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Built in 1927 the Grand Hotel is the best hotel in the Tricity (Sopot, Gdansk and Gdynia) if not Poland. A huge refurbishment has recently been completed and the hotel was reopened as a Spa resort in January 2008. Location wise you couldn’t ask for much more, set in a lovely park and on a [...]

Rather than go with the traditional ‘stick an advert on the telly’ or ‘put a poster on a wall’ some companies have decided to try the “Make our product 500 times bigger than it normally is and plonk it in the street” strategy. This isn’t a bad idea as when I see a 3 metre [...]

Net Worth: $2.6b Divorced father of two Leszek Czarnecki started Poland’s largest leasing business, Europejski Fundusz Leasingowy in 1991. He cashed in his stake for $280m and started building up a banking/insurance and real estate empire including the publically listed Getin Holdings. In 2002 he made public his intentions to secure a seat on a [...]

Been taking a break in Sopot the last week or so, lots of stories coming this week. Stay tuned!

This crazy looking building is situated in Sopot, at Bohaterów Monte Cassino Street. The architecture of the  building is based on drawings by Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg. There is also unusual roof covered with sheet metal with enamel roof tiles coloured with green shades, see blue and Parishian blue, which gives the illusion [...]

The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw is the tallest building in Poland, the seventh tallest building in the European Union, and the world’s 187th tallest building. The building was originally known as the Joseph Stalin Palace of Culture and Science, but in the wake of destalinization the dedication was revoked. As the city’s [...]

Those in the UK may of noticed more and more supermarkets and local stores stocking Polish food, Tesco for example often have a Polish section, especially in the larger towns/cities where you can get Polish branded gherkins, juice, soup etc. I’ve also noticed more bars in the UK stocking Polish beer, it’s quite amusing to [...]