I an ex-Londoner living in Lublin. It would be great to meet when you visit here in the summer. Regarding content, a series of interviews with other "foreigners' who have moved to Poland would be interesting: our reasons for moving, our experiences with life here, dealing with Polish bureaucracy () etc, etc.
@britinpoland23924 ай бұрын
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!
@TheEssexSpurs4 ай бұрын
My son is out is Warsaw right now. Been teaching English in Zakopane and loving it.
@michaelmckelvey51224 ай бұрын
Could I join him?
@marioborkowski58944 ай бұрын
No need to apologize, live your life how you want my friend. Good health
@britinpoland23924 ай бұрын
Thank you! Though keeping this channel going is definitely an important part of this life for me 😊
@Dabs-yi2vl4 ай бұрын
When you visit Krakow this year i highly recommend a visit to the Polish Aviation Museum, the "Mig alley" outdoor exhibits are a sight to behold. Also very easy to travel a bit further on the tram to Nowa Huta, also very interesting.
@michaelmckelvey51224 ай бұрын
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.
@britinpoland23924 ай бұрын
Thank you for the recommendation! I haven’t been there yet, though did see Nowa Huta one Christmas time 😊
@britinpoland23924 ай бұрын
Thanks Michael! Always appreciate the extra information you provide 😁
@Superchlopak19864 ай бұрын
Cześć Richard! Great new content. If you get the chance, the Zamek, beautiful walks and cycling around Vistula and concerts and watersports on the jezioro in Tarnobrzeg are well worth a visit when you are in Podkarpackie! 👌🏻👌🏻
@britinpoland23924 ай бұрын
Thanks for the tip 😊 Definitely want to get there!
@VintageVoyages4 ай бұрын
Ambitious travel plans! When travelling to Lublin, do not miss Majdanek labor camp, it is disturbing, but worth to visit.
@britinpoland23924 ай бұрын
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
@michaelmckelvey51224 ай бұрын
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!
@VintageVoyages4 ай бұрын
@@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
@michaelmckelvey51224 ай бұрын
@@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!
@VintageVoyages4 ай бұрын
@@michaelmckelvey5122 no problem, was happy to help 😁
@wojstube93594 ай бұрын
Hi. Thanks for the video. I have some questions for you. Maybe more people will be interested, if you are so kind to answer. 1. What you do in Poland, you would not do in Great Britain? (activities, selfdevelopement). 2 Isn't Poland's lower level of wealth compared to Great Britain a personal problem for you? 3. What can Polish people learn from you and your country? 4. What did you experience in Poland that you wouldn't experience in the UK? 5. Are the historical traumas of Poles and the difficult history of Poland an obstacle for you or rather an opportunity for your own development? 6. Would you recommend Poland as a good place to start a family and be happy. 7. What elements of British culture did you manage to transfer to Poland, i.e. acquaintances, friends, your surroundings? 8. Do you know other Brits who have chosen to live in Poland? What do they like and what don't they like? Here is a list of things that I personally admire in your country: 1. Rich history, 2. Great discoveries, 3. Great book releases, 4. High-quality television (BBC) 5. Gamedev (startu g in the 80's from bedroom coders), ZX Spectrum and Sir Clive Sinclair inventions.
@britinpoland23924 ай бұрын
Wow! Amazing list of questions 😁 Will answer them as best I can on a video for you!
@wojstube93594 ай бұрын
@@britinpoland2392 nice 🤗 Can't wait 😁 Cheers from Wejherowo (You've been here 😀).
@michaelmckelvey51224 ай бұрын
@@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.
@wojstube93594 ай бұрын
@@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!
@TheEssexSpurs4 ай бұрын
@@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!!!!
@michaelmckelvey51224 ай бұрын
Is this TVP the same thing as TV Polonia? We get it here in England, I have a satellite dish outside my bedroom window. It is a Polish language channel aimed very much a Polish communities that live overseas. I do not want to put you down but if it is the channel I watch, I very much doubt if they would be too interested as they would almost certainly prefer English people who speak Polish for their Polish-speaking audiences. Have you ever seen or heard of Kevin Aiston? He was a famous Englishman, who traveled and settled in Poland some twenty-five years ago. He was something of a celebrity as he worked as a fireman and they gave him a slot in a TV show as well as having regular slots on the radio, teaching English idioms to the Polish! I searched for him here on KZfaq and it looks like he may now be running his own restaurant. He was born in Chelsea and now lives in Mielec, Poland. I believe he has been married several times and has his own family there. As for TV Polonia, I only tend to watch M jak Milosc, a Polish series that runs in the winter and is around six months behind us here in the U.K. It is really rubbish but it gives me some useful Polish language practice as I am so rarely in Poland. Maybe a shame that I did not make the move all those thirty something years ago as thirty-five thousand pounds back then would have bought a really nice detached house and garden. Added to that, as a native Englishman with a good knowledge of Polish, a Russian language degree, and a T.E.S.O.L. certificate I wonder if there could have been many opportunities and doors that may have opened up for me back then. Sadly, my wife wanted no part of it! From her, I have learned Polish but with it came a humdrum life in England. I wonder if any of us ever really get what we want in life...
@britinpoland23924 ай бұрын
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!
@michaelmckelvey51224 ай бұрын
@@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.'
@supreme33764 ай бұрын
Not Really Tv Polonia is mostly for Polish Expats around a World
@michaelmckelvey51224 ай бұрын
@@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.
@katarzyna46674 ай бұрын
When you are in Wałbrzych, I recommend going to the nearby Świdnica and visiting the fabulous Kościół Pokoju there, which is on the UNESCO list.
@britinpoland23924 ай бұрын
It’s on my list, have been to it’s sister in Jawor already 😊 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtWKfJN42r-oZn0.htmlsi=3z0Y8V6PqBMYdXjj
@VintageVoyages4 ай бұрын
Świdnica Kosciol is amazing indeed, definitely must see
@michaelmckelvey51224 ай бұрын
Why do so many comments get deleted on this channel?
@britinpoland23924 ай бұрын
I have no idea…I haven’t deleted a comment in a long time, guess the censors are working overtime 😅
@michaelmckelvey51224 ай бұрын
@@britinpoland2392 O.K. I wondered if I wrote something slightly antipolish and you had taken it down!
@britinpoland23924 ай бұрын
@@michaelmckelvey5122 I try not to censor unless I see something horrific 😅 but KZfaq would take that sort of thing down normally