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 its outrage [...]

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, irrelevant [...]

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 [...]

While browsing through my enormous backlog of unread blog posts I came across a short post on Bar Mleczny, another UK-based Polish blog, about Polish food in the UK.
Well, there are two pieces of news to share in fact.
First, Tesco has decided to double the amount of Polish food it offers as its customers are [...]

Ever heard of Kindle? Or Nook? If you haven’t you most certainly will as it would seem the days of paper-based books and newspapers appear to be numbered. Although when exactly – if ever – e-readers like Kindle or Nook will successfully exterminate traditional books is yet to be confirmed.
Now Poland has jumped on the [...]

So, it’s getting colder again. The summer is almost over. Yet my supermarket is still selling some lovely blueberries. Over the past couple of months I’ve been religiously buying them fresh. I just thought my daily cereal routine – dominated by bananas, apples and sometimes raisins – needed an injection of fresh, seasonal fruit.
And obviously, [...]

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 posters and [...]

Today’s anniversary (read more about it here and leave your comments too!) prompted one of the largest Polish portals, Gazeta.pl to launch a couple of unique services.

The first one is called ‘A postcard from Poland’ and is a massive collection of photographs depicting what Poles were doing today at midday, twenty day after the collapse [...]