the POLSKI blog

I just want one CD for Christmas. I know it’s almost a year old, but I’ve only just been told about it. (Yeah, thanks, ‘friends’ for keeping me up to date). And I instantly fell in love with it. Mieczyslaw Fogg was a very famous Polish crooner, whose career spanned half a century. He first [...]

This one is for music lovers planning a trip to Warsaw. To mark the bicentennial of Frederic Chopin’s birth (yes, he was Polish), the Polish capital has published a Chopin audio city guide. Available in eight languages, the guide will take tourists to some key locations related to the great pianist. You can download the [...]

I should perhaps dedicate this post to everyone who still complains about the Royal Mail in Britain. Have you ever tried its Polish equivalent, Poczta Polska? No? I’ve just read a post on one of the Wall Street Journal blogs dedicated to Central and Eastern Europe about the weird experience that is Poczta Polska. And [...]

While browsing through my enormous backlog of unread blog posts I came across a short post on Bar Mleczny, another UK-based Polish blog, about Polish food in the UK. Well, there are two pieces of news to share in fact. First, Tesco has decided to double the amount of Polish food it offers as its [...]