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New Year’s superstitions Posted by Kasia on Dec 29, 2012
The New Year (Nowy Rok) is right around the corner, a time we set aside for getting rid of the old and bringing in the new. Throughout history, most cultures have drawn an association between a person’s actions on that New Year’s Day and their fate during the following year. Here are a few of…
How to say Merry Christmas in Polish Posted by Kasia on Dec 23, 2012
Christmas is the most important, meaningful and favourite Polish holiday. In Polish it is called “Boże Narodzenie” or “Święta Bożego Narodzenia”, which means Christmas Holiday or literally the holy birth. It is totally dedicated to religion, tradition and family. How to say “Merry Christmas” in Polish? Here you find greetings and a few expressions, that…
World’s smallest monkey Posted by Kasia on Dec 22, 2012
A baby pygmy marmoset (pigmej pazurczatka) – the world’s smallest monkey (najmniejsza na świecie małpka) – has been born at the municipal zoo in Lódź, central Poland. The minuscule monkeys (mikroskopijne małpki), which hail from the rainforests of Latin America, grow to just 15 cm, and a newly-born marmoset is barely as long as a…
Romantic Polish city Kraków Posted by Kasia on Dec 15, 2012
It is no scecret that Kraków is a romantic gothic city. It is a city that dates back actually about 50,000 years if you include pre-Slavic history. However, the golden age was in the Middle Ages. The time of castles and knights and damsels. Therefore, if you have any romantic ideas, it is an excellent place…
Polish Tombs and Graves Posted by Kasia on Dec 14, 2012
Although death (śmierć) makes us all democratically equal, Polish burial sites (miejsca pochówku) may differ in looks and value a lot. The difference depends mainly on finance. The bigger and more ostentatious the grave (grób) or tomb (grobowiec), the more affluent the family is. The sites range from simple earth graves for 200$ to giant double…
The order of celebrating Christmas Holidays Posted by Kasia on Dec 7, 2012
We do not celebrate Thanksgiving (Święto Dziękczynienia) in Poland, so there is not any special day, such as the day after Thanksgiving, that marks the beginning of the Christmas season as in America. Poles do not really start celebrating Christmas until Christmas Eve, but then the Christmas season in Poland finishes much later than in America…
Christmas Spirit over the years Posted by Kasia on Dec 6, 2012
The Christmas Spirit (Duch Bożego Narodzenia) has always been strong among the Polish people. Even in the harshest and most dismal of times it has been present in their hearts. In this 21st century land, we should remember that in the old days, poverty was more widespread. But even the poorest Polish families, in Poland…