Archive for February, 2013
Why ski in Poland? Posted by Kasia on Feb 6, 2013
It’s a question everyone will be asking about this winter: “Where can we get the very best value for money for our ski/ snowboarding holiday this season?”. There are of course many opinions on this subject. Poland is certainly a place that people will not be surprised to hear has LOW prices. What people are…
Difficult past in the movies Posted by Kasia on Feb 3, 2013
Two of the best films on the Holocaust, “Schindler’s List” by Steven Spielberg and “The Pianist” by Roman Polański, both feature exceptional Germans performing noble actions during the second world war. In a similar vein, “In Darkness”, directed by Agnieszka Holland, and Poland’s nominee for the 2012 Oscars, tells the story of a Polish Catholic…
Józef Glemp Posted by Kasia on Feb 2, 2013
Cardinal Józef Glemp, primate of Poland during the Solidarity years, died on January 23rd, aged 83. HE WAS small. That was the first thing people noticed about him, even before the jug ears, the simian upper lip and the habit he had, a disconcerting one, of closing his eyes when he spoke. His churchman’s cappa and…