Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid
Szymon Sokół
> On Nov 19, 6:04 pm, Michał Dwużnik <"michal[dot]dwuznik[at]cern[dot]
> ch"@think.a.bit.before.replying> wrote:
>> Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>>>>http://www.polishforums.com/life-poland-7/indian-stores-warsaw-19402/
>>>> It is worth mentioning that Michal, like myself, lives in Cracow (the
>>>> second-biggest city in Poland), and I guess by "here" he meant "in the
>>>> town". Or in a 300 km radius, for that matter, because that's the distance
>>>>from Cracow to Warsaw. And going 300 km to buy fresh mangos is not a viable
>>>> option.
>>
>>> I've driven that far to lunch a number of times :-)
>>
>> That's either over 3h by train or over 5h driving.
>> Means being very hungry by reaching the lunch place.
>
> I guess the road must be bad.
You bet. There are no good roads in Poland, at least by American standards.
The only real highway goes from Cracow through Silesia to the German border.
One of the priorities of the present government is building more
superhighways, but the progress is slooow. Of course, our roads are still
better than Russian ones:
http://carfail.com/2009/04/04/four-car-failed-the-ground-in-moscow/
Have a look at Google: http://tinyurl.com/ygvgysf
and see for yourself - they claim the Cracow-Warsaw route takes 4h27m, and
sometimes it is worse; this means average speed of 67 km/h or less.
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Michał Dwużnik
> Have a look at Google: http://tinyurl.com/ygvgysf
> and see for yourself - they claim the Cracow-Warsaw route takes 4h27m, and
> sometimes it is worse; this means average speed of 67 km/h or less.
>
direction, google is really optimistic, not accounting for a few long
lasting works underway.
Michał