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13 Dec, 2009

Stamps and stockings

Posted by: Michał In: links| p for press| so very Polish

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 [...]

10 Dec, 2009

More Polish food at Tesco

Posted by: Michał In: feeeed me!| so very Polish

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 [...]

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04 Nov, 2009

New Polish e-reader

Posted by: Michał In: so very Polish

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 [...]

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14 Sep, 2009

Ah, blueberries…

Posted by: Michał In: feeeed me!| so very Polish

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, [...]

22 Jun, 2009

Traces of Poland in New York

Posted by: Michał In: bits and bobs| so very Polish| travel

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 [...]


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    Piece of ManufakturaGlassesGold PlateTea Serviceangel in blueClocksWindowsGold HandsChandelier

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The POLSKI blog is written by Michał, a Polish journalist, writer, one-time language teacher and linguist, living and working in London.

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