Rico

Party (and believe me, we are going to ) of 5 heading out 2 weeks tomorrow to Poland. Staying a couple of nights in Warsaw then heading down to our base camp in Krakow where we are staying for 5 nights. As for the GP, I hope Gollob puts in a good performance - he doesn't seem as well liked down there as he is in his home town. The crowd were not happy with his performance last year. Hopefully the track will be better than last year. It will have had another 8 months to bed in so hopefully it won't rut up in the same way it did. Prediction - Crump, Gollob, Rickardsson, Richardson and 7 x 5 hangovers. Rico

Or better still Rico will come to you 8) Bydgoszcz - aaah speedway heaven ! :twisted: We fly into Warsaw (worth a couple of days sightseeing for sure) either on Lot or BA, depends who is cheapest at the time. Train from Warsaw Central to Bydgoszcz takes around 4 hours (http://www.polrail.com/pkprozklad.html for timetables.) As for accomodation, we are booked into the Pod Orlem (http://www.hotelewpolsce.com.pl/podorlem.htm), a beautiful hotel, which is around £50 per room per night including breakfast. Other options are City Hotel (http://www.polhotels.com/Bydgoszcz/City/index2.htm) which is more modern and slightly closer to the track. Again this is around the £50 per room mark - this one does have the added advantage of being above the club where all the riders etc go after the meeting (I include our party in the etc ) In the past I have stayed at the Ratuszowy (http://www.polhotels.com/Bydgoszcz/Ratuszowy/) which is a bit cheaper and far more basic than the others I have mentioned, but we had no complaints - depends on your taste. There are plenty of other hotels, just give the web a search and you should come up with something to suit. You'll probably find some of the hotels fully booked for the GP, but rooms in the good hotels usually come available late on. As someone else has mentioned there is usually an Extraleague match on reasonably locally on the Sunday - Torun is apparently a beautiful town and well worth going to early (unless like last year when it was rained off - we asked the taxi driver to take us back into town, but he dropped us back off at the train station, so we headed straight back to Bydgoszcz.) Have also been to Pila which is about the same distance as Torun. If you need anything specifically give me a shout. The Rough Guide or similar also comes in handy when over there. Poland is a good place to go - I guess that's why I keep going back. Roll on Katowice ! Rico :roll: