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Winter

Man builds country’s first igloo in shape of a CAT and puts it on Airbnb for 500zł per night!

The cat igloo, or ‘Kitlloo’ as it’s called, took four days to build and is listed on Airbnb as a 1-bedroom accommodation with a private bathroom. Andrzej Strzała

Listed on Airbnb as a 1-room accommodation with private bathroom, the listing says: “Recommended especially for people with a good sleeping bag, no back problems and no more than 170 cm tall.”

Snow laughing matter! Is this year’s freeze worse than the ‘Winter of the Century’?

With arguments raging on social media over whether the current sub-zero temperatures are worse than previous years, TFN compares the situation today with the ‘worst winter on record’ – that of 1978/1979.

Don’t worry be frappe, Kraków officials tell locals as they sprinkle COFFEE on pathways to stop people slipping over

Inspired by an initiative started in Ukraine, so far 40 cafes around the city have answered the eco-friendly call to donate used coffee grounds. If effective the coffee grounds will be used on main paths around the city and could become a mainstay of the city’s strategy for maintaining the accessibility of Kraków’s parks in winter.

High as a kite! Kitesurfers take to the snow for a bit of winter fun

With lockdown restrictions seeing ski lifts closed, and with plunging temperatures making the sea a definite no,no, kitesurfers have moved to the fields.

Temperatures crash to -33 in north-east Poland

Temperatures fell to as low as minus 33 degrees Celcius in north-eastern Poland on Sunday night, as the country battles a bout of severe winter weather.

Sleeping in a winter wonder home! Kraków uni builds hibernation homes for hedgehogs

Around 18 metres long and 1.5 metres wide, the housing complex was designed to resemble a mini-version of the AGH University of Science and Technology’s building, so that, as the organisers put it, the hedgehogs “immediately feel that they live at AGH”.

Winter break for all Polish students from January 4-17

A regulation of the minister of education published in the Journal of Laws stipulates that winter holidays for all students during this school year will take place at the same time, from January 4 to January 17, immediately after the Christmas break.

Polish tourist organisations appeal to PM for assistance

Polish tourist organisations have appealed to the prime minister for measures to cushion the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their sector, which, they warned, is in a dramatic situation.

Kind-hearted hotel owner opens his doors to the homeless for the winter

Directed only at the “homeless and needy”, a symbolic price of just 1zł will cover one month’s stay at the Pergamin Old Town Apartments in Kraków.

Adventurer makes 700 km solo trek across Iceland in subzero temperatures

For Łukasz Supergan, crossing Iceland once on foot was not enough – he wanted to do it in winter, too.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

The first report:

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  • PM presents National Recovery Plan

Exclusive

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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