It is difficult to know what to expect of a country purely from a few facts learnt prior to your arrival. However, something that I’d learnt, and was really quite impressed with, before getting to the Czech Republic is that it is the nation with the highest consumption rates of beer globally – really impressive …
It would have been weird for us to travel through Silesia and not spend a few days in its capital, Katowice. At first, we were only intending to stay for a weekend as we were expecting a visitor to fly out to meet us, but as their plans changed so did ours, and a bit …
I think the mountain air may have got to me as for the first time this trip I have decided to write the beer article! Zakopane is a resort town in the south of Poland, famed for its spectacular landscapes of the Tatra Mountains which surround it. As well as these over two million tourists …
Most visitors to the Zabłocie district of Kraków travel there exclusively to see Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory. Others head there to visit MOCAK, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków. However, from my experience it appears that only ourselves and a few primary school aged groups make the trip there to explore the Lipowa 3 …
While Łódź is somewhat unique in Poland in that it was not destroyed in World War Two, the same cannot be said for its ghetto area. Whereas the impact on the central infrastructure was minimal, the Łódź Ghetto was razed to the ground and the lasting impact on the Jewish population of the city was …
Walking around Warsaw it is still quite surprising that less than eighty years ago nearly the whole city was destroyed, and all that is there today has been restored, rebuilt or repurposed. Despite beautiful restorations, especially in the Old Town, what is evident is the culture and traditions that have been upheld in the city, …
