Your Britishexpat.com travel correspondent – as if he didn’t have anything better to do between meetings and business trips – has embarked on a major new project for the travel pages on this site: a complete feature on Poland’s two capitals, Warsaw and Krakow. This project may lead us well into the year 2002, since for Hajo’s Encyclopædia of Warsaw I will have to review around thirty of my favourite bars, clubs, restaurants and hotels, let alone
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The Pan and the Pope
The title gives it away. Pope John Paul II, the city’s most prominent son, and Pan Tadeusz, protagonist of Adam Mickiewicz’s novel by the same title, are omnipresent in Krakow. You can hardly find a shop or café without the likeness of the pope, and Pan Tadeusz is not only available in handfuls of editions at every one of the many bookstores, but is also the name of half a dozen pubs. And indeed
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