Whining about Polish customer service is a Polandian tradition, and what better time to indulge than our first birthday. My local shop, conveniently situated about 100 meters from the front door of my building, has a lot of points in its favor. It sells about 50 percent of the things one might normally need, the [...]

Recently some moronic foreigners have been heard moaning about the feebleness of Polish winters these days. I won’t mention any names to save embarrassment. Fortunately the ill-informed rantings of these laughable fools have been silenced by what the locals like to call a ‘winter attack.’ Today I went outside and several important parts of my [...]

I apologise for the rushed and badly prepared post but we’re off to sunny Spain tomorrow and I’ve not got a lot of time between wrestling suitcases and calming down an excited 5yr old! The gist of the post is “What do you all think about these missiles, then?”. I think it’s a bigger story [...]

Richard Harradine has been a guest writer on Polandian before. Undeterred by the terrible reviews and the way his old friends just stopped talking to him, he’s back with more! As someone who has spent most of his adult life in the theatre business from acting to voice over, directing to producing, my company here [...]

This is not the most important thing about Polish men, nor the most striking. Yet when you socialise with the Poles or live in Poland, and you lead your normal life, this is something you sooner or later come across… Poles are amazingly prudish – they are too shy to be naked! Whenever you go [...]