Experiments are what moves the humanity forward, but the particular one carried out in Poland over the past weekend turned out to be a flop… Predictably. The originator of the venture called “A weekend without causualties“* was the National Roads and Motorways Authority. The end was noble and maybe for that reason it justified peculiar [...]

For the past four weeks, Britian’s The Guardian newspaper has run a series it has called New Europe. It has spent one week each analysing Germany, France, Spain and finally in the past week, Poland. The introduction to the series says “Who are our neighbours? Too often Europe is discussed and reported through its common [...]

It might not always happen that Polish people reach the top of the world in their professions or endeavours. However, when it comes to mountain-climbing, Poland can claim to have reached the summit of achievement (pun intended). There are 14 mountains in the world which are over 8,000 metres in height – all of them [...]

Apologies but while my fellow Polandians wallow in post-Christmas-excess misery I can sneak in with something about my favourite subject, the laughable state of the Polish road network (oxymoron alert!).

I can’t remember a time when there was so much new and relatively exciting development going on in Warsaw. In mid-construction we have the national stadium, the Copernicus science centre, the Jewish museum and the new north bridge and shortly to join that list is the new Museum of Modern Art next to the Palace [...]

Flooding is nothing new to Krakow. In the short time I’ve been living here the Vistula has threatened to burst its fortified banks three times, but this is the worst I’ve seen. The emergency barriers are in place and the churning coffee-coloured water is coming perilously close to testing them. The river has risen at least a meter since yesterday (Monday), and it was higher than I’ve seen it even then. Another couple of days of this rain and it’s going to get very messy indeed.