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31 Mar, 2009

Visit Poland with the Londoneer

Posted by: Michał In: photography| travel

During a recent bloggers meet-up in London I had a nice chat with many bloggers, but missed one, whose blog – The Londoneer – I discovered post factum.
The Londoneer is well-travelled and recently published a couple of posts after his visit to Lodz, an old industrial city in the heart of Poland, not far from [...]

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30 Mar, 2009

Polish sausages

Posted by: Michał In: feeeed me!| so very Polish

My good friend from uni, Kasia, came to London last week for a short trip with her students.
“What do you want from Poland?” she asked me over the phone. Hmm, the list can run into pages – new music, good books, a bottle of good vodka, sausages.
“Sausages,” I said without hesitation. “Actually just one, we [...]

25 Mar, 2009

Do not adjust your TV sets!

Posted by: Michał In: so very Polish| travel

Some discoveries surprise me more than others. I have only just learned that Poland might be a byword for extreme sports. Well, some extreme sports.
A Polish website reports on a regular contest, which allegedly has already been taking place in a remote part of north-east Poland for 19 editions (how did that bypass me?) – [...]

My previous post made me realise some of my readers might be a bit confused now. Why ‘Polska’, if the blog is called ‘Polski’? What’s the difference?
Well, let me confuse you even more.
‘Polska’ can be used as a noun, a proper name – simply the name of the country, Poland.
But ‘polska’ (with a small ‘p’) [...]

14 Mar, 2009

Polska! Year

Posted by: Michał In: cultural beast| so very Polish

Good news if you live in the UK and want to experience more Polish culture locally. For the next year cities all over Britain will participate in an initiative called Polska! Year. According to the organisers’ website,
The purpose of the Year is to bring communities of Poland and Great Britain closer by strengthening cultural relations, [...]

12 Mar, 2009

This week’s headlines

Posted by: Michał In: links| p for press

Busy week, very little time for blogging, but I thought you might like to read the following:

Pole in first ever YouTube orchestra

U2 are getting ready for their second gig in Poland this summer

Poland abandons drive to lure workers home – not precisely true when you read the actual article, but yes, looks like some councils’ [...]

04 Mar, 2009

There’s no ‘w’…

Posted by: Michał In: it's a sign!| wódka with a W

Found in a magazine over the weekend. Exactly what I’ve been telling you all along, just look at the name of the category this was posted in. (OK, there’s not much else in the category yet, but it’s simply because I haven’t been ’sampling’ much recently’…. *ahem*)

02 Mar, 2009

Spotify – now with some Polish music

Posted by: Michał In: cultural beast| links

If you, like me, have become addicted to Spotify, the brilliant new music service which allows you to create and share free collaborative playlists, you may enjoy this.
The link below is the Polski Blog’s ‘Best of Polish Music’ playlist (thanks Kai for the idea) which you can open (using Spotify, of course), listen to and [...]



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