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Got that from my friend who travelled to Buffalo. Ain’t that sweet? Cliche? What cliche?! Tweet

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s been a very busy and eventful month for me, hence no activity on the blog, only occasional post on Twitter (a big hello to all my new followers there, by the way). And it’s a real shame I didn’t have a chance to blog more as there have been many events recently. So what [...]

I had a bit of a break and enjoyed a week in New York. But even while there you can’t escape all things Polish. Every five minutes I saw ads for Sobieski, the Polish vodka, which seems to be getting a big marketing push in New York (and I’m guessing elsewhere in America too): The [...]