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22 Dec, 2011

Visit Poland – virtually

Posted by: Michał In: travel

Christmas is just around the corner, many of us will have a lot of time to do things we’d normally not do. So why not visit Poland? Too late too book? Maybe. But there’s a site that offers virtual trips across Poland and there’s plenty to look at. Wirtualny Kraj allows you to browse various [...]

17 Jun, 2011

Poland – feel invited

Posted by: Michał In: travel

Tempted now?  

31 May, 2011

Polish poems on the Tube

Posted by: Michał In: cultural beast|travel

  Those of you who live in London are probably familiar with Poems on the Underground, a Transport for London initiative to display short poems in Tube carriages. From tomorrow, you will also be able to read Polish poetry on London Underground as TfL is celebrating centenary of Czeslaw Milosz – a well-known Polish poet, [...]

09 Dec, 2010

Katowice: where old meets new

Posted by: Michał In: photography|travel

To mark the beginning of its “A year in images” photo exhibition in Katowice, Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza has published this short time-lapse, tilt-shift video about Katowice. I’ve mentioned the city many times on this blog, partly because I know it well, partly because it’s eventually, although very slowly, shedding its “dirty, industrial and boring” [...]

16 Nov, 2010

Poznan: Eastern energy, Western style

Posted by: Michał In: so very Polish|travel

Another Polish city is about to pump some serious money into an international TV campaign to promote itself. Poznan, one of the oldest Polish cities, for decades recognised as an important trade centre favoured by many Polish entrepreneurs, will be showing a series of ads across a number of TV channels in Britain and elsewhere. [...]

27 Aug, 2010

The Londoneer explores the Polish War Memorial

Posted by: Michał In: travel

The Londoneer, quoted by me many times before on this very site, wrote a brief post on the Polish War Memorial in London. Usually mentioned in traffic bulletins only (“heavy traffic on the A40 near the Polish War Memorial”), the monument commemorates the Polish airmen who fought for Britain during World War II. Pete wonders [...]

25 Apr, 2010

How many times have you visited Poland?

Posted by: Michał In: travel

Not that many, is the shortest answer. According to yesterday’s Observer, in 2008 (or was it 2009? it wasn’t terribly clear), 1.58m people visited Poland from the UK. That number rose by 1.7% compared to, presumably, the previous year. In the same period 1.49m people came from Poland to visit the UK, an increase of [...]

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20 Apr, 2010

“Green Nobel” for a Polish environmentalist

Posted by: Michał In: travel

I’ve recommended north-eastern parts of Poland a few times before, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned the Rospuda Valley. Like many areas in that part of Poland, Rospuda Valley is quite spectacular. To quote a recent AP report: the Rospuda Valley [is] a pristine area in northeastern Poland containing a peat bog amid a virgin [...]

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