Summer is approaching, so authorities think what to do, to make Polish cities more attractive for tourists. The greatest efforts can be seen in Warsaw. Capital of Poland prepares a lot of new attractions which let visitors to meet every corner of the city that is worth to see. Especially City Transport Management has a lot to offer. Water or retro trams and horse-drawn buses are only few among plenty of vehicles that make travelling around Warsaw easier and much more pleasant.

From the beginning of June Vistula becomes a great attraction, trough water trams and cruises from Warsaw to Serock by Zegrzynski Bay. During hot summer days there is nothing more pleasant than relaxing on the board of a gently swaying boat, listening sound of water and birds singing. Cruise by water tram stays about 2 hours, during which You can hear about the most interesting sights near the river from the audio guide, try some barbecue dishes and also listen to live music playing by on-board orchestra. If it's not enough for You, You can try another cruise, the longer one, which leads to Serock, small town with medieval architecture, placed by the bay. You will be able to marvel landscape park surrounding the town which contains amazing amount of unique birds and other fauna and flora species.

In the consciousness of many Europeans, Poland is still poor, communistic country, full of drunkards and car thieves. We had such periods in our history, when the situation in Poland wasn’t very well, so Poles also wasn’t nice. But we’re sure, that we already left behind those times and nowadays we are equal to other European nation. Unfortunately our past has created few stereotypes that are still believed. I’d like to introduce and comment most common of them.

Totally false! This stereotype appeared probably because of strange communistic system of work. In those days there was a proverb “If You stay or if You lay, 1000 zlotys You’ll be paid”. Nowadays You have to work to earn Your payment and because of high level of unemployment, Poles respect work very much.

Tragic Polish history of II World War created many prominent characters. One of the greatest of them is Irena Sendler, who saved over 2500 Jewish children from extermination in Nazi concentration camps. Because of her extraordinary courage she has been decorated with many awards and titles among which the most important is Righteous among the Nations giving by Jewish Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority - Yad Vashem.

Irena Sendler was born in 1910 in Warsaw. As a nurse and social worker, Irena Sandler was taking care about Jews in Warsaw ghetto during the II World War. She was helping especially children by smuggling them from ghetto and placing on substitute families and under the care of nuns. She was a member of Council of Aid Jews - Żegota.

Among the Polish people, who are known all over the world, one of the most important character for Polish history, especially for Polish independence is former president, laureate of Nobel prize - Lech Wałęsa.

Lech Wałęsa was born in 1943. In 1961 he has finished trade school and as an electrician, he has been working in National Engine Centre, where he became a member of trade union. He was one of the leaders of strike in his work place. In this time Polish workers was protesting against communistic regime. Wałęsa was committed in activity of Free Trade Unions and because of this, he was victimized by communistic services.

Who doesn’t know such masterpieces as Revolution Etude or Funeral March? Those two and many more supreme compositions has signed to piano music canons thank to the most famous Polish pianist and composer, Frederic Chopin.

Chopin was a representative of romantic music. He was born in 1810 in Żelazowa Wola. According to legend while he was being bear, his father, Nicolas, was playing violin. Probably it was the first sign, that Frederic will be connected with music for all his live and maybe that’s why he has become such genius.

Poland has diversified and rich offer of winter sports resorts. This short review of the best places for ski and snowboard amateurs consists basic, useful information about the most popular destinations in Polish mountains.

Have a good time!

During the upcoming weekend (from 31^th of July to 2^nd of August) for the fifteenth time you can experience one of the biggest open air festivals in Europe - “Przystanek Woodstock”. It's hard to imagine that only two scene scenes, a tent field and a few additional attractions will be available to thousands of visitors (in 2008 about 300.000! people attended).

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Poland is not the most popular travel destination worldwide, therefore not too many people know about it's beatiful spots and sights. I present 11 places, which you might want to consider visiting while going on a trip to Poland.

1.

 A Polish man married a Canadian girl after he had been in
 Canada a year or so and, although his English was far from
 perfect, they got on very well.  Until one day he rushed
 into a lawyer's office and asked him if he could arrange a
 divorce for him-"very quick".

PIEROGI

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