the POLSKI blog

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 – and [...]

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 I couldn’t [...]

“ME AND MY BIG MOUTH”
These are his own words by the way. Of all people on this planet Stephen Fry would be the very last person in my opinion to express disparaging remarks about other nations. Yet, quite uncharacteristically for him, he did. Publicly.
How did that happen? Stephen revealed everything today on his blog, where [...]

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 call London [...]

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 have I [...]

Well, if you thought Ant and Dec exaggerated a bit when they opened the final ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ show with the words ‘the whole world is watching’ – you were wrong.
It’s not just Britain, it’s not just the English-speaking world. Poland – where the show has its local version called (rather less patriotically than its [...]