Once in a while a very interesting phenomenon occurs in Poland. Let’s call it the Rob Gronkowski Effect. Someone with a last name ending in ‘ski’ will pop up on the world stage and the Polish media will go into a twitter. The genealogical libraries will be busted open, the parish books dusted off and…
As I sit here eating my pierogi and sipping some czarna żubrówka (I’m not joking), I thought it might be an appropriate time to write a few words about Polish Vodka. If you’ve got no idea what czarna żubrówka is, then you probably don’t know too much about Poland’s national drink. Let me…
A little over 10 years ago, 52,254 Australian residents declared they were born in Poland. Yup. 0.26% of the Australian population was born in the land of white and red. As of 2011, an extra 170,500 Australians say that they have a Polish parent and speak Polish at home. That’s just under a quarter of…
A lot of people seem to think that Europe ends at the Eastern border of Germany. Australians think Europe is the UK, Spain, France and Germany, the 3 countries up North, Pizza-land, Greece and then Russia. Even before knowing my girlfriend, I knew where Poland was. Granted, I had not much of an idea of its…