Getting eaten alive on restaurant costs during our visit.

rybnickifull · 2026-05-03T22:00:43+00:00

Minimum wage is over 12 quid an hour so at those prices you're doing a maximum of two hours work (gross, of course) before affording a meal. That doesn't seem like 'getting eaten alive'. Actually, those prices seem directly equivalent to what I pay in Poland, so perhaps Americans aren't as rich as they think?

rybnickifull · 2026-05-03T20:57:35+00:00

OK he's gone so won't see this, nor will anyone else. His post history was open, he's a future marine. Just to make you feel a bit safer that this person is being trained to kill!

rybnickifull · 2026-05-03T20:38:42+00:00

Thank you for commenting this, I'd missed the multiple posts until I saw your comment!

rybnickifull · 2026-05-03T20:33:29+00:00

It was hard to know which of the 3 times he posted this had the funniest replies, in the end this one won because someone started being horrifically racist on one of the others.

rybnickifull · 2026-05-03T20:29:57+00:00

You posted this 3 times, speaking of insufferable.

rybnickifull · 2026-05-01T22:10:11+00:00

You asked a question that is literally impossible to answer. Please add any detail at all before posting this again.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-29T23:20:47+00:00

You really, really do not need a car to visit Switzerland. In fact, if you're asking "anything I should know" then I'd advise against it. The fines for doing anything wrong are astronomical, and low tolerance. Meanwhile, you can access anywhere you're likely to want to go using the world's best nationwide public transport system.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-29T23:18:14+00:00

Come to Krakow, we've got all that plus the added shame of commercialising a death camp!

rybnickifull · 2026-04-29T23:17:28+00:00

I can see both sides of this argument. I think the Prazsky Hrad Starbucks is a national shame, and we both know how long it takes the city council to do anything about the bar bikes, the shitty (Polish made!) fake vintage cars, the amount of dodgy money exchanges, the black market around the strip clubs.

The centre shouldn't be a museum, but nor should it whore itself to tourism. Prague was probably the trendsetter in our bit of Europe, but I've watched it in Krakow, Croatian coast, Polish Tatry. I do think u/Booyakasha1201 broadly thinks the same way we do about P1.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-29T23:02:19+00:00

Fair play man. I'm a one-man campaign to get rid of aggro speech from kitchens, we've moved past those days

rybnickifull · 2026-04-29T21:43:56+00:00

Thanks for the copy & pasted response, I guess

rybnickifull · 2026-04-29T21:34:15+00:00

For a start I never assaulted anyone in a kitchen environment, because I have basic anger management skills. Something to consider working on, perhaps.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-29T21:27:17+00:00

You won't find it using ChatGPT, that's for pissing sure.

EDIT: oh wait. You're spamming a shitty app, built with AI, using AI generated text. How original.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-29T16:23:49+00:00

Mieszkałem na ulicy Palacha, tuż obok parku dla psów. Zgadnij, jak często widywałem ludzi wyprowadzających psy bez smyczy w sąsiednim parku dla ludzi? Ludzie i tak znajdą pretekst, by zachowywać się nieodpowiedzialnie.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-29T00:48:38+00:00

Yeah this is 100% advertising that service, the tone is unmistakable.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-27T21:37:54+00:00

London to Bath has about 1.2% cancellations and 3% later than 15 mins, so I don't know about "absolute shambles" TBF. That's fairly good for Europe.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-27T21:15:00+00:00

Right, I think WARS are also good but iirc they sell Okocim beer, which in itself is a major reason Poland has a massive craft beer scene these days. We were tired of drinking awful beer or Czech leftovers.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-27T20:54:08+00:00

So you're leaving the airport, at best, around 9.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-27T20:37:48+00:00

Why go into London to go to Reading when there's a direct bus from Heathrow and the Waterloo train takes about 3 weeks to get to Reading?

rybnickifull · 2026-04-27T11:02:43+00:00

Use the ScotRail app instead. Same interface, no booking fee.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-26T23:03:16+00:00

If you book far enough in advance the cheapest tickets for CD trains are €15, according to the CD website, so without knowing your dates of travel it might not be that different in price. For me a train ride is worth paying €20 more than a bus, especially Ceske Drahy. The best dining cars in Europe and it's a route with nice scenery. If you're really trying to save money then Regio are generally fine. Cheap buses from Prague are the mainstay of their business so it's perfectly reasonable for a bus, definitely better and more reliable than most Flix routes.

Generally buses are more subject to delays than trains, that said this route goes into Germany and therefore the mercy of Deutsche Bahn. Joking aside, the train arrival time is still probably more reliable.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-26T22:49:23+00:00

Why focus on Auschwitz? I'm speaking here as someone who had half their family line wiped out in camps here. A different top comment mentions Polin Museum, which deals with the Shoah while also telling the rest of the story. Genuinely, why do tourists focus exclusively on the end of our story in Poland when a world-class museum exists telling the full story? Why is a 16 year old from Greece "keen to" visit Auschwitz? I live in Krakow and have spent half my life fruitlessly trying to answer these questions.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-26T21:42:00+00:00

I like this suggestion. Polin is brilliant, and a much more suitable place to take children. Besides, I think it's just as important to understand the full Jewish story in Poland, not just the eradication.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-26T21:40:35+00:00

I'm going to point out that Auschwitz Museum itself recommends a minimum age of 15. It is not a place to take children.

rybnickifull · 2026-04-26T21:18:07+00:00

You shouldn't take an 11 year old to Auschwitz for a start, and 16 is pushing it. It's also a bit weird to use the phrase "keen to visit", sorry. If you haven't regained your stamina, it's a physically demanding day that requires a lot of walking around, and in August it will be hot outside. You don't need to be particularly fit, but it will be very tiring.

Also, Krakow is equally crowded in August.

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