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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Poland
- Time Zone: GMT/UTC +1 (Eastern European Time)
- Electricity: 220V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellullar phone etc.)
- Weights & measures: Metric
Must See - Properties on UNESCO World Heritage List
- Poland Cracow's Historic Centre
- Wieliczka Salt Mine
- Auschwitz Concentration Camp
- Bialowieza Forest
- Historic Centre of Warsaw
- Old City of Zamosc
- Medieval Town of Torun
- Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork
- Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park
- Churches of Peace in Jawor and Swidnica
- Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland
- Park Muzakowski
Location of Poland
Central Europe, east of Germany
Polish Regions:
Poland consists of 16 provinces (voivodships) with largest Mazovia where Warsaw, capital of Poland is located.
Dolnoslaskie(Lower Silesia), Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Lodzkie, Lubelskie, Lubuskie, Malopolskie(Little Poland), Mazowieckie(Mazovia), Opolskie, Podkarpackie( Subcarpathia), Podlaskie, Pomorskie(Pomerania), Slaskie(Silesia), Swietokrzyskie, Warminsko-Mazurskie(Warmia & Mazury), Wielkopolskie(Greater Poland), Zachodniopomorskie (Western Pomerania)
Learn Polish in Poland
Polish Basic Words
Yes - Tak (tahk)
No - Nie (neh)
Thank you - Dziękuję (dzhehnkooyeh)
Please - Proszę (prosheh)
I'm sorry - Przepraszam (pshehprahshahm)
Excuse me - Przepraszam (pshehprahshahm)
Hi -Cześć (cheshch)
Hello - Dzień dobry (dzhehn dobri)
Goodbye - Do widzenia(do veedzehnah)
Good morning - Dzień dobry (dzhehn dobri)
Good night - Dobranoc (dobrahnots)
How are you? -Jak się, masz? (yahk syeh mash)
Vegetarian - Wegetarianin (vehgehtahryahneen)
Cheers! - Na zdrowie! (nah zdrovyeh)
Coffee - Kawa (kahvah)
Tea - Herbata (hehrbahtah)
Juice - Sok
Water - Woda (vodah)
Some Polish Dishes
In Polish cuisine you will find a lot of sauerkraut, beetroot, cucumbers, sour cream, eggs, mushrooms, dill, sausages and smoked sausages. If you are vegeterian you can find some vegeterian dishes as well.
- Golabki, or cabbage rolls - cabbage rolls stuffed with meat cooked in sauce
- Bigos - Hunter's Stew - cooked, seasoned sauerkraut "hunter" stew with various kinds of meats and sausages
- Kielbasa - sausage seasoned with special spices ( are speciality of Poland)
- Pierogi - dumplings with a wide variety of fillings
- Barszcz czerwony - hot refreshing beetroot soup, sometimes with dumplings
- Żurek - sour rye soup with potato, sausage or an egg, sometimes served in a bread loaf
- Placki kartoflane - potato pancakes
- Makowiec - sweet poppy cake
- Nalesniki - omelets stuffed with meat or jam, fruit, etc. very similar to crepes
- Sernik- delicious cheese cake
Poland Travel and Accommodation – Your Tips for Travelers
If you would like to share your experiences of traveling to Poland or to any other country, please send us your article and we will gladly post it at this website.
About Poland by Joe Wiebe
Honeymoon in Poland - Warsaw by Joe Wiebe
Honeymoon in Poland - Krakow by Joe Wiebe
Honeymoon in Poland - Gdansk by Joe Wiebe
Travel to Poland - Tips – I by Jagoda Urban-Klaehn
Travel to Poland - Tips – II by Jagoda Urban-Klaehn
Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland by Donna M. Kocinski
Wieliczka Salt Mine, Part II by Donna M. Kocinski
Warsaw Travel Guide by Jagoda Urban-Klaehn
Bialowieza Forest; Polish Bison; Bison Grass; Bison Vodka by Lorraine Grochowski Kiefer
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