My occasional series Pole poll is back with a bang. Well, with a flash – as today’s ‘subject’ is a Pole, but also a very fine photographer. He’s also very private, so I’ve abandoned the usual format of five questions and five answers to concentrate more on his superb project called ‘From The Upper Deck‘. [...]
It’s a strange thing. My first ever visit to the UK years ago brought me to Birmingham, as my family lived in Worcestershire and I had to change there. My first impression? “God, this place is as ugly as Katowice!” Katowice is a big city in the south of Poland and it’s the capital of [...]
From today you can also browse the POLSKI blog on your mobile. No matter whether you’re using the iPhone or another mobile device, you should be able to read the blog in its mobile version. You can still switch to the full version if you want to, but the optimised mobile version is easier and [...]
The cultural autumn in London will have a distinctly Polish flavour. And you don’t even need to look far. A new Polish movie called ‘Tricks’ is on general release now and it’s getting good reviews. Dulwich Picture Gallery is having an exhibition called The Polish Connection. This from their website: In 1790 the last King [...]
So, it’s getting colder again. The summer is almost over. Yet my supermarket is still selling some lovely blueberries. Over the past couple of months I’ve been religiously buying them fresh. I just thought my daily cereal routine – dominated by bananas, apples and sometimes raisins – needed an injection of fresh, seasonal fruit. And [...]
It would seem London – any London – is quite popular with Poles. To be honest, I had no idea that the Canadian city of London, Ontario was also a popular destination for Poles. But an article I’ve just seen on a Canadian site, the London Free Press claims that: An estimated 20,000 Polish people [...]
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