the POLSKI blog

March is always a busy month for me as many of my good friends celebrate their birthdays. And many of them are Polish. I have recently realised that this basic phrase – happy birthday – has not featured in my Polish your Polish series yet. What an oversight! So what do you say (or write, [...]

I have just noticed that our Facebook fan page already has 78 fans, yippee! That’s absolutely fantastic! Thank you. But the question is: when will we break the 100 barrier? Perhaps I should think of some incentive, but what should it be? Ideas? In the meantime, you can join the Facebook page by clicking on [...]

Have a look at this. This is a Polish group called Karbido, they use only one instrument – a wooden table: They apparently performed during the Edinburgh Festival a couple of years ago, but to be honest I have never heard of them before. They look intriguing. Have you seen them perform live? I’d love [...]

Well, Polish-Ukrainian. With some Argentinian influences. Dagadana is a new group, which has just taken Poland by storm. Their debut CD was released earlier this month, but I’m told it’s very hard to find it in shops as it sells out within minutes. According to their MySpace page, Dagadana’s music is a fusion of jazz, [...]

Years ago, when the inflation in Poland was in triple figures, we were all multi-millionaires. I remember getting as a student a salary in the region of 14,000,000 old Polish Zloty, which would nowadays be worth probably around £300 or less. I completely forgot what these notes used to look like until I stumbled across [...]

You may have heard about the latest installation at Tate Modern in London by Miroslaw Balka, called How it is. It’s been there since October last year and – like every major installation in the Turbine Hall – it’s been covered by most mainstream UK media already. I only managed to see it for the [...]

When I started this blog, I wanted people to change their view of Poland. Out with the old, in with the new. Glad things are changing. There are more and more Polish cultural events in the UK, I see more and more people who come to London just to visit – not to work – [...]

If your commute takes ages – like mine – and if you keep complaining about not having enough time to digest your dinner, consider Cittaslow. It would seem north-eastern Poland, with its lakes and forests and endless green fields, is hoping to attract people who want to live their lives in the slow lane. Hence [...]