Mobility! The car is always available and there is no need to wait for the bus or train to arrive, purchase tickets, or link your schedule to the schedule public transport and so on.

The traveler can independently build a route, change it, there is no connection to transfers and other inconveniences.

In general, a trip by car to Poland is 10-15% cheaper than a train or bus. The savings compared to air travel are even more significant.

The main requirement for a car is technical serviceability. Customs officers pay special attention to the operation of headlights(the low beam must be on 24 hours a day!), so it’s better to stock up on extra bulbs.

Problems may arise with an obvious violation of the integrity of the car - there have been cases when travelers were turned away when crossing the Polish border due to impressive cracks in the windshield or damage to the body. You need to take care of correcting these shortcomings before your trip.

At winter travel you should know that studded tires are prohibited in Poland! The use of various “radar detectors” and similar equipment is also not permitted.

In addition to the requirements of Polish and EU laws, there are also common sense arguments: you have to drive more than one thousand kilometers, which means you need to carry out all routine maintenance and full maintenance of your car.

What to prepare for traveling with your own transport?

A standard set consisting of a first aid kit and a fire extinguisher, an emergency sign and a spare wheel. It is very important to check the status of expiration dates! Expired medications or a fire extinguisher will be considered unusable by customs officers and may not allow the vehicle to pass.

There are also requirements that are not so familiar to drivers. Polish regulations prohibit leaving a car in the dark outside city limits without a vest with reflective stripes. Therefore, the presence of such vests will be checked at customs.

There are two important points related to this:

1. The number of vests must be equal to the number of passengers. These accessories should be present for both infants and people with limited mobility.
2. Vests must be placed in the vehicle interior. Having them in the trunk does not count and raises the question: “How are you going to get to the trunk if you can’t leave the car without a vest?”

One more point about winter tires. Spikes are prohibited, but in cases of snowy roads it is allowed to use chains on the car.

Car documents

The entire generally accepted package of documents is, of course, required:

1. Rights. Moreover, if national documents are not recognized abroad, you should take care of obtaining an international certificate. Belarus, Poland, Russia and Ukraine are signatories to the 1968 Vienna Convention on the Recognition of National Rights, so replacement of certificates is not required.
2. Vehicle registration certificate.
3. If management occurs by power of attorney - relevant documents.
4. International standard car insurance.

Documents for passengers

The list of necessities may vary depending on the purpose of travel to Poland, but must always include:

• with a correctly issued and valid this moment visa;
• if you are going to work;
• for each of those entering.

Where can you cross the border with Poland by car?

From the territory of Ukraine you can get to Poland through 5 automobile border crossings(in the pair, the first is in Ukraine, the second is in Poland):

• Yagodin – Dorogusk;
• Smilnitsa – Krostsenko;
• Shegini - Medyka;
• Rava-Russkaya – Grebenna;
• Krakovets – Korcheva;
• Ustilug - Zosin.

Passenger vehicles are allowed into Poland at all crossings; there are restrictions for heavy vehicles: Ustilug allows only cars up to 3.5 tons.

For Belarusians

Vehicles leave Belarus through the following points:

• Domachevo - Slovatichi;
• Berestovitsa - Bobrovniki;
• Kozlovichi - Kukuryki;
• Brest - Terespol;
• Peschatka - Polovtsy;
• Bruzgi - Belostotskaya Forge.

Please note that crossing the Belarusian-Polish border through Kozlovichi is only possible for trucks.

Russian

Russia has a border with Poland only through the exclave of the Kaliningrad region. If travelers live in this region, then it is easy to resolve the issue through automobile points:

• Bagrationovsk - Bezledy;
• Mamonovo - Gronovo (up to 6.5 tons);
• Mamonovo II - Grzechotki;
• Gusev (Ozersk) - Goldap.

From other territories, crossing the Russian-Polish border is possible through Belarus or Ukraine.

So, let's find out how to cross the border.

The border crossing procedure begins with a trivial queue of cars.

You must wait for the customs officer to approach from the departure side.

Issuing a coupon, checking the car and documents

The customs officer will check the number of passengers and will definitely issue a control ticket– a document that will indicate the parameters of the car, people, date and time. You will need the coupon at all stages of crossing the border, so be sure to check that it is filled out correctly.

All marks in the document are entered by customs officers - neither the driver nor the passengers fill out anything in it.

The next stage is Polish customs. In principle, the process is identical (checking the car, documents, making a mark on the ticket), however, control may be more thorough and, therefore, take longer.

Baggage check

It is very important to know what is allowed to be imported into Poland and what is strictly prohibited. Presence of prohibited items(products) may be grounds for an entry ban.

What should you pay attention to?

After passing all the checks, it is imperative to check that the documents, personal data of passengers and the vehicle are filled out correctly.

As practice shows, there are often cases when customs forgets to put entry and exit stamps. This needs to be checked.

Already mentioned, but it’s worth dwelling on this in more detail:

• Vests with reflective elements are required.
• Movement must be accompanied by low beams, but during daylight hours running lights are allowed.
• The use of front fog lights is only permitted in rain or fog.
• Rear fog lights are allowed to be turned on when visibility is up to 50 m (otherwise the fine is PLN 100).
• The speed limit within the city is limited to 50 km/h, but from 11 pm to 05 am the limit increases to 60 km/h.
• Outside residential areas, the permissible speed is most often up to 90 km/h, but there are also roads with restrictions of up to 100-140 km/h.
• Fines for exceeding the speed limit are about PLN 115, for violation of more than 10 km/h. When exceeding 50 km/h. or more faces deprivation of rights for up to 3 months.
• On some highways the speed is limited to two limits. For example, no more than 140 km/h, but not less than 40 km/h.
• PLN 200 you will have to pay for overtaking at a zebra crossing (pedestrian crossing). The same fine is imposed for overtaking on the right, violating the markings (two solid) and obstructing the movement of public transport.
• PLN 300 There is an exit to an intersection where traffic is difficult.
• Wrong parking will cost PLN 400, and taking a space reserved for a disabled person costs PLN 800.
• Not missing a pedestrian costs PLN 350.
• Not wearing a seat belt – PLN 100.
• Talking on the phone without hands free – PLN 200.
• Transporting children is permitted only in a special seat in the back seat - a fine of PLN 150.

There is an opinion that In Poland, small amounts of alcohol are allowed while driving.. Indeed, the permissible norm is 0.2 prom.

However, even a small dose of alcohol can show great results!

Sanctions for violations are serious:

• for the interval 0.21 - 0.5 industrial, a fine of 5,000 zlotys and deprivation of rights for three years;
• for large indicators – 10,000 and imprisonment for the same period.

Toll highways in Poland

High-speed highways are a convenient, but paid opportunity to travel in your own car. Average prices are 20 groschen per 1 km. Payment is collected at the entrance to the highway (paid section) - in cash in zlotys, euros or dollars, as well as by credit cards.

Another way to collect tolls is to pay at the exit from the toll section. In this case, upon entry, the driver is obliged to receive a special receipt, keep it until departure and, based on it, make payment at the end of the route.

Today there are three autobahns:

• A1 Gdansk-Torun (PLN 29.90 for the entire route);
• A2 Vashava-Swiecko (PLN 78.90 for the entire length of the journey);
• A4 Zgorzelec - Krakow (PLN 36.20 for the entire route).

A car trip to Poland is convenient and easy. If you study all the details of crossing the border and the rules of conduct within the country, you will be able to have a good time without being distracted by problems.

We told you about all the nuances of this process. But if any details remain unclear, ask in the comments and leave your feedback.

Evgeniy is originally from Minsk, but now lives permanently in Warsaw. He travels to Minsk once every month and a half, mostly by car, so he has more than enough experience crossing the border. How to save time at the border crossing, how best to apply for Tax Free, where to spend the night if necessary - in his story.

Routes

Between Belarus and Poland there are five border crossings through which you can drive a car (sorted from north to south, according to the map):

• "Bruzgi - Kuznica (Forge)",
• "Berestovitsa - Bobrowniki (Beavers)",
• "Peschatka - Polowce (Polovtse)",
• "Brest - Terespol (Terespol)",
• "Domachevo - Slawatycze (Slavatyche)".

I had to travel through each of the listed border crossings. Below I present to your attention a map showing five route options Minsk - Warsaw, respectively, through each of the crossings.

As can be seen from the map, the shortest and fastest road is through the Bobrovniki checkpoint. The route through Bruzgi is almost the same in time and distance. Next comes the road through the Brest checkpoint, but the path through small crossings like Domachevo and Peschatka promises to be the longest.

My favorite way to travel is through the Bobrovniki checkpoint. The road in Belarus after exiting the M1 highway is narrow and not particularly busy. At the same time, it passes through an area with beautiful terrain and has good coverage. In Poland, the Bialystok - Warsaw road (190 km) is approximately half a four-lane motorway with a speed limit of 120 km/h. The rest is two-lane (90 km/h). But now this road is actively expanding; by the end of 2015, only about 20-30 km of narrow sections (with good coverage) will remain. The Terespol - Warsaw highway (also 190 km) underwent major repairs several years ago, so the surface on this road is excellent. But its main disadvantages are that it is narrow (two-lane), congested and passes through a bunch of settlements with a “50” limit. And precisely in populated areas Quite often there is a police station with a radar. Therefore, this road is not only slow (I usually can’t drive it in less than three hours), but also tiring due to the constant overtaking of trucks and monotonous driving at a speed of 80-90 km/h.

Queues at the border: where do they come from?

When calculating travel time for each route, Google does not take into account the time it takes to cross the border. And this time can range from 30 minutes to several hours, or even more. The longest border crossing I have encountered is almost 10 hours. It was like torture, not only for the driver, who cannot close his eyes due to the need to constantly drive up, but also for the passengers, since they are either hot, or mosquitoes, or need to go to the toilet, or want to eat.

Almost all border crossings are arranged in a similar way, both on the Polish and Belarusian sides. I have depicted a simplified diagram of the border crossing in the figure.

The diagram shows that queues can accumulate in several places: before entering the border crossing area, in the channels ("green" and "red") and on neutral territory.

The neutral territory is the same everywhere - it is a road (or a bridge where the border runs along the river), which has one lane in each direction and, as a rule, a double solid line between the lanes. But its length differs at different crossings, so the longer it is, the more cars can fit there, and the larger the queue can form there.

Where do the queues at the border come from? There are several reasons for this. The most common one is a large simultaneous influx of cars. Border crossings have limited capacity and sometimes cannot cope with the rush. This happens, for example, during the Christmas and New Year holidays, May holidays etc., when many people go to Europe on vacation. Also, in my memory, there were several surges associated with an increase in import customs duties on cars. Then there were huge queues to enter Belarus due to the fact that so many people were importing and clearing cars through customs.

Another reason for long queues may be a change in the legislation of the Republic of Belarus and/or the Customs Union regarding duty-free import by individuals of goods for personal use. This is a well-known pastime of the Belarusian State Customs Committee, which cost many people not only time and money, but also a fair amount of nerves. It’s no secret that many Belarusians go to Poland to shop because it’s cheaper there. Moreover, this applies not only to clothing and electronics, but to almost everything, from construction and finishing materials to food. There is a list of goods that can be imported into the Republic of Belarus without customs clearance, that is, through the “green” channel. This list is available on the State Customs Committee website. But Belarusian legislation is ambiguous in this regard, so different interpretations are widespread. For example, the same product may be classified differently by different customs officials. In addition, there are so-called “internal orders” of customs, which, naturally, are not publicly available. As a result, if I, for example, bought a coffee table from IKEA, which, according to the official classification, is not subject to customs declaration, and I enter the Republic of Belarus with it through the “green” channel, the customs officer may direct me to the “red” channel, explaining that that I need to declare it, even without paying customs duty. In this case, there is usually a reference to “internal orders”.

Why am I describing all this in such detail? The fact is that from the above diagram of the border crossing it is clear that its bottleneck is neutral territory. Since the Belarusian side sends most of the cars to the “red” channel, registration on which takes much longer than on the “green” channel, then, having occupied all the “red” channels with cars, the Belarusians do not launch a new batch from neutral territory until it is freed place in the channels. It does not matter that there may be cars parked on neutral territory heading into the “green” channel, which may be empty at that time. They cannot get into it until they enter the border crossing area from neutral territory on a first-come, first-served basis.

I have fallen into this trap more than once. Having crossed the Polish border at the Brest-Terespol crossing, I stood in line at the settling tank before leaving for neutral territory, which by that time already contained several dozen, or even hundreds of cars. They accumulated there because the neutral territory was also completely occupied by cars (see photo below). And this was caused by the fact that on the Belarusian border all the “red” channels were occupied, new cars were launched into the territory as the channels were cleared.

A queue on the neutral territory of the Brest-Terespol border crossing. View back towards Poland

A queue on the neutral territory of the Brest-Terespol border crossing. View forward towards Belarus

I called it a trap because in such a situation there is no escape. Theoretically, being on neutral territory, you can turn around and enter Poland again to go to another border. But, firstly, there may also be a queue to enter Poland, and secondly, such maneuvers, as a rule, cause a negative reaction among border guards, which can result in additional waiting and showdowns.

How to avoid falling into the trap

What should you do to avoid falling into such a trap and spending half a day in it? Here I will give some tips that I use myself when I travel from Warsaw to Minsk and back.

First, on the way to the border you need to collect information about the queues. There are several sources of such information:

• . It should be noted that you cannot always trust the information on this site. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, the information there is updated infrequently - every few hours, during which the situation can change dramatically. Secondly, this information shows the queue (number of cars) that is already located on the territory of the border crossing, that is, in the channels. It does not take into account those cars that are standing in line before entering the territory or on neutral territory. In this case, you can look at the image from the cameras, available on the same website, but the cameras do not film the neutral territory, but only the entrance to the border crossing territory from the Republic of Belarus;

• website of the Polish Border Committee. It shows the time required to cross the Polish border via the “red” and “green” channels. You can also view images from cameras. In addition, there is an official application for smartphones, which is quite convenient;
• "network of informants". To travel abroad in Belarus in a car with Belarusian registration, you must have a “green card” - car insurance for civil liability, which is valid in the EU. There are several insurance companies in Belarus that provide such insurance. Their prices are the same, their agents are located at all gas stations near the border. There are also green card processing points right at the border. All agents are happy to give you their phone numbers when you buy insurance from them. Therefore, you can call them and find out if there is a queue at the border. This is the most reliable source of information about queues. But for obvious reasons, you can use it only when leaving Belarus.

How I do it: Minsk - Warsaw

When I travel from Minsk to Warsaw, I, of course, use the “network of informants.” I collected phone numbers from insurers at the Bobrovniki, Brest and Domachevo checkpoints, since I mainly use these three crossings. From Minsk to the border I always take the M1 highway in the direction of Brest and, having passed Baranovichi, I call the Bobrovniki checkpoint. If there is no line there, I go there. If there is a queue, I go to Brest. Having reached the Brest-Terespol crossing, I look on the spot to see if there is a queue, and call the Domachevo checkpoint to find out the situation there. As a result, I choose either “Brest” or “Domachevo” (the road to it goes straight from the “Brest - Terespol” border crossing along the border). I do this because if you go to “Bobrovniki” right away and it turns out that there is a queue, then there will be nowhere to go from there, because the closest crossing to “Bobrovniki” is “Bruzgi”, and it’s 70 km and an hour away, so There is no particular point in such a move. But from Brest to Domachevo it is 44 km, and the road is better. In addition, from Brest you can go to the Peschatka checkpoint, which is 55 km away. But this option is a last resort, because from Peschatka across Poland you need to travel a long time to get to the highway along small narrow paths, which makes sense in terms of time only if the queue at the border lasts 5-6 hours.

How I do it: Warsaw - Minsk

Recently I travel from Warsaw to Minsk only through Terespol. I get to the Brest-Terespol crossing and see if there is a queue there. There is a nuance here: there may not be a queue at the entrance to the border crossing area or in the canals, but this does not mean that you will be able to quickly cross the border. This is the same trap that I described above. It may turn out that the movement is slowed down by the Belarusian side, and then you can spend several hours in the settling tank and on neutral territory. Therefore, I clarify the situation with the border guards, and if it turns out that the Belarusians are slow to let cars in, then I go to the Domachevo checkpoint. There are usually no long queues there, but, firstly, the road to the crossing, and then from the crossing to Brest, takes at least an hour, and secondly, Polish border guards and customs officers work noticeably slower there than at large crossings. The undoubted advantage of this crossing is that residents of border areas, who make up a large percentage of those crossing the border, rarely travel through Domachevo. Most of them live in Brest; there is no point for them to make a 90 km detour.

I haven’t traveled through the Bobrovniki checkpoint from Poland for a long time, because at the time when I cross the border (which is usually 21.00-22.00), large queues of residents of border towns accumulate there, for whom this crossing is the main one. And since the crossing is not particularly large, there are much fewer canals there than in Brest.

For travelers: overnight

Above I described how I cross the border and what guides me in doing so. Since I move between Warsaw and Minsk without overnight stays, in one sitting, every 10 minutes of time is important to me and it’s a pity when this time is spent waiting in line.

I understand that my advice may not be suitable for everyone. For example, for those who are going on their summer “Eurotrip”, it is easier and more convenient to do the following: get to Brest in the evening, spend the night there and go to the border early in the morning. As a rule, early in the morning, around 6-7, or maybe even 8, there should be no queues. I myself, however, did not do this. But on the way from Poland to the Republic of Belarus I spent the night before the border a couple of times, so I can recommend a couple of hotels:

Hotel Pod Debami is 5 km from Terespol. After spending the night there, you can be at the border in the morning in 10 minutes;
- Hotel Delfina 67 km from Bobrowniki and 22 km from Bialystok. Closer to the border, you can only spend the night in Bialystok itself, since it is 45 km from the border to the border, the road goes through the Polish part of Belovezhskaya Pushcha, so there are no hotels there.

The last thing I wanted to write about is a small life hack related to Tax Free. Many tourists returning from Europe apply for Tax Free purchases. To receive a VAT refund on Tax Free checks, you must present them and the purchases themselves to customs officers when leaving the EU, so that they make notes about the export of goods. This is done after passing through passport control, so additional time is lost. So, the process of obtaining Tax Free at the border can be significantly accelerated by entering information from checks into the customs system via the Internet in advance. This can be done on the website of the Polish Border Committee. Then, when registering at the border, the customs officer will not need to enter all this information manually; he will only have to check it and stamp your checks.

I hope that the information will be useful for someone. After all, no matter where you go, spending hours in line at the border is not the best way to spend your time.

The advantage of such a trip is savings. A trip to Poland in your own car is an incredibly cheap pleasure. A week's vacation, including gasoline (which is more expensive than ours), toll roads in Belarus and Poland, paid parking, hotels, restaurants and entertainment - will cost 50 euros per person per day. And if you also spend the night in campsites and eat semi-finished products, you can even meet it in 25. Here, there is no limit to perfection!

Not to mention complete freedom to control time and position in space is also a pleasant state, and it’s worth a lot.

However, when embarking on this venture, it is necessary to think through and prepare in advance. We offer you a win-win algorithm of actions that should precede your trip. So that it brings you only pleasant surprises, and does not turn into a continuous “resolution” of various types and degrees of seriousness of problems.

1. Route

First of all, we determine the route. Literally - from the threshold and... wherever the soul calls. Decide, after consulting with friends and acquaintances, surfing the Internet in the evenings, looking through colorful guidebooks and albums... - where you want to visit. This is the first – and most serious – step.

We will tell you that northern Poland is good for beach holiday– mild Baltic coast with moderate temperatures and cool water, picturesque beaches. These are summer routes that run through ancient coastal cities Gdansk, Solot, Slupsk, Gdynia.
And in winter they will beckon you, and the most popular of them is Zakopane.

Poland literally breathes living history, all of it is the embodied chronicle of centuries - from knightly times to the present day. very, very diverse and numerous, because no matter what city you take, there will definitely be a historical monument in it, and more than one. In order to get acquainted with the history and culture of Poland, you should definitely visit Warsaw. Then come Krakow, again Gdansk, located in the heart of the country Lodz, living evidence of the Polish Renaissance Poznan and of course, the ancient capital - Gniezno.

Attention to the most curious and energetic! Don't even try to take in this vast splendor in one trip. Poland is too big to discover in a week's vacation. Decide what you would like to see first. .

To fully get to know the country, it’s still better. To fully explore the country, it is better to buy a sightseeing tour. Then the trip will be structured in an optimal way so that in the minimum time you get the maximum impressions from this trip

2. Book a hotel

Ideally, you need to book hotels in advance in all cities through which the route will pass. This is not easy to do; there are too many factors to consider. If you entrust this part of the preparation to a travel agency, you will gain time and save energy.

In any case, you must book in advance the hotel where you will arrive first when you are in Poland. Because confirmation of your hotel reservation will be required to obtain a visa.

3. Visa application

It is not difficult for Russians to obtain a visa to Poland. To do this, you need to contact the embassy or consulate of the Polish Republic. To avoid standing in lines and wasting time on working days before your vacation, order a visa from a tour operator. It is not much more expensive, and if you are traveling with your whole family or a large group, discounts on this service are possible, and for very little money you will gain time and save energy, which will be useful both for preparation and for the trip.

The best part is that Poland is part of the Schengen zone, which means that having received a visa to Poland, you can proceed to any European Schengen country. Therefore, many experienced motor tourists have chosen Poland as an ideal start for great trip in Europe.

4.Documents required for the trip

So, in addition to the visa, you need:

Green card and medical insurance for the Republic of Belarus (purchased at the Russia-Belarus border). Green card and health insurance for Poland (purchased at the border in Brest).

However, if you are transiting through Poland, medical insurance is not required. If you do not have health insurance, when entering Poland you must have 300 zlotys per person per day (that’s about 75 euros).

If a child is accompanying you, and you are not a parent or the other parent is not with you, then a notarized permission to take the child abroad is required.

Driver license. Not necessarily international. Enough Russian.

Technical passport. Attention! The owner of the car must be present. Even if he's not driving. But management by proxy in the absence of the owner will not work.

Car: no tint, especially on the front doors. Entry on studded tires is prohibited. Don't forget the first aid kit. And be sure to remove radar detectors and other tricks. Polish traffic police will not forgive you for this.

5. What else should I take with me?

Important: restrictions on the import of tobacco products and alcohol. To avoid problems, it is better not to take cigarettes with you in reserve. Gasoline too - only in the gas tank. You cannot import certain types of food - meat, for example. So finish your sandwiches before crossing the border.

Money. If you have health insurance - 100 zlotys per person per day (about 25 euros) - minimum. Take 1,500 euros with you for a week - you will probably have enough for a family or a small company.

Be sure to buy a road map of Europe in Moscow - it is difficult to find in Poland.

6.How to go?

From Moscow it is easier to take the M1 highway all the way to Brest. Border crossing - Brest-Terespol. There are more border guards here, which means the line moves faster. From Moscow to the border the journey takes 11-12 hours. The transition procedure takes from half an hour to four hours, depending on the time of day and day (weekends, holidays, weekdays). It’s best to go at 2-3 am – there are almost no people. South of Brest there is a transition to Domachevo. There are fewer queues there, but there are also few border guards, so the time is longer than in Brest itself.

When asked about the purpose of the trip, you answer – tourism. Present your passport with a visa. Show a printout of the email as confirmation from the hotel.

And now you are in Poland. Be careful on narrow Polish roads, obey traffic rules and use common sense. We hope that these tips will make your journey easier and allow you to devote maximum attention and time to active recreation, vivid impressions and wonderful discoveries. Bon Voyage!

By car to Poland through Belarus.
We left Moscow on our Goetze at 5 am on Thursday. We reached the border with Belarus without any problems and in the evening we were ready to cross the Belarusian-Polish border. We did not feel any border between Russia and Belarus, as such.

About five hundred kilometers from Moscow, Belarus will begin. This is about an 8-hour drive straight ahead along the Minsk Highway and it’s already within easy reach by car, about another 600 km. In total, we got 13 hours and a half. True, we went in the spring. In winter, I think it will take longer because of the road.

You no longer have to pay for transit travel by car in Belarus. By the way, you can also buy insurance there, if someone doesn’t have it, and exchange money.
Then a toll highway begins on the territory of Belarus. It is better to fill up with gasoline until the tank is full at Russian territory. You won’t be able to pay for gasoline at gas stations in Belarus with our Russian rubles; they don’t accept rubles, but you can use a card. But at the same time, you have to pay for everything else in Belarusian rubles.
We continue to move by car to Poland through Belarus. If you decide to take the M1 highway, then at the Radki PVDS (toll collection point) you will need to pay for the toll road. You will know that the toll road will start soon by the blue roadside banners. This is the M1-E30 road from the Russian border to Brest. Payment is made in euros. But you can also pay in Russian rubles. You will have to pay only 4 times according to the amount of PVDS, in the end you will pay only 90 Russian rubles. By the way, this route is quite decent, the asphalt is smooth and the average speed limit on this section is 110 km/h. Keep in mind that there are a lot of radars on this route, so be careful not to break the speed limit.
If you are driving a car to Poland through Belarus from Moscow, then it is better to buy green card insurance in Moscow, from any insurance company, it will be cheaper. However, who cares. You can also buy insurance at the border.

Crossing the Belarusian - Polish border.
You can cross the Belarusian-Polish border quickly, or you can stand there for several hours. Before going to the border barrier, you must first pay a fee of 50 Russian rubles again, and only then can you safely move to the customs zone. First we go through passport control, then customs. While we are standing in line, you can go to the toilet or have a smoke. In advance, while you have time, ask where the “tax free” payment window is located on the way back. It might come in handy on the way back. And also, on the way back, if you want to go to the toilet on Polish territory, keep in mind that it is paid, not like on Belarusian territory.
Next, choose which corridor you need, green or red. Usually all normal tourists head to the green corridor.
Polish customs officers are quite polite, they speak quietly and calmly. Many people are asked to open the trunk. In our presence, only one Belarusian driver was forced to take all the bags out of the trunk. Belarusians often try to smuggle cigarettes into Poland in prohibited quantities. So they are examined with passion. They also check for the presence of meat and dairy products. Those. you should not have any cheese, sausage, cottage cheese, etc. with you. There is a provision according to which the transport of meat and dairy products into the Eurozone is prohibited. I think that now no one will take these products with them to Poland. Previously, yes, they did, especially tourists, to save on food.
When going through passport and customs control with government officials, it is better not to start a conversation yourself. Do everything they say, present everything they ask. As a rule, these are guys without a sense of humor.
In Poland, when driving on the roads, you must turn on low beam headlights. If you drive with side lights or fog lights, you may be fined. Poles don’t like tinted cars either; they force them to rip off the tinting.

Traveling through Poland.
Finally you are in Poland in the small border town of Terespol. There are a lot of signs in Russian along the road. The road is numbered E30. There are also Polish inscriptions. (joke). If you see a large sign that says “Sklep”, don’t be alarmed, this is the name of the store in Polish.

You can exchange currency at these exchangers. Just be very careful and careful and first ask how much money they will give you. Of course, it is more profitable to exchange euros for zlotys.

Roads in Poland are smooth, mostly two-lane. There is a solid line to the right. If you are going to overtake someone, then the person being overtaken presses to the right and lets you pass. You do the same. Very similar to driving in Greece. Speed ​​in populated areas of Poland from 5 am to 23.00 - 50 km/h, from 23.00 to 5 am - 60 km/h. Outside populated areas 90 km/h. This is for cars up to 3.5 tons. On motorways the speed limit is 130 km/h. You are required to drive with your headlights on low beam for 24 hours. A settlement in Poland is indicated by the sign “silhouettes of houses on a white background.”
If you are driving through Poland on weekends, be prepared for some traffic jams, especially in the first half of the day. Poles are very religious people and at this time the whole family gathers in churches, which are usually located along the roads. They park their cars along the roadway.
After crossing the border, it is advisable to stop somewhere to have a snack and exchange money. About 10 kilometers from the border there is a place called Pajero.

The town of Pajero in Poland.

There is a good cafe and a money exchange office with a favorable exchange rate. Exchange euros for zlotys. There is also a small grocery store where you can buy water or juices for the trip. We bought Krakow sausage here, but we couldn’t eat it all the way, it was too peppery.
In general, in Poland, all roadside restaurants and cafes readily accept euros as payment. Every 30-50 kilometers there are roadside cafes and gas stations with toilets. It is not at all necessary to use a navigator in Poland; everything is clear on a simple map that can be bought at any gas station. Many Polish words, and especially names, are very similar to ours.

A very cozy cafe in Poland, where you can have a tasty and inexpensive snack.

Along the roads there are often road signs with the words “Uvaga”. These are usually warnings that you are being monitored by video cameras. True, we saw the signs, but we didn’t see the cameras themselves anywhere.
Studded tires are prohibited in Poland. Therefore, if you are going to Poland in your car in winter, then it would be advisable to install a winter non-studded Velcro on your car. There is practically no snow like we have in Russia in Poland, but the roads in some places, especially outside populated areas, can be very slippery.

Entrance to a toll road in Poland.