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My recent music posts concentrated mostly on some new Polish artists, but I’ve just come across a really old video which gave me goose pimples and made me shout with joy.
Everybody, may I introduce you to one of the best Polish bands ever, Maanam.
At the height of their career – and this was way back [...]

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I wrote about it some time ago here, so I won’t be repeating myself. The short answer is: they can be, but in general nowadays they are only slightly colder than their British equivalents.
Anyway, all this is just a lame excuse to share this video with you. Enjoy.

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By how many Polish people go back home. That’s if you believe the Guardian. Last weekend the paper published a couple of articles in which it outlined the most obvious signs of a recession. And they are a lower electricity consumption and reverse migration of Poles (is there such a thing, or have I just [...]

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The current economic situation in the UK has already forced many Poles to go back home. For many casual workers earning their living in the UK no longer makes (economic) sense. They came here to seek a better live, mostly because Poland’s unemployment rate in recent years went through the [...]

Saw that on Channel 4 last night and couldn’t resist. This is what some Polish technical university students did in Wrocław, south-west Poland.
Using a PC, hundreds of lightbulbs and… their halls of residence they recreated Snake, a simple game you usually play on your mobile (that’s pre-iPhone, of course). Quite cool.