Hope your family enjoys their time in Poland. Each one of your videos transports me to the beautiful homeland of my parents and grandparents. Thank you for being my travel guide!!
Some of my favorite places in Poland are: - Wieliczka Salt Mine - Wawel Castle in Krakow - Castle in Malbork - Torun - Moszna Castle - Czocha Castle There is A LOT of castles in Poland ;)
I stopped by your school when I visited Częstochowa with a friend who I was studying abroad with in Kraków. Unfortunately I didn’t get to meet you but your videos are what inspired me to go and visit my ancestral homeland. I loved Poland so much that I decided to transfer to the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and finish my degree in Poland. I will be moving back to Kraków in a few months and I can’t wait to return to this amazing country.
Beautifly done! It feels almost like my geography lessons in a nutshell ;) Hope your family will be pleased with all the attractions and activities you have planned for them.
My wife and me are just finishing our 2nd visit to Poland & your videos have been gold for planning plus learning anput poland overall. Love your vids! Already prepping for next year :)
Poland is like a menu in relatively cheap but good restaurant. It’s not Michelin Stars quality, cause there are places in the world where you can find higher mountains, warmer seas, bigger lakes and so on. But there’s plenty of food to choose from this menu. So you wouldn’t be bored.
rather not a compliment; for someone who has no ancestry there it may be just an average country, but for us who were born there and had to emigrate it's the place we want to return and die someday
11. Polish lakes, especially Mazury region... Greetings to you Russel from Kazimierz Dolny (I am on vacations here and I am glad you have recommended this city 😊 )
Bigos? You say a few hours to prepare? You have not tried proper bigos, yet! It takes weeks to prepare, not hours. It takes cooking it for a few hours every day for at least two weeks.
You forgot about Pieniny. Tiny but beautiful mountains. Insanely beautiful in autumn. The poet Władysław Anczyc wrote: _If someone has never been to the Tatra Mountains and Pieniny, he has been nowhere and seen nothing"_ .
If you speak about food it is worth to mention that in big cities and not only there vegeterians have tons of options and special places too. As a polish vegetarian myself 25 years already I recommend. Poland too. I write becasue there is a lot of vege people and it is important to tell them abput food too 😊
Your videos are amazing. They take me back to a time I visited Poland and the food my mother (second generation) used to make. And the stories my father used to tell when he was in the Polish underground. My second son is named after him. Zygmunt. Shortened to Zygi like my father did. Polish kings. You make me proud to be Polish and remember all my loved ones. Thank you.
When i'm giving a tour of Warszawa to my friends from abroad I always, after showing them standard destinations, take them to metro station Centrum and after 15 minutes when they go out at metro Wawrzyszew, next to Lindego forest their jaws drop only to be even more shocked when after 15 minutes hike, we enter Nature 2000 preserve of Bielański Forest. They can't believe that 15 minutes ride from the middle of a capital city you end up in wild forest with deers, boars, foxes, with nothing but a song of the birds and wind in the trees. :D It gets EVEN better after we walk down to the Wisła and walk down the stream as they see people fishing, making campfires, playing guitars on a wild, secluded beaches, only to get mind blown when we hop on a ferry and end up on an opposite bank at Tarchomin and walk upstream on a cliffs through widing path in yet another forest and end up next to busy tram stop and after short ride end up at Plac Wilsona in the busiest place of Żoliborz district. Looks of astonishment on their faces is priceless xD
Whoa didn't know about Polish Guest culture. "Gość W Dom, Bóg W Dom" is like saying "Athithi Devo Bhava" in our Sanskrit language, which means Guest is like God. Amazing!
Finally, someone wise noticed, among the large cities worth visiting in Poland, the beauty and value of a small city on the Vistula River - Chełmno! Brick Gothic, almost complete, original defensive walls, Renaissance town hall and a fantastic location on the Vistula escarpment. Thank you!
Great job of presenting the best of Poland. I would add the historical aspects of Poland, especially the WW2 memorials, museums and places of human tragedies. Have a fabulous time with your family! I am sure they will be so delighted, pleased and impressed with this great, wonderful and diverse country!!!
I love your videos. My family and I are travelling from Australia to Poland in December to see family and tour around the country. Can you please make a video about local car hire and public transport options. Thanks for your informative videos.
Warsaw was voted #1 best European travel destination in 2023, beating Athens at #2 with 50000 votes (the most in history yet). The most votes for Warsaw was cast by tourists from USA, UK, Ireland, Australia and Austria! Kraków was voted #1 best city break in UK three years in a row, beating such rivals as Berlin, Rome, Paris and Barcelona
The best thing is that they probably won't see it coming. People in the west still have this idea that Poland is still stuck in the 70's behind the iron curtain. This usually increases the shocker they get when seeing all the beauty poland has to offer. PS. on your list, i'd add the wealth of castles and palaces. There's SO much of them all over the place! Hope your family has a blast. And since it'll be 10 years ago since i moved to Poland soon, maybe it's time to get some family over from the Netherlands here and do a similar trip :)
9-cio osobowa grupa + Ty i Twoja rodzina, to sie robi trudny problem logistyczny, chociazby z noclegami dla tak licznej grupy. Przemieszczanie się pomiędzy miejscami w Polsce też pochłonie trochę czasu i będzie męczące dla niektorych, niezależnie od wybranego środka transportu. Idealne byłoby wynajęcie jakiegoś minibusa, ale przy kilkunastu osobach, to już wg prawa będzie autobus i potrzebne prawo jazdy kategorii "E". Poza tym ciężko będzie zadowolić wszystkich - w jednych punktach programu połowa będzie zainteresowana, a druga połowa będzie ziewać z nudów. Ciekaw jestem jak sobie z tym wszystkim poradzicie i mam nadzieję na relację.
Why would you recommend the least interesting place in Gdynia and not mention the most popular and beautiful one? 😭 There's nothing to see in the Kościuszko square, just go to Orłowo, see the cliff, you can even walk on the cliff from Orłowo to the centre.
Looking for next videos Russel with your family from US, maybe see some comments from them about PL. Also I think it is good to tell foreign audience why its good to invest here, like buying apartments or open business etc. Good to se you again :) regards from Gdynia!
@@LoveMyPoland No, not really-sadly, too late. Have you not gone out into the countryside around Czestochowa and seen the new houses and the price tags they now achieve? When I came to Czestochowa and came to Base School of English, I was staying with my wife's sister out on bus route 25. I went for a walk as far as a road called Jemiodowo, I do not know where they get the cash from but the days of cheap communist Poland are long since gone. It is probably a mixture of E.U. funding as well as working overseas and then sending the money back to Poland to invest. Whatever, the days of the Syrenka and Polonez motor car are well behind us now as well as cheap land and housing. Danieljurkiewicz talks about ''good to invest here'' but when it was good to invest in Poland, sadly only Polish people had the right to buy in Poland, now, everybody can but do they still have adequate funds or deep enough pockets?!
Russell, As always, great job. Dziękuję na plus mōj drůgi miasta (Wrocław/Breslau), i tyż bardzo lubiōm Turoń. Ti jes prawdziwy gorol. Keep up the good work!
Funny thing really as I have just flown back from Poland this very morning. I stayed for the best part of a week in Krakow and then took the train to Czestochowa Stradom. As I walked around the very hot streets, and believe me, there has been a real heatwave in Poland these last few weeks, I even found the school Base but the doors were usually locked except for the last time on Tuesday late afternoon when somebody, definitely Polish but with a a strong but funny American accent, was having a telephone conversation with somebody about fat young people and how to lose weight-I decided not to intrude. I liked Czestochowa, in fact, in some ways, it is more natural and less tourist focused than Krakow and I spent a happy two hours or so around Jasna Gora. I can recommend a nice little cafe there at the foot of Jasna Gora that prepares a very nice zapiekanka for 14 zloties-well worth the stop-off. It might be worth mentioning that the school Base is almost adjacent to the museum where my wife worked for some time many years ago. Visiting Czestochowa should become even easier soon as a train is being built between the airport at Katowice and it should connect with Czestochowa itself, at the moment, it is still a seventy kilometer drive.
@@LoveMyPoland There will be other times, I'm sure. If I came to the right place, there was a driving school below you and a real estate office to the right of you. The man in the estate agent's office was nice. I went there as the school showed classrooms 1,2 and 3 on one level and class 4 below but the man knew nothing of classroom number 4 one floor below. Sometimes knowing Polish has its small advantages.
About our Baltic sea... There are many spots on this sea, that water temperature are much higher then in others area. You can check this on 'water temperature' data and go to place, if you wanna go into sea.. swim, etc., where this temp. is higher. For example.. in same day in some places, water temp. will be around 15-17 Celsius degree, but in other this same sea can have around 21-22 Celsius degree. This few degree can make BIG difference for you. 😀 If you have good spot, you can spend almost whole day in sea. And have great fun from waves and from that, that you can go far away from cost line on food. 😀 Because Baltic sea is v. shallow sea. And often you can go around 500 meters from cost line into sea, just walking. 😀 And water in sea is great, because have less salt than 'normal'. And sand beaches... ARE THE BEST!! 😀
Greetings from Connecticut and Zywiec! My wife of 19 years and I are also a "mixed international couple", though she opted to move to the US, where we raise our 13 year old daughter and 10 year old son. We travel to Poland every year to see her family. I'm so glad we found your channel this week. We've loved watching your videos and comparing notes, especially for me, who had previously never traveled outside the US before meeting Magdalena. Kocham Polske!
*Hey 👋 I’m new here and just wanna say, I like your videos. I was thinking of visiting Poland 🇵🇱 in Summer 2024, bc I made some friends there and i wanna visit them for the first time. I haven’t been in Poland before, so it will be interesting and little hard at the start. I’m from Norway 🇳🇴 and I just love everything about Poland now and can’t wait till I visit my friends in Poland for the first time.*
My main tip is to see as much as you can see, taste as many dishes as you can and learn about Polish culture and history beforehand. Also please pick up some basic phrases. Poles love it when you try to speak at least a little 💪
Great video. I can't imagine having a better guide around Poland. I hope they have a great time. If you want a guide for Jasna Gora, I'm your man. Cheers
That was amazing! If you continue this subject, try to mention Polish soups and cakes, all the wild mushrooms dishes, meat dishes such as kotlety mielone or duck in apples. What about potato pancakes? And the landscapes such as Mazury lakes, Błędowska desert, Łeba dunes, Baltic cliffs and lighthouses. And one thing more: Polish hospitality. People are great with foreigners, especially from the US and other "rich" countries they admire and envy. But are hostile and mean for each other, among the Poles. And if a Pole emigrates or simply travels abroad, another Pole is his greatest enemy which is sad😢 Great videos, I'll be watching 😊
Seeing the beautiful trees of the Masowieckie and Podlaskie regions are my favorite. I had a chance to golf in Warsaw last year. One of the most beautiful places in the world that I’ve played in.
What a fantastic video 😃You are a great ambassador of Poland and your enthusiasm for our country is amazing. I wish everyone would look at Poland through your eyes....
Dude! You are soooo cute in promoting Poland. I'm Polish, (and American), and I don't think I could do any better in promoting Poland! And I love Poland! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the work that you do! Thank you! You are a gem!
russ happy to see you are around btw if you get your family here to poland and drag them to warsaw i want you to try a little known treat Rurki z bitą śmietaną only place i know of that exists and makes these and they had been mking those since before i was born late 1960 and tey had been at that location for ovver 60 yearsand they are a well hidden secret of sweet treats..their location is wola section of warsaw puszczy solskiej 12 warszawa i had not had their stuff since 1984 and i still can taste the goodness ohh ice cream is there too but YOU MUST TRY RURKI that is their secret and no one had been able to copy it i traveled all over poland and they still stick with me decdes down the road
Hi! When I lived in Poland I was curious to why some of the road signs had two route descriptions. My Polish friends told me it was because the area had their 'own' language. I believe it is a language called 'Kashubian' (correct me if I'm wrong... I had to look it up! Sorry...). I thought it was both fascinating and brilliant that Poland would go to such lengths to retain the language. They also told me about the mountain ranges to the south of the country and one day I hope to get there and appreciate them for myself. Great channel by the way and appreciate you passing on your knowledge.
One interesting thing about Poland is that it's probably the most rural country in Europe, maybe after Ukraine, meaning that it has the highest rural population ratio at 40%. That makes it quite interesting to me, as every other country in europe has a much lower rural population.
You must avoid Zakopane at all cost... It is tourist trap, high prices compared to rest of country and górale from Zakopane deserve lesson to not be so greedy.
Ślesin, Pątnów, Adamów, you can also rent a motorboat and eat fish straight from the lake, lots of attractions for children and a motorboat with a parachute on a rope
Great to see your new video. I hope your family will have a wonderful time here. (I would like to hear your opinion about medical care in Poland as the reason. Not so bad i persume :D )
Great video :) I just had my first encounter with the official poland for fixing the documents for my wedding... :P As i said to my coming wife... It took longer time to get the paper validated by the officer in the cityhall then the entire cermony of my first marriage... But else i can only agree with you Poland is amazing. :)
I am from Poznań, please consider carefully visiting my city. It is in total construction mess especially Old Town. Nothing toshow your family, really. Check on internet how Poznan looks now.
I moust of year live in białowieża becouse I'm going to highschool there and I must say that białowieża forest is stunning sometimes and if you want tu rent a tour in białowieża I recomend Sławomir Przygodzki he know forrest and english wery (he is my teacher there) well ass well he love USA so you have something to talk about
You are an incredible ambassador of my home country.. and your knowledge of the culture, history and your impressive understanding of Polish life is quite remarkable. Na Zdrowie 🍺
Russell, we are in Częstochowa and my wife could use an English lesson! We absolutely love watching your videos together. Keep up the great work, Poland need you.
I know it's a dark subject, but you should have included the Auschwitz and Majdanek memorial museums. Sure, it is not fun at all but they are both moving experiences, and after the former is right between Zakopane and Krakow after all - If I recall well, the trip by bus from Krakow is no more than 45 minutes. And the town of Oswiecim is very nice, a welcome relief after visiting the former camp (weirdly enough, there is a bar blocks away from it) . Ah, on a brighter note, if you have time with your family, head over to Chelm (an hour or so from Lublin) and check out the Chalk mines. They are unique in the entire world - tunnels and tunnels of chalk mines carved right under the town of Chelm. You might even catch a glimpse of Du Bieluch, the mine's elusive ghost.
