Riding in Poland

[Farjo]

I rode from Lithuania to Prague back in Sept '06. My memory is poor but luckily I kept a journal in which I wrote the roads were "better quality" than in Lithuania, but apparently that's compared to "a combination of stones, gravel, sand and mud" :lol "The scenery was very green. There are many roadside shrines to Mary, all well maintained. Farming is done by old tractor with a bit of manual labour and the odd horse".

Getting into Poland there was a long queue at border control, but a guard walked over to me, checked my passport and waved me past

The speed limits sign that you get just inside each country was "so complicated I couldn't even suss out the columns, let alone read or remember the numbers." I recall that they don't have speed limit signs with numbers but with pictures - presumably each picture corresponds with a speed. A few days into the trip I got pulled for doing 89 kph in a 50 (I had no idea what the limit was). They were going to fine me 300z but I only had 4 so they let me off. "I said I would slow down and was on my way." I recall there were many mobile speed cameras.

Try the pancakes with cream cheese and ice cream - a national dish.

It was a cheap country back then - a hotel room for £25, haircut under £2 (I haven't much hair but still).

There's nothing mentioning bad roads or drivers, but I got lost a lot so perhaps road signs are not so good?

A lot will have changed - they're in the Euro for one thing. Good luck on the trip and let us know how it went :thumbup