Sushi anyone? Posted by Kasia on Mar 10, 2012
Sushi is popular in Poland’s urban centers. Seriously popular. An informal study of Warsaw magazines reveals that about 12% of all the city’s restaurants sell it – and even then you probably want to book a table on a Friday night to make sure you get some. It seems that to Varsovians (Warszawiacy), sushi says…
Apply for your visa early! Posted by Kasia on Mar 9, 2012
Football fans who plan on travelling to Poland for EURO 2012 and require entry visas are entitled to file their visa applications from March 8th 2012! Although there are still three months to go until EURO 2012 kicks off, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs encourages all football fans who need visas to come to Poland…
Happy Women’s Day! Posted by Kasia on Mar 8, 2012
Today is International Women’s Day (Międzynarodowy Dzień Kobiet) , the day to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women and spread awareness of remaining and future challenges. In Poland Międzynarodowy Dzień Kobiet was celebrated as long as I remember. I always thought that women have their day everywhere around the world – at least once…
Włodzimierz Smolarek – Polish football hero Posted by Kasia on Mar 7, 2012
Włodzimierz Smolarek, one of the finest players in the history of Polish football, has died in his home town of Aleksandrów Łódzki. He was 55. The peak of his career was in the 1980s, when he played 60 matches for the national team, scoring 13 goals. Polish fans have fresh in their memory Smolarek’s wonderful…
Przekleństwa – curse words Posted by Kasia on Mar 6, 2012
Ah, swear words, what an underestimated subject… Considered rude, but, really, a true necessity of life. Don’t leave your home without them. When it comes to Polish translation, in certain contexts, the swear words (curse words), przekleństwa, have their both prominent and well-deserved role to play. True, English is not completely toothless in this respect, but…
Deadly train crash in Poland Posted by Kasia on Mar 4, 2012
Two trains running on the same track collided head-on (zderzyły się czołowo) in southern Poland last night, killing 15 people and leaving 56 injured. The accident (wypadek), which is the worst train disaster (katastrofa) in Poland in more than 20 years, happened late last night on the Warsaw-Kraków mainline in the small town of Szczękociny. As the severity…
“Crazy Guides” Communism Tours in Kraków Posted by Kasia on Mar 2, 2012
These tours are not your average guided tour (wycieczka z przewodnikiem). With a little help from a ‘Crazy Guide’ driving around in a brightly painted Eastern bloc Trabant, visitors to Kraków are taken back in time to discover the city’s Communist history. “We try to make our customers understand and feel what the real Poland…