May 20, 2012 | Angelica | Seasonal and Events, Sports, Wroclaw | No Comments
This year the Member of NATO, EU and UN and WTO will be the host country for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship. Poland is the 8th most populous country in Europe and from June 8, you will see the final tournament hosted in both Poland as well as Ukraine until the 1st July. It is a first time for Poland. The winning team will enter the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil. During t... [read more]
TAGS: 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, Euro 2012, Municipal Stadiums, Stadion Miejski in Wroclaw, Wroclaw Stadion May 16, 2012 | Angelica | Eat and Drink, Krakow, Nightlife | No Comments
If you do not know by now, the traditional Polish dessert is Gingerbread. The Polish traditional drinks are like Kompot or Compote, Oranzada or Orangeade, Wodka (Vodka), Piwo (Beer), Nalewki (Liqueurs) and Miod pitny (Mead). Today, we are going to talk about these traditional drinks and while you will be visiting Poland, you might want to try one or a few if not all of them. The first Compot... [read more]
TAGS: beer, Compote, nalewka, orangeade, polish traditional drinks, vodka May 12, 2012 | Angelica | Beaches, Cultural, Getting Around, Hel, Historical, Kashubia, Sights | No Comments
Of 34 Kilometers, Hel was the center of the herring trade in the 12th century. The Hel city at the tip of the Hel Peninsula leads you to Pucka Bay and Baltic Sea which are on both its sides. This place has beautiful beaches, where you can rest your toes in soft sands that feels like silk and you can run along the shores where pretty resorts are intermittently located. Many authors, artists, ri... [read more]
TAGS: fishing houses, fokarium, Hel, Jastarnia, Kazubian culture, Kuznica, ul Wiejska 
This year the Member of NATO, EU and UN and WTO will be the host country for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship. Poland is the 8th most populous country in Europe and from June 8, you will see the final tournament hosted in both Poland as well as Ukraine until the 1st July. It is a first time for Poland. The winning team will enter the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil. During this time, Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and Wroclaw will become really popular amongst tourists. New stadiu... [read more]
If you do not know by now, the traditional Polish dessert is Gingerbread. The Polish traditional drinks are like Kompot or Compote, Oranzada or Orangeade, Wodka (Vodka), Piwo (Beer), Nalewki (Liqueurs) and Miod pitny (Mead). Today, we are going to talk about these traditional drinks and while you will be visiting Poland, you might want to try one or a few if not all of them. The first Compotes may contain spices, like cloves and mostly made with fresh or dried fruits. For example, in Polan... [read more]
Of 34 Kilometers, Hel was the center of the herring trade in the 12th century. The Hel city at the tip of the Hel Peninsula leads you to Pucka Bay and Baltic Sea which are on both its sides. This place has beautiful beaches, where you can rest your toes in soft sands that feels like silk and you can run along the shores where pretty resorts are intermittently located. Many authors, artists, rich professionals come here for a short getaway between the times of WWI and WWII. Jurata has many va... [read more]
There is an area of 32 square kilometers of sands in the Bledow Desert in Poland. It can also be found in the Klucze village. It is in the Silesian Highlands in the Silesian Voivodeship. Despite only 32 square kilometers, it is still the largest in Central Europe. All thanks to the melting glacier thousands of years ago. From the Middle Ages, 40 meters thick of sand layer, nowadays, there are even occurrence of mirages.Silesian Culture and Recreation ParkIn this large park of up to 620 h... [read more]
The Katowicki Park Leśny is also the Forest Park of Katowice with a huge land area of 420 hectares. This amazing place is between highways, train tracks, airports, coal mines as well as apartment blocks. This wooded wilderness just does not make you feel you are in Katowice. It is a protected natural Forest park territory including the Valley of Three Ponds. Boar, wild ones, deers can be found through the woods and miles and miles of it contains the marking of trails. If you enjoy the natur... [read more]
Want to see the gorgeous riverside sanctuary of Poland? Then you must go to Skałka, Kościół Paulinów, Pauline Church. This is one of the most important religious sites in Krakow. Historically, the King Boleslaw the Bold accused Stanislaw Szczepanski and had him beheaded. The reason was of treason but the king’s family was sort of under a curse and they tried to appease the spirit. Pauline Church was built and the royal family made regular pilgrimages at the church to atone for the mur... [read more]
‘Tak’ is the Polish ‘yes’, to express ‘no’ you say ‘nie’, pronounced as ‘nyeh’. The Polish said ‘OK’ by saying ‘Dobrze’. Beyond the yes and no, we may want to ask some simple questions when the time and opportunity arise. For example, if you want to ask ‘What’ you say ‘Co’, to ask ‘Where’ you can say ‘Gdzie’ or ‘guh’. To ask ‘when’, you can ask ‘Kiedy’ and this is pronounced as ‘key yeh dey’. Why and how, so for ‘who’ you say â€... [read more]
What we called garlands, for the Poles in Polish they are the ‘Wianki’. This is the largest annual cultural event, with music and also performances. Besides having a competition for the most beautiful wreath amongst the ladies, there are other activities like fortune telling, burning of herbs and jumping over bonfires. The overall impression as well as the use of the artistic elements with a close reference to the tradition are evaluated during the garland competition. A little historica... [read more]
Wonderful culture in theater, writing and music is what Poland is well endowed with. The Poles could have been thorn emotionally with their national struggles, the Second World War and the Holocaust. One hundred and fifty years had passed but the haunting feeling still remains. Literary Tradition of Poland The major Polish literature was in Latin and it was so until the early 18th century. One of the greatest poet is Czesław Miłosz who is also a prose writer as well as a translator. The cl... [read more]
Check out this medium-sized port city that is inhabited with only 126 thousand people. Elblag is in the Northern Poland belonging to the Warmińsko-Mazurskie voivodeship. The people here live on this city that lies on the Elblag River. This 14.5 kilometer river connects to Lake Druzno and the Vistula Lagoon. Infact, Lake Druzno is not deep to qualify as a lake. Jagielloński and Elblaski Channels as well as some other lakes are in vicinity. So if you like lakes and nature, this might be a go... [read more]
