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 [...]

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 [...]

With the smoking ban in Poland having been in place approximately 7 months (since November 15th 2010), it’s an interesting time to consider smoking in Poland and whether the ban has made a difference, and the attitudes to smoking in general. What was most interesting to note was that the introduction of the smoking ban [...]

“We’re on a road to nowhere, come on inside, takin’ that ride to nowhere, we’ll take that ride” Talking Heads “Road to Nowhere” If you were to take a drive in an easterly direction from Krakow city centre, towards Nowa Huta, and travel on Aleja Pokoju, you would find one of Krakow’s newest roads. It [...]

In China, they have the year of the tiger, monkey, rat and so on. This year in Poland seems to be the year of the anniversary. Whether going shopping, watching television or just living life, it’s not difficult to notice advertising, and a footnote to many advertisements at the moment seems to be that 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.

Welcome ladies, gentlemen and general onlookers. We’re here at the pre-fight weigh-in with two formidable fighters lining up for this heavyweight clash to claim the Polish championship crown. This one has been building up for some time, with parties from each camp locking horns in minor skirmishes, but this looks like being the big one. [...]

For those that have travelled on Polish roads, there are many things to watch out for, not least the potentially erratic driving skills of Polish drivers and road quality levels. However, another point which catches the eye is how many cars tend to have multiple aerials (or antennae) protruding from various parts of the vehicles. [...]

In Malta over the Easter weekend I stumbled on one of the thousands of World War II grave sites that are tucked away in every corner of the world. This one, the Kalkara Naval Cemetery, like many, contains the remains of a few Polish servicemen. There are also German, Italian, British, French Japanese(!) and, of [...]

An anniversary might be the best reason to mark my presence on Polandian for the third time this year. Most of the readers probably not only do remember about the disaster in Chernobyl, but also still have in mind the days after the disaster itself. I unfortunately cannot reminisce those strange days, as I was [...]