rent-a-pal katowice

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ponizej wycinek artykulu z independent wspominajacy katowice. na fali
chwilowej ;-) popularnosci, katowiccy i slascy studenci bierzcie przyklad z
braci czechow! rent-a-pal katowice to sposob na darmowa dobra zabawe w zamian
za oprowadzenie skorych do hulanek i ciekawych swiata rowiesnikow z innych
krajow. chyba jest na slasku pare ciekawych miejsc do pokazania...
gazeto wyborcza, wizzair i inni pomozcie katowickim studentom rozpoczac akcje
rent-a-pal katowice i rent-a-pal silesia!!!

Published : 19 June 2005
Frivolous flying is, like the internet and the mobile phone, a creation of
our time. A decade ago, no one would have dreamt of visiting a little-known
central European city such as Brno or Katowice for the weekend. Yet with
airlines like easyJet, Ryanair and SkyEurope offering flights to places you
didn't know you wanted to go, at fares too good to turn down, millions of us
are exploring Europe.

Indeed, one of the more innovative ideas from the young and energetic people
of the Czech Republic is a rent-a-pal scheme. Anyone without a better plan,
which generally means at least one in three of the new arrivals on Ryanair's
daily flight from Stansted to Brno, will be invited at the airport to join a
local student for an evening in the pub.

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jeszcze troche o szybkorozwijajacej sie modzie na krotkie wypady do
europejskich miast (niekoniecznie tych topowych typu praga czy barcelona) i
szansie dla katowic i slaska...

Travel: Rent a pal for the lone traveller
By Simon Calder
18 June 2005
The girlfriend of Tomas Paneka re-defines the term "long-suffering". When her
phone rings around 6pm, as it does every few days, the caller is likely to be
Tomas cancelling the arrangements they have for the evening. I have never met
the young lady, but I share the guilt for her disrupted social life. This week,
I was the latest "better offer" to divert her partner. Here's how.

Whenever Ryanair starts flying to a new destination, the local authority has
high hopes of a boom in tourism. Each day an average of 150 people arrive.
Typically one-third are on business, and a similar number are locals returning
home.
But that leaves 50 people turning up every day to experience a new destination.
So a tourist office is set up, providing advice, maps and hotel bookings.

The Czech city of Brno is one of the latest recipients of a Ryanair route from
London. Sophisticates will know it as the home of the composer Janacek. (If you
are not a music buff, but watched too much daytime TV a few decades ago, you
will recognise his Sinfonietta as the theme music for the courtroom drama,
Crown Court.)

Brno is burdened by its location - midway between the Czech and Slovak
capitals - and a name that looks like a typing error. But it could soon be
renowned as the top destination for solo travellers, thanks to an innovative
scheme aimed at the stranger in a strange land. You can hire a friend for the
evening. And, more often than not, that part-time pal will be Tomas.

Lonely travellers have been buying company for centuries, of course. With
business travel booming once again, the commercial spectrum from escort
agencies to prostitution appears to be thriving. But Brno's rent-a-pal industry
is an entirely cultural affair.

It works like this. Each day at 5.30pm, the passengers on the Ryanair flight
from Stansted are welcomed by a helpful tourist desk. The staff will save you a
couple of Czech crowns by selling you a bus ticket into town (it costs more if
you pay on board). They also offer a list of trips, covering everything from
walking tours of the city centre to a visit to the battlefield at Austerlitz -
site of the Battle of the Three Emperors in 1805, and source of the name for a
Paris terminus.

If you turn up alone, though, you may be surprised to be casually asked: "What
are you doing tonight?" This is followed by an invitation to sign up for the
tour known as "Beer and Dish". For Kcs390 (under £10), it promises a two-hour
visit to a restaurant in the city, with dinner and two beers, in the convivial
company of a local. By accepting, you outbid Tomas's girlfriend for a couple of
hours of his time.

As the city churches asynchronously chimed eight o'clock, we met at Freedom
Square. Like Prague's Old Town Square, it is ringed by a splendid jumble of
architecture; unlike the Czech capital, it is devoid of voluble, vomiting and
sometimes violent stag and hen parties from Britain. The setting sun dabbed the
pastel-painted buildings with gold, and it seemed faintly improper to head
straight for the pub. So our party of two went for a stroll around the main
attractions.

We wandered from the central park - laid out in the 1950s in the shape of the
Soviet star - to the memorial to Masyryk, the father of Czech independence. All
the time, Tomas spoke in excellent English, but with a lilting Indian accent.
It turned out that he is a medical student, earning some money on the side. He
spent six months at a teaching hospital in Bulgaria, which is apparently the
destination of choice for middle-class Indian parents to send their offspring
to be trained as doctors, and he picked up the accent of his fellow students -
as well as an addiction to curry. Time to eat.

WE DINED at the Good Soldier Schweik. Or, rather, I devoured a plate of the
heavy, tasty stew, while Tomas watched. The cost of a meal plus a couple of
lagers amounts to nearly half the price of the "Beer and Dish" excursion.
Ordering a meal would literally eat into the profits.

To assuage my guilt, I opened a parallel account with the barman to keep Tomas
in beers. The Pilsner Urquell flowed: "This is the mother of all the beer in
the world", he insisted earnestly.

GOP do lamusa...

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jesli katowice przebuduja swoje centrum , uporzadkuja komunikacje w aglomeracji
(bedac stolica regionu powinny byc motorem przemian) i wypromuja slask jako
region maja szanse stac sie przebojem turystycznym. slask posiadajacy setki
cennych obiektow secesyjnych, modernistycznych i przemyslowych projektowanych
przez architektow takich jak mendelsohn oraz idealny dostep do lasow, gor,
pustyni, jezior i wapiennych skalek ma szanse stac sie czesto odwiedzanym i
lubianym miejscem. SILESIA to 'trade mark' znany kazdemu w europie i pod taka
nazwa powinien byc reklamowany. wbrew temu co wypisuja ludzie na forum (taki
hierowski twierdzi np ze mazowsze jast tak samo malo znane w europie jak i
slask) SILESIA i UPPER SILESIA to bardzo dobrze kojarzace sie obcokrajowcom
nazwy i na dodatek sa powszechnie znane! fakt ludzie czesto nie potrafia
dokladnie umiejscowic slaska ale nazwa jest 100procentowo pozytywna i
rozpoznawalna a to wiecej niz polowa sukcesu...
na pierwszym miejscu jesli chodzi o rozpoznawalnosc jest krakow ale slask nie
ustepuje mu nawet o krok...
moze czas odlozyc idiotycznie brzmiacy GOP do lamusa razem ze stalinogrodem i
zaczac myslec o nowej nazwie dla aglomeracji...
moze to lepsze rozwiazanie skoro idea powiekszania wiodacych miast budzi tyle
kontrowersji?
na poczatek SILESIA brzmialoby chyba lepiej niz GOP?
SILESIA i autonomia ida w parze...