“I want a kebab” – Adam Topolski. Come to Warsaw and eat kebabs? Yes please! A city for sure to give you some of the tastiest kebabs you will ever try. Really really really! A flashback to my twenties recently as Rafal Kowalczyk took me to a “kebab house to cure our hangovers” and suddenly Read more about Smaczne Środy: Indulging in the Tasty Menus of Kebab King, Warszawa[…]
“I’ll tell me ma when I go home, the boys won’t leave the girls alone” – Irish Folk Song (Belle of Belfast City). “Work is the curse of the drinking classes” – Oscar Wilde. So 2017 saw me witness my first ever St. Patrick’s Day in Poland. Yes, it may be hard to believe Read more about Piątkowe Picie: Celebrating Dzień Świętego Patryka, St. Patrick’s Day at Irlandzki Pub, Warsaw[…]
Wacaday republics on the brain, a flair for backpacking to countries that don’t exist and a pure fire passion for Northern Irish football were the golden love affairs that I cannon-balled my tourist journey with. I interwined travel with football with as many references to being Northern Irish as the Ulster Fry could come up Read more about Śmieszne Historie o Piłce Nożnej w Polsce: On the Kazimierz Deyna Pilgrimage Tour in Starogard Gdański, Poland’s “George Best”[…]
“This; a present from Stalin’s Reign, but you have your life again” – Jonny Blair. Most people reading this travel blog will know me as a travel writer who lives in Poland (or for longer term readers, possibly from the now “dead as a donut”, ill-fated Don’t Stop Living), or simply as someone who writes Read more about Dziwaczne Odkrycia: My Song, “You Have Your Life (Warszawa Skies)”[…]
My latest “tasty Wednesday” was a trip to the trendy Krowarzywa restaurant in Warszawa, Poland’s capital city. This restaurant was recommended to me by Magdalena from Oki Doki Hostel and off I went. As a meat eater, you might be surprised that I would decide to randomly try vegan food but I did. Krowarzywa is Read more about Smaczne Środy: “Tygodnia – Burger of the Week” at Krowarzywa, Warszawa[…]
My return to the gaping Polish capital city of Warsaw in December 2016 saw me reunited with one of my most visited cities (visit number 6 and counting) and with a stay in one of my favourite hotel brands from recent years – Ibis. I booked into the Ibis Warszawa Centrum. I know what to Read more about Hotel Review: My Winter Stay at The Hotel Ibis Warszawa Centrum[…]
As I backpacked through Polish cities down the years, I enjoyed staying in hostels, normally sharing dorm rooms and enjoying the overall lifestyle of it. I have been to Warsaw about 6 times now and my favourite hostel in the city is the Oki Doki Hostel. The Oki Doki Hostel is named among the “Europe’s Famous Read more about Hostel Review: Oki Doki Hostel, Warsaw[…]