W-wa Jeziorki

Here's a belated look at how things look once you've got through security at Okęcie after the (re)opening of the (new) old terminal....

Hurrah! My favourite shoe brand comes to Warsaw! For 35 years (since April 1980, to be exact) my formal shoe of choice has been Loakes. Ove...

'Carpe diem!, ' they say - so I did. I woke up at twenty past three in the morning to find it was already getting light outside. ...

Today, a day off work. Each year between late May and late June (depending on the date of Easter Sunday), the Catholic Church celebrates Cor...

I see this post has attracted huge amounts of readers (though not as many as my recent review of With Blood and Scars ). I'd like to lo...

Big thanks to regular commentator Dr Marcin from around the corner, who as well as providing me with tip-offs regarding local development, a...

Riding south out of Warsaw, I pass Nowa Wola, Jaroszowa Wola, Wola Prażmowska, Wola Wągrodzka, Wola Kukalska, Łychowska Wola, Wola Boglewska...

The pundits, the pollsters, Warsaw's chattering classes (which by definition includes me) got it wrong. The first-round shock victory of...