W-wa Jeziorki

In most people's minds, summer ends on 1 September, when schools go back. Astronomical summer ends this year on 23 September, when the s...

Over the past month, I've worked out* why Poles are so fond of long verbs of Latin or Greek derivation. It's not that they want to s...

Two interesting threads came up in my English classes today. "What's the difference between 'regardless' and 'in spite ...

I try to use the car as rarely as possible during the working week. Bike and bus/metro/rail suffice admirably for day-to-day commuting. Toda...

Ul. Nowoursynowska, a sunny Sunday afternoon in late summer. Five Dominican friars, out for a stroll in the vicinity of their Abbey. The sig...

As a small child in Polish Saturday school in London, I'd pore over maps of Poland looking at places called Łódź and Lwów, Bydgoszcz and...

In early June strawberries, then come the cherries in July, plums, blueberries and then raspberries; available everywhere - street corner fr...

[ Part I of the story here. ] Raymond was about to leave the small sack with his treasures on the table, and walk out of Lord Arnaul's h...