An interview with me

www.expatinterviews.com

If your interested in relocating abroad then why not check out this site where you can read interviews with people who have already done it. I think this site is very useful for finding out things that you might not even consider as being relevant or would never think of until after you were already living there.

To be honest the main reason I am plugging this site is because I am one of the people that has been interviewed and I want you to read it.

http://www.expatinterviews.com/poland/john-connolly.html

If I inspire you to relocate in Poland or help you in any way in your relocation, I would love to know about it.

My favourite Polish dinner

My all time favourite Bigos, Bigos Bigos. This meal is the national dish, basically bacon and cabbage (but much better than the Irish version). It has such a unique taste and tastes better the longer it is reheated and the longer it is left. I can't recommend this enough and I have written down the recipe that my adopted bapcia (grandmother) Ania uses to make the Bigos I eat. This site also has all the recipes and information about Polish food that I pick up while I am here. Have a look and try some of the recipes yourself. I learnt much of this by watching babcja Ania with a limited ability to communicate and I have consequently cooked some of these recipes for my family and friends in London. Of course they loved this food.

The link is:

http://www.polishfoodrecipes.blogspot.com/

An englishman in......

I was browsing the Google search engine to see if I rate highly on the SEO and I found some interesting and related blogs (I'm not high by the way...yet!). I think the song about an Englishman in New York by Sting has influenced many Brits subconsciously because there are a multitude of blogs with this title. For me it was a natural title which did not require any thought and I expect for the others also but I think we should all link up to start a travel series that will overtake the lonely planet guides! If any of you 'An Englishman in.......' are reading this contact me and tell me what you think.



Here are links to some of those sights.

http://anenglishmaninosaka.blogspot.com/

http://an-englishman-in-dubai.blogspot.com/

http://englishalien.blogspot.com/

http://anenglishmaninnyugun.blogspot.com/

http://www.anenglishmaninamerica.co.uk/

http://an-englishman-in-japan.blogspot.com/

http://anenglishmaninverona.blogspot.com/

http://www.anenglishmaninneworleans.blogspot.com/

http://englishmaninjoburg.blogspot.com/

http://www.englishmaninstrasbourg.com/

http://www.englishmaninla.com/

http://englishmaninmumbai.blogspot.com/

http://an-englishman-in-paris.blogspot.com/

http://blog.pauldwade.com/ (Sydney)

http://rowmarcus.wordpress.com/ (New Zealand)

http://thechillcoat.blogspot.com/ (A few different places)

There are more but I think you get the picture. I imagine a scenario like that in Bourne Identity films where we have an official 'Englishman' for every country! But instead of being assassinating people for the Americans we just tell everyone where the great places to get pissed are around the world.

Everything in Poland is not cheaper

It came as a surprise that electrical goods and branded trainers here are much more expensive than in England. Since food, cigs and booze are much cheaper, I extrapolated this to all goods. Economics and all that jazz is not my strong point so I was confused because the country on a whole is poorer but I think it is something to do with little competition here and they stay in business due to the small, rich section of society buying their products. Basically anything imported is really expensive. People here go to Germany for their consumer goods. Before I realised this, I had bought a laptop in Poland thinking it has to be cheaper than in London. I did not 'feel' the actual price as it was in zloty and I did not think of converting at the time.
Now I shop online and the best and easiest site I have found so far is an American shop caparison site which lists many different prices from an array of different shops for electrical items to jewellery and garden items. I am interested in buying a good DSLR camera and on this site I got 26 different prices for one particular camera with a difference in price of 100%! The site is called compare4 us and it is very quick. I think much faster than driving to Germany and back and cheaper due to petrol costs. It would be even better if it was in different languages but I expect this to be implemented shortly as it is a new site.

New translation service available

A new human translation service has been set up in association with partners here in Poland which is FREE to use. Any word length is acceptable upto a reasonable amount.
Either the translations will be posted as replies (if they are small), or larger amounts will be posted back to your eMail as soon as possible. Do not forget to leave your eMail address!

The link
http://translationpoleng.blogspot.com/