Sanepid, the institution protecting sanitary conditions, informed yesterday about results of an inspection that was carried in 40 Kraków’s oriental fast-food bars. Half of the establishments have failed to fulfill basic standards: inspectors encountered general mess and filth, serious malpractices in food storage, and bad waste management. One of the bars was found to constitute [...]

I’m opening a bank. I don’t really want to, but the peer pressure is becoming unbearable. Bankers are taking over my street. I don’t know what they want, or how far their willing to go, but I’m scared. More than once I’ve said to myself, “There are an awful lot of banks on this street,” [...]

We’re back with the all-male finals of our Hottest Polish Politician contest. We are looking for one guy and one gal to become the Hottest Polish Polish Politician of the year.  We will send the lucky winner a bilingual diploma they can hang in their office and show off to their friends. Last week the [...]

For what seems like forever now Krakow’s river front has been enlivened by the extraordinary sight of a giant white balloon that never goes anywhere. Suddenly appearing early last summer this vast blimp caused an awful lot of people to stop in their tracks and exclaim “Good heavens, there’s a giant white inflatable thing. I [...]

In a move widely expected to hasten the end of civilization two women have been acquitted of indecent exposure after they were found sunbathing topless on a Polish beach in May 2008. On Wednesday a Szczecin court overturned the 130 zloty fines that it had firmly, but playfully, slapped on the two naughty lasses in [...]

Polish place names crop up all over North America and other parts of the globe settled by Poles. Nothing particularly amazing about that, but when you’re lying in bed with the dreaded January virus it’s possible to become a little obsessed with looking them all up. From there it’s a small step to collecting photos [...]