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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.

Artist brings Modlin fortress back to life with stunning murals depicting the past

An artist whose work went viral last year after he transferred the urban concept of street art to the Polish countryside is back in the news after revealing the fruits of his latest endeavour at the historic Modlin Fortress.

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

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:

Opposition presents pandemic aid programme
Ruling Law and Justice continues to have highest voter support - poll
Belarus protests Enduring Soldiers commemoration in east Poland
Poland’s Świątek wins Adelaide International tennis tournament
PM presents National Recovery Plan

‘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.”

The Debrief
Spring is coming, and so are the storks!

Webber's World
Under-the-radar? No way. Just call Wrocław wonderful instead

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