow! Incredible adventure. It sounds like it would be in another world. A lot has changed in 40 years. Although old trains still run, they have been thoroughly renovated. However, there are no more steam locomotives, but double-decker trains can be found in the summer season. I have been living in Wejherowo since 2008, but before that I lived in Gdynia and rode the SKM train in the 1990s as a student. Cheers!

@@michaelmckelvey5122 yeah I went to poland in 1989 to watch england play in a World Cup Qualifier and I had never seen double decker trains before.I remember Krakow you could actually see and taste the air it was so polluted!!!!

They haven’t mentioned anything about speaking Polish in the interview and they are taking a range of candidates from different countries, so I wonder about dubbing or subtitles being used… Still, hoping but not getting my hopes up 😅 And indeed you would have done well moving here with those credentials! At least you have a loving wife 😊 And no, I haven’t seen this other Englishman, will look out for him!

@@britinpoland2392 I have just looked again myself. When you get a moment, type him into your search engine, there are lots of photos as well as interviews. In fact, he looks like a Polish fireman and not very English at all! It might help you to motivate yourself in the need to learn Polish yourself. He obviously needed fluent Polish as he was, I believe, a leading hand in the service and you can obviously not do something like that without a mastery of the language. Mind you, when you think that the United Kingdom had to accept a million Polish economic migrants and Poland has accepted so few that even just one becomes a film star rather goes to show the futility of this so-called economic free movement of people around the E.U. economic area. In your film, you show the two new museums and all the work being carried out in refurbishing the parks yet British schools, hospitals, and roads are simply crumbling. I often wonder as to how much money has come from London via Brussels to Warsaw over the last thirty-five years or so. In fact, we talked about the aircraft museum in Krakow and Edward Gierek's plane. By coincidence, it was he who borrowed so much Western money that the country 'went to the wall.' I often wonder what happened to Poland's huge national debt and I am also unable to work out how economically Poland ever qualified to join the E.U. I personally think that Sir John Major and his Maastricht treaty allowing all of the former communist Eastern Block to join the E.U. not only was political folly but as good as high treason against the people of my country. Britain had the 'best of both worlds' in the fact that we were in an economic trading area called the Common Market, in Polish, E.W.G. (Ekonomiczna Wspolnota Gospodarcza) in a group of the eight original members, now we are outside of everything. The former useless Polish communist passport now carries more weight than the British one does. How 'the tables had turned' or as they say in Polish: 'sytuacja sie odwrocila.'

Not Really Tv Polonia is mostly for Polish Expats around a World

@@supreme3376 That is exactly what I said. Ich programy sa w ogolne juz nagrane i wszystko jest o Polsce dla Polakow ze wszystkich stron calego swiata. Ja ogladam w Anglii M jak Milosc zima po poludiu w sobote i w niedziele-programy sa co najmniej 6 miesiecy do tylu.

It’s on my list, have been to it’s sister in Jawor already 😊 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtWKfJN42r-oZn0.htmlsi=3z0Y8V6PqBMYdXjj

Świdnica Kosciol is amazing indeed, definitely must see

I have no idea…I haven’t deleted a comment in a long time, guess the censors are working overtime 😅

@@britinpoland2392 O.K. I wondered if I wrote something slightly antipolish and you had taken it down!

@@michaelmckelvey5122 I try not to censor unless I see something horrific 😅 but KZfaq would take that sort of thing down normally