“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As everybody who lives in Britain knows, people in power love increasing taxes on alcohol and cigarettes in a futile attempt to curb drinking and smoking. Strangely enough, it would seem it worked in Poland. Of all countries. This dry press release quoting “the Polish spirits industry organization” claims that Poland registered a 75-percent drop [...]
27 Apr, 2009
Posted by: Michał In: bits and bobs|p for press
Or as SFGate chose to put it, “Sauerkraut for everybody!” Yes, the two cities, which couldn’t be more distant geographically and culturally, are now twinned. And if you’re in Kraków around the 3rd July, you can witness the official signing ceremony there. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom released a statement, in which he said: “I [...]
This is an absolutely fascinating – and sad – story I found on AP. Some construction workers in Oświęcim, the city the Nazis renamed Auschwitz, found a handwritten note hidden in a bottle in a concrete wall. According to the newswire, The note, written in pencil then rolled up and inserted in a bottle, contains [...]
Busy week, very little time for blogging, but I thought you might like to read the following: Pole in first ever YouTube orchestra U2 are getting ready for their second gig in Poland this summer Poland abandons drive to lure workers home – not precisely true when you read the actual article, but yes, looks [...]
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