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A year in travel: Webber picks out the best (and worst) from his journeys around Poland

As the curtain falls on 2022, TFN’s Alex Webber takes a personal look back at his travel highlights of the year… Alex Webber/TFN, Grzegorz Michałowski/PAP, Rafał Guz/PAP

As the curtain falls on 2022, TFN’s Alex Webber takes a personal look back at his travel highlights of the year…

Scrapyard releases ‘Mad Max style’ calendar to raise money for Ukrainian orphans

The annual calendar from Olmet, a recycling company from Tarnowskie Góry, is known as the Polish version of the world-famous Pirelli calendar produced each year by the Italian tire giant.

Wish you were here? With staycations becoming the new ‘new thing’ TFN takes a look at what Poland has to offer - and it’s a lot!

Whether it be lavish tented luxury, historic old towns, moody eccentric palaces, wild untamed forests or cool seaside vibes, Poland has them all.

Tree-mendous! Voting underway to find Poland’s best tree, based on looks, history and significance to culture

Won last year by a linden found towering over a picturesque roadside chapel in Dulcza Wielka near Rzeszów, this year has seen 16 trees shortlisted from a rollcall of nearly 150 nominees. TFN looks at some of this year’s favourites.

Top 5 articles:

  • Over 100,000 slaughtered with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wołyń massacre started 76 years ago today and lasted for two years
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
Culture | History | Life

How Warsaw was rebuilt using mountains of post-war rubble illustrated in fascinating new exhibition

The story, which is being told in the 70th year since rebuilding was officially completed, is an important one as perhaps no other city in history has had to handle, process and use as much rubble as Warsaw did in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The first report:

  • Polish-Korean consortium set up to produce K2 tanks in Poland
  • Polish farmers impacted by Ukrainian imports to get over EUR 210 mln
  • General government debt hits 49.3 percent of GDP at end-2022 says FinMin
  • Four countries join Poland in calling for limits on Ukraine grain
  • Consumer confidence at very low level, shows survey

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

The Debrief
Ham radio making a comeback in Poland
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