My good friend from uni, Kasia, came to London last week for a short trip with her students. “What do you want from Poland?” she asked me over the phone. Hmm, the list can run into pages – new music, good books, a bottle of good vodka, sausages. “Sausages,” I said without hesitation. “Actually just [...]
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Don’t you just hate it when you’re beaten at your own game? Looks like Poland has just lost another claim to fame. According to AFP, Bucharest attempted a new world record a day after Boxing Day, with a 392-metre (1,286-foot) smoked sausage that took two weeks to prepare and weighs a hefty 150 kilogrammes (330 [...]
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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.Polls
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