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Złota Polska jesień Posted by Kasia on Sep 16, 2011
Autumn is one of my favorite seasons with its beautiful colors…I live in the White Mountains, a place known for beautiful, colorful falls…In fact we have so many people visiting during that season, that we call them “the leaf peepers”. They come here to admire bright red, yellow, purple and gold colors.Polish autumn has more…
Bogusha’s Polish Restaurant & Deli Posted by Kasia on Sep 15, 2011
I live in New Hampshire, but unfortunately there are no Polish restaurants or Polish grocery stores close by. So I was really excited when on my day trip to Portland, ME I discovered this little Polish deli and restaurant. The owner – very nice Polish lady – was really friendly. She spoke to my husband…
Polska?Tak! Posted by Kasia on Sep 14, 2011
I was searching you tube videos and here is what I found: Russel Crowe, Robert Duvall, Robert Redford and John Cleese are just some of the stars featuring in a new promotional film made by Poland’s Foreign Ministry. The twelve-minute promo features Morgan Freeman reminiscing about a ravishing Cracovian restaurant and Robert Redford paying tribute…
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…