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22 Sep, 2009

Katowice vs Birmingham

Posted by: Michał In: travel

It’s a strange thing. My first ever visit to the UK years ago brought me to Birmingham, as my family lived in Worcestershire and I had to change there. My first impression? “God, this place is as ugly as Katowice!” Katowice is a big city in the south of Poland and it’s the capital of [...]

Can’t believe it’s already been twenty years since Communism in Poland collapsed. I was still at school, had just a year or so to go till my matura (final secondary school exams) and couldn’t quite believe it when my literature teacher asked us to start reading  The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. You what?! Solzhenitsyn? [...]

25 May, 2009

In search of Europe: Poland

Posted by: Michał In: links

Ahead of June’s European elections, BBC’s Jonny Dymond visits several European states to ask votes about the EU and find out what their expectations are.
Today’s report comes from Poland, where Dymond speaks to people who’ve directly benefited from the EU expansion – either by expanding their existing businesses or by travelling abroad, acquiring news skills [...]

12 Feb, 2009

Poles apart

Posted by: Michał In: cultural beast

What does it feel like to be in a foreign country, trying to get a job?

Poles Apart from Hard Graft Theatre on Vimeo.
Thoughts? Have you seen their performance? I’d be curious to know…

27 Jan, 2009

How to recognise the recession?

Posted by: Michał In: p for press

By how many Polish people go back home. That’s if you believe the Guardian. Last weekend the paper published a couple of articles in which it outlined the most obvious signs of a recession. And they are a lower electricity consumption and reverse migration of Poles (is there such a thing, or have I just [...]

14 Dec, 2008

Poland’s recycled style

Posted by: Michał In: p for press

So here’s something for all you fashionistas. A good article in today’s New York Times about Poland’s latest fad – second hand shops:
Thrift stores here have become impromptu laboratories of the changing mores and attitudes in a country adjusting to newfound wealth. Young Poles here in the capital are now confident enough in their ability [...]


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