Choose English croissant or goats programmes, check dates and ticket categories, and understand the staircase and participation before booking.
Tea is Poland default hot drink: black, with lemon, often in a glass. How herbata works at home, at work and in tea houses, plus what the 2026 market data says.
Poland's market halls are where the country really shops for food. The best halls in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw and Gdansk, and how to buy like a local.
Poland's goose season opens on St Martin's Day. The Gęsina na św. Marcina restaurant campaign runs 11-29 November 2026 - the legend, dishes and how to join.
Why Poles buy live carp in December, what a Wigilia carp costs (14-70 zł/kg), where to buy it, the bathtub custom and the welfare rules sellers must follow.
Tłusty Czwartek falls on 4 February 2027. Why Poles eat around 100 million pączki that day, what faworki are, where the custom comes from, and how to join in.
Poland's eastern surprise: the Versailles of Podlasie, kartacze and sękacz, the birthplace of Esperanto, and marshes, mosques and bison on the doorstep.
Twelve meat-free dishes, the opłatek wafer, the first star and a carp with a communist past: Poland's Christmas Eve explained, with the new day off.
The rogal świętomarciński of Poznań: an EU-protected poppy-seed croissant eaten on 11 November, its rules and how to spot a genuine one.
