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Firstly, apologies for butchering the logo but they don’t make it easy to advertise the place. You can see all the proper images on their website here - http://www.butcheryandwine.pl/en/ Before I go any further, there are three rules for eating at this place: You like meat Someone else is paying You have made a reservation I [...]
For the millions of beautiful people living in Poland’s capital city the geographic organisation of the country is a little inconvenient. Warsaw is too far east and other cities could be better placed according to their current situation as opposed to continuing to respect the historical accidents that got them where they are today. After [...]
Change is inevitable but when it happens on a global or regional scale you need to ask “How is all this going to affect Poland?”.
It’s almost exactly three years since I last pontificated (on 20 east) about the housing market in Poland. The question is, has anything much changed since then?
My faktura for Zosia’s phone arrived the other day. She who must be obeyed had retrieved it from the postbox sometime earlier and I moved it from the dining room table to the terrace for a read. This was purely for intellectual purposes as it was already paid after more detective work had found the [...]
Want to have an extra-marital affair and keep it a secret from your spouse? Thinking about offloading toxic waste in Africa and would like to avoid the publicity? You’ve come to the right place – read on.
Polandian first broached the subject of energy back in April 2008, when guest writer Colin Ude-Lewis wrote “Polish Energy Gridlock” following a blackout in Szczecin. We’re not sure what happened to Colin – last seen “Imparting a divine influence on the mind and soul”, but the question of how Poland will power itself has been [...]
From March 10th, the book entitled ‘Golden Harvest’ by Jan Tomasz Gross and Irena Grudzińska-Gross was available in bookstores. It has been sparking stormy discussions in the press and on television for many weeks. This book, published by the Znak publishing house, touches on the history of Polish-Jewish relations. Once again Gross enters a no-go [...]
Prompted by comments on the earlier post, I did some investigation into government interference in what is played on the radio channels in various countries. I’ve been very surprised by the amount of countries that do actually regulate the airwaves, some them to a very large degree. Obviously, the adherence to the rules does vary [...]