Peter pill Travelers Mark here with [walter] [sterling] today. We're the main square here in Krakow Poland beautiful cities
Definitely worth checking out and today
We have for you are the [10] things that
Shocked tourists when they come here to poland and the first thing that shocked people when they come to poland is
The Polish Faith the Polish look when you come here, you'll notice that people walk around
Like this just there's no motion. It's not happy it's not [sad]. It's just neutral
It's funny because you [see] it anywhere looking the train station you going out to eat you're going to the stores
You're going all over the place. They just have the same look
Okay, it's like wait a minute kitchen
Be happy or sad [or] something up they have it's like dead on look which works really well because you'll see the women here are
Gorgeous okay, and when you see them longer. Oh, they're just preparing for their supermodel career because when you're on the Catwalk
You don't show any emotion so they actually works really well, but it is kind of funny
How the people you know you do have this?
Look, and that's the first thing
I shock people
also kind of going along with the people you might be shocked at look the [polls] are not like the jokes you heard as a
Kid they're not done. They're not alcoholic stuff like that. You don't have that. I mean. Yes there are but that's everywhere
It's not more or less than you get another country so that also kind of [shocked] the people they come here cuz I'm you saw
Those Polish jokes where what is it for Polish people, and how do they don't move the bed or something?
You don't have that here the second thing that will shock you when you come here also deals with the polish people are
how catholic and how religious the people are I mean I remember going on the buses and
Lovely and he's like punk rock guys are on the in there and and they go by a church and they all do the sign
Of the cross I'm like whoa. [I] didn't expect that people here in poland are very religious and the churches this is st.
Mary honestly the first time I walked in there 20 years ago
I would just draw drop [wow] the booths are all blue altar the blue steel and everything
It's just amazing and the churches around the country are gorgeous, and they're actually building more churches here. You know other countries
They're turning churches into apartments and hotels in bars here people still go to church
They still do believe and you do have a very religious conservative feel when the people are here
Which is kind of a different thing [and] you go and when you go in the churches?
That's the real thing [about] it
You really see the beauty of the churches the ones that have them been destroyed during the war that
Maybe they've been rebuilt but like here and other ones you really go and just see the majestic beauty of the churches here
So do take the chance to go into the churches don't just go oh, it's another church
Go in and check it out that kind of leads into the third thing [that'll] shock you when you come to poland
It's how much poland was destroyed during the second world war
I mean, Krakow was lucky didn't really get destroyed during the war
But a lot [of] the other cities were just leveled for example Warsaw when you go there
You'll go see the uprising [museum] and realize that everything old and Cracow is actually younger than top of your dad
Because they had to rebuild it all after the war because [it] got leveled by the nazis and you'll see that and you go around
That's why you'll see the [communist] architecture and the big square long
rectangle buildings and stuff like that
Because there was nothing there
It was all destroyed so they had to rebuild and when you really see the level of destruction
Throughout the country and how much they've come back and built new stuff
You'll be very proud [of] the people and that's what's really cool about it now the fourth thing [is] Gonna Shock you [anna] come to
Poland is how completely incomprehensible and illegible the polish language is look if you don't speak Polish
[it's] okay the locals know you don't speak polish [also] try to think polish with you, but oh
Just to one of those languages you're listing at the train station. You're like. Yeah, I got nothing yeah, I don't know it's City
I'm going to it is [a] very tough language
It's very hard to pronounce like how do you say?
Prz in a row and there's like a hat and there's an L with a line through it
Is that a zero well?
What is that you do get pretty confused when you are here?
And it is kind of shocking that you can't even make out some of the stuff now
We are developing better for tourism so you will have a lot of you know English menus and stuff like that
But it is a really good idea to know some polish before you come like [Julia]. Which is like
Thank you for the steam is please things like that because it really get those people to go from
You say not pure protein oh
Yes, they polish, and they really open up then okay
The first thing [that] might shock you is your eating experience here the [poles] really love their potatoes
And their cabbage and even if it's not on the menu like it might tell it to cutlet [night]
It'll come with
Cabbage and potatoes here I go [ah] I'll have [the] port of the pork knuckle and said oh it comes of pork and calves what?
I'll just have the rolls oh
cabbage roll, okay
Look, you're going to have a lot of cabbage. You're Gonna
Have a lot [of] potatoes when you are here and there are some pretty good foods like the pierogi
You're going to have that when you're here
I might actually like the meat when I was here too in the potatoes good show the potatoes
[but] [it's] all the time with the perfect cabbage of the potatoes again and again and again. That's why yesterday
I just got the cabbage rolls
I'm like look because that I know I'm getting the cabbage
Haha, but it came with a side of mashed potatoes
And I just liked it laughs okay also kind of interesting is they really love their tea here, too
Now the sixth thing that might shock you as a tourist is
You notice there's not very many tourists now in Cracow you do get about ten million tourists a year
I mean, this is a very popular place because it's gorgeous, and I'll talk about that towards the end
But honestly there's not a lot of tourists actually come to poland and so when you go around you really are kind of a special
Tourist because you are actually here you might get people going
Why are you luling and wiring? Whoosh? Why are you here? You know [some] places like cracow it's obvious
You know we go around and there's just so few tourists out there that you're like
Hey I can kick back relax
And do [ok] and what kind of [leave] thought of that is our next shock is how
Cheap it is here because there's not a lot [of] [tours] driving up the prices
It's nice because you can have a very affordable vacation here in poland rooms
Accommodation food drink making merry all kinds of stuff
And you'll see a lot of people come to like krakauer
Warsaw to go have a party weekend and stuff like that because you really can your money goes a lot farther here than other places
And that's what's really cool now the next thing. It's going to shock when you are here is the amount of natural beauty and space
In poland look it's the huge countries are the biggest countries in Europe and the thing is you're going to be going between these different
Towns, [but] it was on a bus or a train things like that not super fast razor fast enough trains
And you're going to run and it's just
Amazing how big the [crush] [me] is but also the natural beauty you see when you go through there
And what's nice is when you go through and you can go if you're in the [north] you're going to get on okay?
Well, that's one right there drock alan and ganache on my [food] favorites [yup] [and] ganache
You come down a bit you go over the [missourian] legs and see the castle. That's right by there the [montmartre] castle
which is on the way towards there go to the lakes and enjoy that go to the coast in [the] north in this south you've
Got the Tatras [mountains] and you go to Zakopane and stay there tons of Europeans
Go there to Ski in the winter because yes, it's beautiful
And it's cheap remember I said before but you have this [natural] beauty like wow this really is I
Understand why they have all their tourism?
Propaganda is about you know the natural beauty of poland because it really is beautiful
having said that the next thing else shock you is how
Amazing the town squares are here in poland yes here in Cracow
You've got the the cloth hall over here the checkout. You've got the st.. Mary's church over there
You've got all these [things]
inside you've got all these things to go and see and this is actually the largest town square and the European in Europe and it's
Amazing, but it's not just here you go to Warsaw the [Fuel/air] Old Town square
They really built from scratch Rock club goes through the [old-time] [Lublin] combat GDansk the portrait of garage man
You just walk around there see the neptune statue you like man. This is so cool. [and] you have all these beautiful
Squares you have all these beautiful
Buildings that have been rebuilt after the war or maybe they're still there from before the war you
Have that beauty that I'm not a lot of people think of because when they think of poland you're thinking of you know
It's just it's farmland and stuff like that and look there is just amazing places here in poland so it's definitely worth checking out
And the ten thing that might shock you we need to come to poland is the lack of service so remember that polish Faith
This is your service
It's not the most attentive. It's not the most friendly you'll get your food. It'll just take some [time]
But just [no] homelessness are the most
Service-oriented economy out there
so you need to have some patience when you are when you are coming here and
Probably, that's the only thing that shocks you kind of in a bad way is really the service here isn't the best
But it's getting better. [I] used [to] come here a lot in the early 2000s for work and compared to you know
2017 versus
2007 Or 2002
And it is it's completely different anyway
I hope that helps [you] know a few things that might shock you before you come to poland it is a great country to visit
Because you're one of the few tourists coming here to see something [real] [emitting] like right now
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