the POLSKI blog

Some things leave me speechless. Like this one. What you see in this picture is a newly-designed logo for Nowy Sacz, a city in the south of Poland. You may like it or not, but would you ever think it promotes Satanism and homosexuality? Sadly, that’s exactly what the local pastoral ministry thinks. It expressed [...]

This is an interesting initiative. Polish manufacturers from Wisła, a tourist resort in Beskidy, south of Poland, have had enough of cheap ‘local’ souvenirs mass-produced in China with little or no relevance to locally produced goods. From now on they want to promote local souvenirs, food and other products and, to distinguish them from cheap, [...]

When I say fresh here, I mean new – new to me at least. I’ve discovered  Michał by accident when someone posted a link to this lovely video. Michał talks about his music (in Polish, but with English subtitles) and the clip is illustrated with his fantastic acoustic jazz. According to his site, his debut [...]

I noticed today that Poland’s once biggest bank had opened a branch in central London. PKO Bank Polski has a nice shiny branch in Shaftesbury Avenue. Weird location if you ask me, but maybe there are more branches in other parts of London. As it’s Sunday, I couldn’t go inside and check what’s on offer, [...]