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    We are doing torun the hard way. Me in a van and the mrs in the car drive down to luton where we are leaving the car then on to do a delivery in kent in the van then onto torun via ferry ,france etc, after the meeting getting a lift to leszno where we will stay on sunday before getting a flight back to luton on monday morning and driving car back from luton. Road trip

    Went to Bydgoszcz GP by train from UK in 2009, took about 24 hours door to door!! However this Friday flying STN-WMI, Train to Torun Sat AM, Train to Poznan Sun PM, And fly POZ-STN on Monday afternoon.

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    I've been to a few foreign GPs in the last 7 years or so. Some are easy to do, some need a bit more planning.

     

    Prague I have done a couple of times, easy access as it has it's own airport, food and drink are very cheap, hotels are plentiful, trams run from the city centre to within 5 minutes walk of the stadium. They also serve beer in the stadium that you can take to your seat unlike the Polish venues, I think a round of beers for 9 of us in the stadium was about £12!!

     

    Bydgoszcz has an airport, but flights tend to sell out or become expensive when the GP is in town, also hotels are limited so need to be booked well in advance. The city is not very touristy, but has a few interesting things to see. Food and drink are again very cheap. An option here would be to take a flight to Poznan (very nice city) and then the train up to Bydgoszcz (2 hours). The track is a bit basic but normally produces good racing.

     

    Torun I have been to the last 2 years, and going again this year, October can get chilly in Poland which may put some off. There is also no airport here so you would have to fly to another city and take the train or similar. Poznan, Bydgoszcz or Warsaw are reasonable options for this. The old town is very nice but largely undiscovered by foreign tourists so food and drink prices are low. Accommodation sells out on GP weekend so best to book well in advance. The stadium is purpose built for speedway and only a few years old, the track is always well prepared and produces good racing. A taxi from the city centre costs around £4-£5.

     

    Gorzow is a bit harder to get to as train connections are a bit more limited, for example from Poznan it usually involves a change of train. Flying to eastern Germany and connecting from there may be an option but I have not ever looked in to this. In my opinion the city is not as nice as Torun and there don't seem to be many hotels in the city itself. However the stadium is only a few years old and the track produces good racing.

     

    Tampere has its own airport, you could also fly to Helsinki and take the train (2 hours). Plenty of hotels here but everything is more expensive as it is Scandinavia. The pub right outside the railway station does beer for under €4 but most places seemed to be around the €6-€7 range. As has been well documented on this forum, the racing this year was poor, but the stadium is within walking distance of city centre hotels. The city itself is situated between 2 lakes and is a pleasant place to spend a day or 2.

     

    I've just scrolled up and realised how much I have typed, hope this is of help to people thinking of travelling to a foreign GP. If anybody has any questions just ask, and I will do my best to help.

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    Can anyone give me some pointers on the best/cheapest way to get from Helsinki airport to Tampere ......A group of us arrive in Helsinki at 16:30 on the Friday and at the moment have no idea of the best way to get up to Tampere (also by the time we get there many of us wont be in a position to speak English let alone Finnish !!).Many thanks,George. :drink:

    Try www.vr.fi/en for the trains, seems a reasonable price if booked in advance.

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    Just booked 4!! Yes I know around £50 each for a polish GP but we've got cracking seats top tier, front row, first bend. From what I can remember seats on first bend at Bydgoszcz were not all that much cheaper than this. I know it's still a few months away but really looking forward to this one.

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    Which countries/cities/venues would you most like to see a GP held in?? Forget internal 'speedway politics' and 'it'll never happen because...', it's just a wish list. My top Euro wishes would be Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland and L'viv, Ukraine. Outside Europe would like to see Oz, NZ and maybe even USA.

     

    Have Fun!!

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    Planning to go there, no rooms anyway in Gorzow

     

    There are still a couple of hotels available on www.staypoland.com, I've used this site for Bydgoszcz and although our selected hotel was full they recommended a nice little hotel that we used again the following year (Freddie Lindgren stayed there the first time we went).

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