New job. New country.

[DiscoPol]

Well guys I have just had the mother of all telephone interviews,

but it looks like its all worked out well.

I got the job

So in the next 4 weeks I will be packing up the 406 with all my worldly goods, well my technology mainly

the rest is off into storage at the folks house for now, and moving out to Poland.

Im starting a new job as a EFL teacher, that's teaching English as a foreign language for those that dont know

So I will be looking to those few members we have out in Poland for advice soon I think,
re all things Pug and where to get the bits I will inevitable need (it is a pug after all ).

So its goodbye rainy Manchester and hello grey Warsaw, but the summers do rock out there at least, I will be keeping up with the club from out there as soon as i have managed to get a decent connection sorted for t'internet.

Cant say Im sorry to be leaving good old blighty, it will always be home but right now we are suffering here more than most places.

I just know im going need you guys and your pi$$ taking even more when Im out there surrounded by the cabbage eating surrender monkeys, as much as i love the poles (I did marry one) you just cant beat a good bit of british mockery

Dan

[Doggy]

Best of luck Dan - I'll bet it'll be a real experience.

Stay in touch, from what I hear you may be needing some suspension bitz a bit more frequently...

[Welly]

Good luck fella and thanks for letting us know, and thanks for being a thoroughly nice chappy on here too

All the best and hope to see you on here again soon.

[lofty]

Good luck fella, hope it goes well for you.

[DaiRees]

Congratulations matey, hope you have every success out there.

[teamster1975]

Congratulations to you Dan!
Wishing you the very best of luck!

[steve_earwig]

Aha - another bluddy ex-pat Enjoy the culture shock Any good with the lingo yet? Just shout, always does the trick

Best of luck with the move!

A mate of mine and his wife did EFL (I thunked it was TEFL?) in Turkey, one to remember - the word "erm" means something very rude in Turkish, so not the thing to stand in front of the class saying if you can't think of anything else. Their high point was having a video player and ONE video (Morons From Outer Space) for something like a year. The home-brew telly was unintelligible of course. Speaking of which, my other half was in Poland a couple of years back now, she says they show UK and Yank tv programs but with someone reading the translated script over the top in a bored voice. How long will you get to keep the UK car going? You can only drive a foreign-registered veahickle over here for something like 3 months, then it's welcome to the real world of car prices How long will it take to get permanent (i.e. not chuck-outable) residence there? So far here it's taken me almost 6 years of this charge, that fee, the other bribe and some major hoop jumping, being married to one just stops them kicking me out, it doesn't help in any other way. I've even had to pass a language test

[Welly]

Wiggy, do you ever miss the UK?

[steve_earwig]

Yes, every time I see a good 406 on here going for peanuts

[DiscoPol]

Well Steve as for the car heres a bit of light reading that kinda covers it http://www.britishinpoland.com/blog/201 ... -rhd-cars/

I am planning on taking it out there in march and running it for about 6 months
(or until i cant stand being on the wrong side of the car to drive)
and then bringing it back and flogging it over here (UK) whilst it still has enough MOT on it to make it sellable.

Also want to do at least 1 more run over to Poland in it once im there as there are things i am leaving in the uk for the first trip but will need/want by summer.

Priced up a few different options for getting things shipped over or hiring a van and doing a van full on a run but the pug and and cheap ferries are by far the cheapest option plus it gives me an excuse to come back over, its a 21 hour drive plus crossings so not too bad if only done a couple of times a year

I need to be back in July anyway as i have tickets for the F1 at Silverstone again (4 year on the trot now ) so will probably use that as the sell date for the 406.

Residency is looking a bit dubious at the moment as I changed my name by deed pole about 10 years ago and as yet the Poles dont recognise that yet, so not sure on the that one, looks like im going to have do the temporary
( tymczasowy zameldowanie) registration every three months till i can get the right forms from the FCO over here

My language is not all it should be, but give me a couple of months of total immersion and i think it will improve dramatically.

As for TV I am looking into a uk proxy server/VPN at the moment so i can still get into all the online tv (BBC iPlayer, 4OD, Catch up TV) as i have always had a PC connected to the TV for movies and stuff it wont feel that much different for me.
Im thinking that i shouldnt really try to cling on to the uk tv too much, but im justifying it by saying it will be great for teaching material and language examples

[steve_earwig]

Hmm, I've not seen anything about not being able to import RHD cars here, just they must be less than 5 years old, which kind of puts an end to the 406

Fortunately I'm nearing the end of the residency stupidity. I wouldn't have bothered but it made stuff like car ownership a nightmare and I ended up having to give my car to the wife and start the no clams from scratch again (600 quid to insure a 406 HDI 3rd party only, are you insane? ), plus all the stupidity of producing new copies of documents they already had every time I have to renew (what do you mean a birth certificate less than a year old? I haven't been un-born you morons!) I had the option to change my surname when I got married, the options were to keep mine, to take hers, or Hers-Mine or Mine-Hers. Her options where the same but we kept our own (she just became Mrs.), imagine the paperwork if we'd have changed!!

First I've heard about using a poxy server or VPN to access UK telly from here Hold on, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2oxQu5asuc 'scuse me, I'm off for some experimenting

Edit: Truck me - it only bleedin' works! Nice one!! First server I came across too, now watching Rab C Nesbitt (not that the wife can understand a word of course )

[DiscoPol]

Ha Ha,

Im glad to have been of service there Wiggy.

Enjoy the iPlayer now wont you.

When we got married my wife changed her surname to mine, and it was a nightmare for her.
She had to have the original wedding certificate translated into Polish at a government approved place,
then down the town hall and line up and wait for about 4 hours, pay equivalent of about two pound and thirty six p,
hand over new photos sign about 15 different forms and bribe 2 old ladies then they took the original certificate for their records (so we lost our original cert) told her to come back six weeks later to collect the new ID card in person, not normally a problem but she was living with me over in the UK by then, so had to fly back just to pick up her new ID card, Im not even going to start on when she wanted to change her driving license

Still looking forward to it, it will be an experience if nothing else

[scottish pug estate]

good luck with the job and the move

[Welly]

Is Faulty Towers on yet wiggy?

[steve_earwig]

Fawlty Towers? ¿Que? Got 'em all on my pc mate

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