the POLSKI blog

Twitter search is a beautiful thing. You type in a keyword and you get instant notifications whenever someone posts a tweet about the topic you’re after. So this evening I typed ‘Polish’ and realised that the amount of messages about nail varnish is simply mind-blowing. Apart from that I also learned that today is the [...]

I promised a few weeks ago a recipe for the famous Polish sour soup, żurek. It’s a staple Polish dish and in recent years it has enjoyed a bit of a revival – when you go to Poland, some places will serve żurek in a loaf of bread (see the tumbnail photo above). I recently [...]

Had a bit of a long break with my Polish lessons, but just got back from Greece (lovely and sunny Cycladic Islands) and realised again how important it is to know just a few basic phrases. You don’t need to be fluent, you don’t need to shine, but just make the effort and learn a [...]

When I used to work near Holborn I used to drag my colleagues (or were dragged myself) to a little place, tucked away in a narrow passage just behind Holborn tube station, called Bar Polski. Not for patriotic resons, mind. I just loved their range of vodkas, back then almost totally unknown in Britain – [...]