Poland Travel News

You have to be logged in to use the ReadSpeaker utility and listen to a text. It's free-of-charge. Just log in to the site or register if you are not registered user yet.

The Foundation to Illuminate Americas Heroes announced today the addition of Anthony J. Bajdek, President/Founder of the American Association of the Friends of Kosciuszko at West Point, to the growing list of members of the International Advisory Board of the Foundation, whose purpose it is to develop a Hollywood feature film telling the ... (more)

The Polish-born Holocaust survivor made his way to Northern California after the war, started out small, and eventually built his business into one of Sonoma County's largest poultry processors.

About the band: POINT REYES lived in Warsaw, Poland, from April to September 2011, supported in part by a Fulbright grant awarded to bandleader Asa Horvitz.

The number of foreign soccer fans traveling to Poland for Euro 2012 could be much lower than initially forecast, according to a new report from the country's Ministry of Sport and Tourism.

A STRIKE by French aviation workers was set to intensify today with Air France saying it might fly only half of its long-haul flights.

Wislawa Szymborska, a gentle and reclusive Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, died Wednesday in Krakow, Poland.

Pupils at St Mary's Catholic High School and Sixth Form in Astley planting a tree to mark Holocaust Memorial Day SIXTH Formers in Astley helped lead their school's commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day after an emotional trip to a Nazi concentration camp.

More deaths were reported in Eastern Europe on Thursday as the region continued to shiver in the grip of unusually frigid weather.

After 1945, like the rest of the Eastern and Central Europe, Poland fell under the dominance of Stalinist Russia-and the Soviets certainly did not dig the swing!! Consequently, only certain musical forms were allowed to flourish, particularly those with folk rhythm, without syncopation.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: On Oct. 29, 1939, the Lithuanian army, covered with flowers thrown by locals, marched via the streets of Vilnius, which was not envisaged by two former Vilnius residents, Felix Dzerzhinsky and Jozef Pilsudski , who shaped the history of Russia and Poland.

Eastern Europe shivered Tuesday in the coldest conditions seen this winter, with below-freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall leading to deaths, frostbite and widespread travel disruption.

Five of the ten European cities for which we present data this month registered Gross Operating Profit per Available Room growth in December.

Two water-bombing helicopters are helping to fight a fire at Mount Beckworth near Clunes in Victoria's north-west. Prime Minister Julia Gillard says her former staffer, Tony Hodges, made a grave error of judgement when he gave away Tony Abbott's whereabouts on Australia Day.

Gardai will also be travelling to Poland in the coming months to advise the police force about how Irish fans behave and how to defuse any situations involving drunk fans.

Soon to graduate from the National Theater Academy of his native Krakow, 23-year-old Jakub Gierszal made his screen debut in 2008, in Jacek Borcuch's "All That I Love," and followed it a year later with a supporting role in Andrzej Kondratiuk's "One Million Dollars." But it was his first lead role, as the rich, sexually conflicted Dominik in Jan ... (more)

A stormy day in Sopot, Sopot Pier Sopot is a seaside town in Eastern Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000. Sopot is a city with powiat status, in Pomeranian Voivodeship.

About the band: POINT REYES lived in Warsaw, Poland, from April to September 2011, supported in part by a Fulbright grant awarded to bandleader Asa Horvitz.

There is a relatively new bar in town. But this isn't just a bar. More accurately: there is a small, unassuming cafe and bar that's successfully blending elements from numerous concepts with style, comfort and grace.

The eRentals.co.uk website has seen a sharp increase in rental car bookings for places such as Sofia in Bulgaria, Prague in the Czech Republic, Bratislava in Slovakia and Krakow in Poland.