It is a generally accepted theory that there are a few stages involved in being an emigrant (moving from your own country) or immigrant (in moving into another). The main five stages are summarised below: Honeymoon phase – The “Oh my god, I’ve never seen one of those” phase where everything is great, even the [...]
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 [...]
There comes a time in every adults life when they want to relive their youth, and this quite often occurs through the medium of cartoons. The memories of many 30-somethings would have been jogged recently by the release of The Smurfs on the big screen. Everyone knows the Smurfs, although not everyone knows that they [...]
As of the 15th of August I start my seventh year of life in Poland. I thought I’d take some time to look back on the previous six years and think about what has changed and what hasn’t. We have, for the most part, more choice. Just this summer I’ve found loose habanero peppers at [...]
No… not the TV series, but rather an observation on a number of advertisements and notices recently which have touched on the subject of being lost. The topic of missing people is not one that tends to be forefront in people’s thoughts. It is all too easy to walk past a poster with an anonymous [...]
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?”.
There may be some criticism coming over the construction efforts of the stadia and infrastructure in preparation for the Euro 2012 football championships next summer, with disputes ranging from the likelihood of stadia to be ready in Ukraine to workers preparing new motorways not being paid. However, a positive for the Polish preparations at least [...]
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?
A picture paints a thousand words, and these images created by Polish artist Paweł Kuczyński display illustrations worthy of millions of words in their satirical expression. Originally from Szczecin, some of his works received recognition a few months ago through a series called ‘Stop and Think’. However for many people, they will be still unknown. [...]
