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ccoll · Joined: 16 Oct 2014 Posts: 19

Anybody living in Lublin?

ccoll · Joined: 16 Oct 2014 Posts: 19

Does anybody know of any people living in Lublin? I move there soon and having a few contacts there would be handy while I get to know the city and settle in.

simon_porter00 · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 505 Location: Warsaw, Poland

The few years i've been on this board and don't recall anyone in Lublin. There's not much to get used to, small but lovely city, lots of stoodents, a market ripe for picking assuming you don't chase tail and booze yourself silly.

Usual rules apply, work with a school for a year, get to know the ground, go out by yourself. Simples.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I last visited in 1963 ! It struck me as a provincial town with some attractions.

simon_porter00 · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 505 Location: Warsaw, Poland

The airport opened a few years back and it was trying to sell itself to the crowds that usually urinate over krakow and katowice.

Road links to Warsaw still abysmal though - probably better in 1963.

Master Shake · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 1202 Location: Colorado, USA

The large Majdanek concentration camp outside of town is definitely worth seeing.

The centre is pretty, but there are quite a few abandoned buildings, even in the old town.

I'll wager the only expats in Lublin are working in language schools. You might try following them from the schools to whatever pub they frequent after the lessons finish around 9pm.

Coolguy123 · Joined: 10 Apr 2013 Posts: 132

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Majdanek ? Death Camp Tourism.

Master Shake · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 1202 Location: Colorado, USA

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Go and see for yourself. Long way from Japan. People should visit but it can be quite a shock, as can visits to many sites that commemorate the horrors of the 20th Century.

dragonpiwo · Joined: 04 Mar 2013 Posts: 1650 Location: Berlin

Me and the missus went to Oswiecim and Brzezinka in September. There was nothing touristy about that trip. I have an interest in holocaust history. That said,there were many Israelis there and it was very moving to hear them singing and praying next to one of the crematoria at Birkenau. People go there for all sorts of reasons but all leave with the same feeling. I learnt a lot that day and I will never go there again.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

In the 1960s on several trips to Poland as a student I was deeply shocked by the level of anti-Semitism that I witnessed - only 20 0dd years after the end of WW2.

dragonpiwo · Joined: 04 Mar 2013 Posts: 1650 Location: Berlin

They have some ways to go with liberalism. Poland looks western but the mentality certainly ain't.

Master Shake · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 1202 Location: Colorado, USA

dragonpiwo · Joined: 04 Mar 2013 Posts: 1650 Location: Berlin

Yeah, I'd avoid the packages. We just drove there on the way back from a weekend in Krakow. Horrific place.