Archive for September, 2011
Janusz Morgenstein passed away. Posted by Kasia on Sep 12, 2011
An outstanding Polish movie director Janusz Morgenstern died on September 6th. He was 89 years old.He was a head of Movies’ Studio Perspective and the graduate of the Film School in Łódź. One of Andrzej Wajda’s closest associates, they worked together during directing the movie “Kanał”(“Canal” 1956). Morgenstern was also the second director of Wajda’s movie”Popiół…
Barcelona opens football school in Poland Posted by Kasia on Sep 9, 2011
Barcelona has opened a football school (szkoła piłki nożnej) in Poland to help develop talented young players (utalentowanych młodych graczy) from the country. Program director Xevi Marce and former defender Julio Alberto Moreno announced the opening of the Warsaw school at a news conference on Thursday, in the presence of around a dozen recruited boys, who…
Honoratka restaurant Posted by Kasia on Sep 7, 2011
One of the most frequent items on each traveller’s list is trying the local cuisine. There is a lot of restaurants on the Old Town in Warsaw, but it is hard to pick one which is reasonably prised and verified with food quality and good relation between price and value. Chopin is a big name…
Domestic violence in Poland Posted by Kasia on Sep 6, 2011
I today’s blog I would like to mention very sad topic – domestic violence – przemoc domowa. I have never experienced that in my life, but I have friends who did. It is very upsetting. At the beginning it was hard for me to believe that a lot of women have no courage to stop…