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Goodbye to all that: travel highlights from the year just gone

From polar bears and wild encounters to historic palaces and reborn castles, TFN looks at the destinations that saved the year from outright calamity. Alex Webber/Kalbar/TFN

From polar bear trails to revamped castles, Webber presents his top travel finds of 2020.

Who is Baśka the Bear?

Does the world-famous Wojtek now have competition as a bear fighting alonsigside Polish troops?

Webber unravels incredible story of a Bolshevik-fighting polar bear adopted by Polish battalion

​Whilst strolling around an old fort in Modlin, Webber encounters the little-known story of a Baśka Murmańska, a polar bear adopted by a Polish battalion that had been fighting the Bolsheviks in Northern Russia.​

Colourful outbreak of mural-osis transforms Warsaw district

Originally motivated by their ambition to provide the area with a visual identity, Bakcyl Studio’s large-scale art has now seen the district emerge as a legitimate rival to the capital’s Praga district as the city’s mural heartland.

The bear necessities! Lonely bear crosses border in search of food and love

The sighting is surprising because the last bear to be seen in the Białoweża forest was 2010 – and western Belarus does not have a significant bear population, suggesting that this bear may have travelled from as far as central or eastern Belarus.

Bearing all in the snow: video of a bear in winter becomes social media hit

Forester asks bear why it isn’t sleeping despite snow covering the mountains.

Poland’s WWII ‘soldier bear’ to be subject of new film from the creator of The Snowman

The film, which will take 30 animators a year to draw, is expected to premiere on the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day on 8 May 2020.

UN-BEAR-LIEVABLE: bear video goes viral!

A Facebook video of a close encounter between a Polish forester and a bear has sent the internet into meltdown. 

Top 5 articles:

  • 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
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
Life

Restaurants raise record breaking 300,000 PLN to help those in need

Despite the hardships faced by restaurants and cafes because of lockdown, the altruistic businesses donated 10 percent of their earnings to help feed underprivileged children in Poland and the developing world.

The first report:

  • Polish justice minister, top court head defy EU court ruling
  • Thirty-one Polish firms on list of Europe’s fastest-growing firms
  • Polish gov't has spent more than EUR 42.3 bln to save jobs - minister
  • Amendments to KRS legislation may infringe EU law - EU court
  • Epidemic does not impact VAT collection - press

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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