Destinations

Hotel from Hell | Vitali Vitaliev | Poland, Baltic Coast, Gdansk

The hotel was just a five-minute walk from the station. ‘Lido. Restaurant - NightClub’ ran a bright pink sign on its roof. Two burly security guards with square shoulders and broken noses blocked my way

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The Polish Coast | Vijai Maheshwari | Poland, Baltic Coast, Gdansk

Sopot is fast gaining a reputation as a 'Little Ibiza‘ with its house clubs, stunning women and raucous parties

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Gdansk | Neville Walker | Poland, Baltic Coast, Gdansk

The guidebooks tie themselves in knots trying to unlock the conundrum of this unique city

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May Day Parody | Rory MacLean | Poland, Eastern Poland, Warsaw

In 1989 I began to write a sensible book on eastern Europe. Then a revolution tore down the Berlin Wall. Fifty years of totalitarianism - first under fascism and then communism - ended almost overnight

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Warsaw: The View From a Stalinist Skyscraper | Neville Walker | Poland, Eastern Poland, Warsaw

A little to the north the Old Town stands on the river’s banks, a huddle of red-tiled rooftops on a more intimate scale than the modern city.

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LBJs of Poland | Sarah Anderson | Poland, Eastern Poland, Warsaw

Many of the best ‘birding’ sites were in relatively ugly locations – by pumping stations or railway lines and I soon realized that the locality was immaterial to my fellow twitchers

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Krakow | Dea Birkett | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

Krakow may be Poland's second city in terms of size, but in things spiritual, artistic, and cultural it's indisputably number one. No other city has so many historic monuments, or such a vast collection of works of art

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Touring the Holocaust sites of Poland | Nigel Tisdall | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

It sounded like a holiday in Hell. Seven days touring some of the most harrowing Holocaust sites in Poland - Treblinka, Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto

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Krakow | John Hatt | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

Krakow is the most beautiful city in Poland, and one of the most unspoiled cities in Europe. Towards the end of the last war the Germans intended to destroy it, but the Soviet army arrived just in time, and as a result it remains almost unblemished.

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Café life in Krakow | Isabella Tree | Poland, Krakow, Krakow

The enduring legacy of Krakow’s extraordinary capacity for survival, its tradition of stoical underground resistance and socio-political camaraderie, is a burgeoning café culture of steamy windows and smoke-filled cellars. This is a city where people still talk for hours; where the din of conversation rises exuberantly above the sound of musak and the rustle of newspapers.

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