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:: I can be very sure of all my opinions, it doesnt change that they might be wrong. Experience of one shouldn't be generalized, even if it is MY experience and even if I am 100percent sure of it :P That is why I am asking. If you have similar opinion as mine, just change text :) [[User:Mirto|Mirto]] 22:32, 30 August 2008 (CEST)
: Czesc Lena. I think that the whole article about Poland is quite in order. On my travels in Poland I frequently see the local people who stand for lifts to the next village for shopping or visiting people for example. I see many people hitching with their thumb. It is important to describe hitchhiking in Poland accurately. Personally I can't fully understand the ways to hitchhike in Poland without knowing about the situation in the past, the Polish society. Hm, yep of course it's well possible to hitch in Poland without a sign. The reason, because drivers as Polish people are more inclined in their way of being to help other travellers, Poles feel more related to others with whom they live, and translated into autostop-habits they are more curious where the other one on the road wants to go to. More than Germans and obviously extremely much more than Dutch. Well, the article about Poland seems to be rather in order. Feel free to change. About leaving a small tip in the car; in that case I'm also very curious to the situation in the past, and if such habit used to exist, when it has faded out. But it's always Polish and other Slavic drivers that make me feel like leaving a little tip just on the seat, also sometimes when I would be staying there with local people. But anyway, doesn't matter ;) --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 11:59, 1 September 2008 (CEST)
==Reorganising==
I started to reorganise Polish pages, as I also noted some mess here.
First of all I edited a bit general info about Poland. I've been hitching through out Poland for more than 15 years and for example never been asked for a tip and I heard of only one story like that. Maybe it was like that in the past in some regions, but I think not anymore. So I changed that info to not make people think they have to prepare some tip.
I'm skeptic about information about languages spoken in Poland. "42% of Poles speak at least one foreign language fluently" sounds incredible for me. But there is source shown, so I'm not sure if it needs to be changed.
I try to rewrite all the city pages using the same pattern: first Hitching Out, then directions written in that manner: e.g. West towards xxx; under direction additional information about road number as for many people it's important, and there will be more and more places connected by old national road and new motorway or expressway. I think it's good to use italics for places names in Polish and bold italics for the most important names as name of the bus/tram stop you should get off. After that Hitching In information when needed. Some cities have bypasses and motorways in their suburbs. You need info of how to get to town from such remote places. After hitching info there may be some info about Public Transport and after that additional information on Eating and Sleeping. This pattern is based on some Western European cities. If you're going to edit Polish city pages check out [[Poznań]] for example to see how it looks.
