Embassy Of The Polish Republic

I was so far twice at the embassy and both times the place was suffering from the large number of my compatriots living or visiting the islands, which seems to be a current trend in the international affairs, at least for the past ten years or so. First time I went there, which was during the presidential elections, the line to vote was winding up behind the street corner. Although there were two poll stations inside the building open to vote and the third one just around the corner in the consulate building at New Cavendish Street it seemed that everyone in England subscribed to the same poll station. And obviously all of the people had to wait in a huge line rather than smoothly load balancing the congestion among lots of the polling stations across the UK or even in the very same building.
The second time I have visited the embassy was for the Polish Tech Event. It was quite exciting to see how Polish tech scene is developing. However once again the demand paralyzed the organizers. I came quite late, almost at the end of the official part, which were the discussion panels. Although the event was free there was mandatory registration with limited places so that everyone would fit into the room. However lots of people had to stay outside the main room. From what I have heard about the people who were inside, we were actually lucky to stay out. As it was a warm June day in London the temperature in the room was quite high but noone thought about turning on the air-​conditioning. If it was even existing. The informal reception that followed was very nice with lots of interesting discussions.