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Contributors to this issue: Katy Carr, Patrycja Furca, Marek Kalisiński, M. Kościelniak, Marcin Nalepka, Konrad Rogoziński (Odkryj Beskid Sądecki), Kamila Rosińska, Claudia Schaffhausen, Grzegorz Ślęczek, Magdalena Tomaszewska-Bolalek, Janusz Wańczyk. As always, our special BIG thanks to Kasia Śpiewankiewicz – graphic editor @britanniaweb.co.uk and Amber Acosta for your patience and support. Thank You. If you would like to support or cooperate with our magazine please contact us via: info@lovepoland.org

Dear Readers,
Summer came, beautiful and hot in Poland, but it was not an easy time to work on the next edition of the magazine. Some of you noticed that it appeared later than usual. This was probably due to the fact of the travel restrictions, we did not know how to approach the topic of travelling to our country. I know the arrival may be difficult for many, especially if you do not have vaccinations. However, we will show you a few beautiful places, hoping that there will come a time when traveling again will be associated with pleasure and not stress resulting from uncertainty and resurrections.
We invite you to the Polish seaside to the beautiful Świnoujscie and to get to know old houses and palaces, mainly in Pomerania. We hope that the cooperation with Claudia will result in more interesting materials on this subject. As always, we recommend the photos and text of Marek Kalisiński, dedicated to Konik Polski.
You should also go and discover Rytro in the photographs of Janusz Wańczyk. Of course, there are more beautiful photos in the Magazine – for example, photos of castles in the background of the Tatra Mountains made by Marcin, and for active recreation lovers, we encourage you to go on bicycle trips in the Beskid Sadecki.

Dear Readers,

And so the spring has come again. Disliked by some as in Poland it tends to be often cool till May while adored by the others.However, before we move on to more spring topics, we invite you to read the conversation with probably the most famous Slav and Slavic warrior in Poland, i.e. with Igor Górewicz. It is a fascinating journey into the past, and since Igor’s knowledge is immense, his stories will be extremely interesting, not only for history lovers. As usual, the whole is illustrated by already well-known Marek Kalisiński.
From more spring themes, this time we recommend trips to Roztocze and cycling adventures in southern Poland.
We especially want to draw your attention to the photographs by Marcin Gądek in the article “Churches from heaven”. As Marcin is also a priest, his stories and photographs have an additional, slightly deeper dimension.
Also, get to know the city that we haven’t presented yet – that is Opole. Perhaps slightly off the beaten track of the most frequent hikes, it will be an interesting proposition for music lovers. Opole is called the capital of Polish song.
There will be, as usual at this time of the year, Easter accents, both culinary (with a recipe for Sękacz) and visual – we are presenting once again the photographs by Kamila Rosińska – as well as her two new stories for children.

Contributors to this issue:

Aga Blue, Krystian Kiwacz, Łukasz Łukasik, Magdalena Piasecka, Michał Piorun, Konrad Rogozinski, Kamila Rosińska, Magdalena Sarat, Dariusz Sirko, Katarzyna Skóra, Łukasz Sowiński, Włodzimierz Stachoń and Magdalena Tomaszewska-Bolałek (kuchniokracja / hanami).

As always: our special BIG thanks to Kasia Śpiewankiewicz – graphic editor @britanniaweb.co.uk and Amber Acosta for your patience and support. Thank You.

If you would like to support or cooperate with our magazine please contact us via: info@lovepoland.org

Dear Readers,

Lots of us can say that it has been a strange year, maybe even a bad one. Probably, for many of us, it was so on a private level, and certainly it was a difficult year for the tourism industry. By publishing our magazine, however, we hope that this difficult time will soon pass and we will be able to enjoy traveling again. For me, it was a difficult year at times; like many of you, I spent too much time at home, which just drained my energy. However, we managed to visit the Low Beskid and everything indicates that we will settle there permanently. And who knows? We might also be able to host you there.

As befits the winter issue of the magazine, we encourage you to get to know and visit various parts of Poland. We show you round the most famous places, such as Gdańsk or the Tatras (in Łukasz’ beautiful photographs), but we also encourage you to get to know the less known ones, such as Tylicz or Ochodzita or the Herbst Museum in Łódź.

As usual, we devote a lot of space to Polish nature. This time in two articles: Magda and Łukasz take you on the Biebrza, and Włodzimierz Stachoń invites you to get to know wild birds. There must be also something about Christmas traditions. As always, Kasia Skóra will tell about many of them – but she won’t be the only one. Get to know some secrets of Polish Christmas cuisine, including those described by Magdalena Tomaszewska-Bolałek. And almost at the end, we have for you a beautiful, in our opinion, photo gallery by Kamila – kept in a very festive mood.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Good New Year.

Contributors to this issue: Krzysztof Borgieł, Jarosław Fiedor, Krystian Kiwacz, Ania Olesińska, Michał Piorun, Alexandra Rosiek, Maciej Sankowski – Poznańskie Muzeum Pyry, Dariusz Sirko and Azymut- Drukarnia Cyfrowa, Katarzyna Skóra, Łukasz Sowiński, Włodzimierz Stachoń, Agnieszka Suchy, Magdalena Tomaszewska-Bolałek (kuchniokracja / hanami) and Janusz Wańczyk.

Our special thanks to: Gmina Sękowa and the the commune head mgr inż. Małgorzata Małuch as well as Jacek Pięta Sękowa- Municipal Office, for a warm welcome and cooperation.
Our special BIG thanks to Amber Acosta for your patience and support. Thank You.

If you would like to support or cooperate with our magazine please contact us via: info@lovepoland.org

Dear Readers,

Once again, we invite you to visit Poland in the autumn season. I must admit that this is probably my favourite time of the year. The sun still shines beautifully and the landscape is filled with colours. This fullness of colours can be perhaps best admired in the southern part of Poland so, in the first place, we invite you there. Of course, we can’t miss other places in Poland that we will encourage you to visit as well. So, let’s start our adventure from visiting the mountains of Beskid Sądecki and the stories of Janusz Wańczyk, already familiar to you. Right after that, make a trip to the Low Beskids – probably the most ‘wild’ and peaceful part of our country. We are going to show it to you more often as it will be our future place on earth where we will settle down. From the vicinity of Gorlice, we invite you to see a photo report from the autumn sheep grazing (most of the photos were taken in the commune of Sękowa by Krystian Kiwacz). In the further part of the magazine, learn about the re-enactment of the greatest battle during World War I, which took place in Poland. This re-enactment is organised in Sękowa. As usual, we cannot miss the beautiful Polish nature – see photos by Włodzimierz Stachoń from the Dunajec River Valley. We have never written about one of the most tragic places in Polish land – the Nazi death camp Auschwitz (Oświęcim). We invited an inhabitant of Oświęcim to tell his story. We wanted a story about this town as a ‘living’ place. Today, Oświęcim wants to be perceived as a city of peace and reconciliation. It is impossible to describe all the content and photos in such a short introduction, but we encourage you to read the rest of the magazine.

Dear Readers,

We invite you to another, summer issue of the Magazine. We finished preparing it at the beginning of June, so well before the beginning of the high tourist season. However, due to the prevailing pandemic conditions, we encourage you to check information regarding travelling to Poland (also on our social sites). This time we start with a special length reportage by Marek Kalisiński: The Centre of Slavs and Vikings – Wolin, Jomsborg, Vineta. Staying in northern Poland, we encourage you to visit the Wolin National Park – and a little further, in Masuria – the war quarters of the Wolf’s Lair. As always, we could not miss a visit to Polish cities – this time it will be medieval Toruń, beautiful Muszyna in Konrad Rogozinski’s photography and a bit less known, but still worth visiting Chęciny with the text and photographs of Michał Piorun.
And there are the conversations that we consider pretty special – with a windmill enthusiast Wiesław Szkopek and with two artists: Arkadiusz Andrejkow in the text Silent Memorial and with Sasha Nazim, now a Cracovian, a painter and a creator of photography documenting Kraków and its life. For literature and film enthusiasts, we recommend visiting places related to the famous series The Witcher based on books by Andrzej Sapkowski. Marcin Nowak will take you to these places. As usual, we devote some time to photographs associated with Polish nature – these time, these will be, beautiful in their simplicity, photos by Rafał Bojanowski. Kasia Skóra – as our regular guide to Polish traditions – will tell you about the customs associated with the birth of a child. After this interesting reading, Karolina and Konrad will invite you to Czorsztyn for slightly crazy adventures.  August is also another anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. This time, we offer you to learn about its history  through a discussion about the book Faith of a Little Insurgent by Wendell Speer. Of course, in the magazine you will find many other topics, including another recipe of Polish cuisine. Don’t forget to check what one of our partner 2Poland, has to offer. Feel free to check all of that on your own!

Contributors to this issue: Arkadiusz Andrejkow, Dominika Bednarczyk, Rafał Bojanowski, Konrad Janik, Marek Kalisiński, Sasha Nazim, Marcin Nowak, Michał Piorun, Marta Papierowska, Konrad Rogoziński, Jerzy Rajecki, Przemysław Sękowski, Katarzyna Skóra, Wendell Speer and Wiesław Szkopek.

It’s getting warm again! Hiking trips no longer require great preparations to make sure we will be warm. Hence, we are inviting you to some interesting places in Poland. We start the journey with searching for Wroclaw Dwarfs, and then move to one of the youngest, but with numerous historic links, the city of Gdynia. I also encourage you to read the interview with Aleksander Smaga, an architect involved in commemorating our history.
The magazine must not miss trips related to nature. This time, we are inviting you to two national parks. First, to Magura (with an additional text by Katarzyna Skora) and then to the Barycz Valley Park located in the opposite corner (it may be a good idea to spend time in western Poland – right after visiting Wrocław).
For our part, we recommend a trip to a place not often reached buy the tourists coming from abroad – namely the monastery in Wigry – located somewhere far in the eastern borderland of Poland. For those who prefer rather mountain expeditions combined with relaxation in a climatic small town, we have a text about Krynica – located on the edge of the Beskid Sadecki (which, the chances are, may be our future home).
In the Magazine we always try to devote a lot place to tradition: this time, of course, it will be Easter and a text devoted to a ‘Śmigus’, as well as a bit more serious one associated with the pilgrimage to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. Closer to the summer period, we would like to invite you to participate in Pentecost and Midsummer Night celebrations – it will be a journey to the east again.
In this issue, we have also prepared a special map for you, regarding the trips with a dog. Many of you probably take your pet on vacation, so let’s have a look where, in Polish National Parks, your dog can accompany you.

We wish you a Happy Easter with a  piece of sweet, shortcrust mazurek.

Contributors to this issue: Anna Adamska, Paweł Budzik, Bartosz Dubiel, Zuzanna Długosz, Konrad Rogoziński, Anna Olesińska, Jerzy Rajecki, Marek Sałatowski, Alexander Smaga, Olga Śpiewankiewicz, Katarzyna Skóra, Radosław Sikora, Łukasz Sowiński and Jakub Zawadziński.
Additionally: thanks to Znak Publishing House for cooperation on this issue. 

Contributors to this issue:

Anna Adamska, Ania Olesińska, Kamila Rosińska, Katarzyna Skóra, Bernadett Urbanovics, Max Max Danilevsky, Daniel Franek, Krystian Kiwacz, Stanisław Magiera, Kazimierz Nóżka, Przemysław Sękowski, Adam Pachura (Telewizja Sudecka), Łukasz Sowiński, Jakub Zawadziński.

Happy Christmas to all of you.

As always a big thanks to Kasia Śpiewankiewicz graphic editor @britanniaweb.co.uk for the support. Thank You.

If you would like to support or cooperate with our magazine please contact us via: info@lovepoland.org

Dear Readers,
Autumn is the season when warm air slowly fills up with moisture and the smell of falling leaves. The  time of colours, nostalgia and the slowing down pace of life – especially in nature. It is also time for those who, looking for an escape from the hustle and bustle,  go on trips to places  which  typically crowded in summer, in autumn  offer rest in  peace and quiet.
In this issue of the Magazine, we invite you to several sentimental journeys. We start with a trip to Tyniec Abbey, just minutes away from Kraków. Immediately afterwards, we suggest moving to somewhat quieter parts of Poland, first to the east of the country, where Agnieszka Gromek will tell us about autumn. And then a short trip to one of probably the most romantic small Polish towns, i.e. to Kazimierz on the Vistula River.
The main part of this issue is devoted to the region of Kielce. Piotr Michalec talks about its colours and nooks and crannies.  I especially recommend his photographs. Kamil Paluszek in turn will  talk about spiritual culture – taking us into the world of forgotten Orthodox churches.
In this issue I would  also like to recommend a short text by Professor Marceli Tureczek about a little-known place in Poland, somewhere in its western corners. The article is dedicated to the unique statue of the wolf.  It’s probably a tradition that Janusz Wańczyk’s photographs appear in most of our magazines. This time, we suggest you read his new book about his beloved Sącz land. Another tradition seems to be  the presence of Mikołaj Gospodarek, an avid traveller and photographer. This time his story about Kashubia. However, we are particularly proud of the presentation of the Czorsztyn region. For me, it is also a nostalgic journey, as I remember this area from expeditions when there was no big lake there. Once again, I would like to thank Aneta Markus and Łukasz Lisiecki for help in creating the article. And finally, a bit of reflection on our cultural heritage in the text about Orava by Ania Olesińska with the pictures by Łukasz Sowiński. Our portrait master, Marek Kalisiński, will show you his reportage from the Battle of Grunwald re-enactment. The list is by no means complete… enjoy your reading! and…don’t forget to go to Wrocław 🙂 – thanks to Anna Adamska.

Probably everyone loves summer. This is the most beautiful season and Poland is not an exception here. This time we would like to invite you to discover almost the full range of what our country has to offer: from north to south. We invite you to the Polish coast and especially to the Hel Peninsula. You can see its charm from a less known perspective – namely – from a bird’s eye view. Let’s then go south on an expedition to the Polish Tatra Mountains, and those who want to discover a bit more, may feel encouraged to go for a trip to Orava or to the Poprad Valley. Of course, you can always relax from the hardships of walking, strolling in the evening around beautiful Krakow.
In Poland you will find almost everything, including places that will allow you to move back into distant past times – even a thousand years back. For those who like such trips we have an invitation to Biskupin or old castles in the south of Poland. In our Magazine, we also keep presenting Polish traditions – this time we encourage you to learn about the customs associated with Corpus Christi Day in Łowicz. We surely have something for culture lovers as well: The Jagiellonian Fair in Lublin. See you in summer in Poland, over a serving of pierogi with cherries!

And so, the long-awaited spring has come.  This season in Poland can be described using the old saying: “Kwiecień plecień poprzeplata, trochę zimy trochę lata”. Spring is the time when nature awakens to life and thousands of birds visit Poland. Małgorzata Pawelczyk will talk about it in her story about the Biebrza and Narew rivers. In this issue, we would like to invite you to the region, which is maybe less known, but offering great rest in silence, combined with the opportunity to learn about the Polish tradition and culture, i.e. Kurpie. Bogdan Białczak will guide us around. By the way, if you choose a slightly different route, coming to Poland by car, maybe it is worth visiting the cross – border city of Szczecin? Damian Róż invites you there. For history lovers, we recommend the conversations with Radosław Sikora (a historian and an expert in Polish Hussars) and Marek Kalasiński – a photographer. It is also worth taking a look at Poland from above, if only to see Krakow from a less known perspective, or to visit less-known places, nevertheless attractive and related to the history of Poland – all this in the conversation with Radosław Kowal.

You will also visit, guided by Mikołaj Gospodarek, the Bears’ Cave. In this issue, you will also find lots of cultural information and some related to Polish traditions, shown e.g. in the photographs by Łukasz Sowiński.

Winter, although often associated with cold, is one of the most beautiful seasons. In Poland, as in many parts of the world, the climate is changing and there is less and less snow every year, however, in many parts of our country it is still enough. We invite you for a journey through Poland dressed up in a winter robe. Visit the eastern regions with famous wisents – European bisons, get to know the wild birds that you can meet with us and, above all, go to the mountains: for a long winter wander, to see their natural beauty or to meet wild Polish horses. And when you are tired, come for a cup of warm tea to Krakow, Zakopane or Warsaw. There, you can feel festive atmosphere. And if you want to get to know our traditions, visit the Open-air Museum in Sierpc or try to search among the inhabitants of Zakopane, for at least one of the strong highland ladies. However, if you stay at home and read only our Magazine, you will still have the opportunity to get to know all these places thanks to a great pictures.

Welcome to the autumn issue of the magazine. As in the previous editions, we show you Poland through beautiful photos, hoping that it will encourage you to further search and visiting our country. On November 11th, Poland will celebrate 100th anniversary of Independence. For this reason, Professor Marceli Tureczek prepared a special anniversary article focusing on the main points of this historic event. We hope you will celebrate with us. As always, we encourage you to get to know and visit different parts of Poland. Marcin Tarkowski will take you on a trip to Lublin – charming, full of tradition city in Eastern Poland. We also encourage you to read a conversation with Wojciech Bytner who takes photos of Masuria – the land of thousands of lakes. And then, together with Włodzimierz Stachoń, we will move to Sub Carpathian region to discover the beauty of wild nature. Similarly, we cannot ignore the photographs of Mikołaj Gospodarek, who shows full of nostalgia Masovia region. It is not possible to list all the recommended texts and photographs In the short introduction, so let discover them with us.

This season of the year encourages us to leave our homes, travel, discover and make new friends. In Poland, summer is beautiful and the possibilities of discovering and exploring the landscapes are almost limitless: from the Baltic Sea to the picturesque Tatra and wild Bieszczady Mountains. We invite you to get to know different parts of Poland, including those less known.  We start our journey with the Wieliczka Salt Mine – known probably to everyone and after a while we move to Wrocław, recognised as the best course of expeditions in Europe. While in Wrocław, you will be guided by Janusz Krzeszowski, a local photographer. In this issue, we devote a lot of space to the project Fall in Love with Poland at Night, showing different places, sometimes less known to foreign tourists (e.g. Tarnow, Sucha Beskidzka, Bydgoszcz or Zielona Gora). Summer in Poland is also a time for people with religious sensitivity to make pilgrimages to the places of worship. This time we invite you to St. Anne Mountain that will be presented to us by Błażej Duk, a photographer and the author of the website devoted to this sacred place.

Welcome to the spring edition of the magazine. As in previous editions, we show you Poland through beautiful photographs, hoping to encourage you to search on your own and visit our country. The motto of this number is ‘Go East’. Eastern Poland is definitely less known and popular among tourists, probably due to the further distance from the most popular tourist centres. However, it has much to offer, especially for those who seek peace, silence and communing with nature. We devoted two important texts to the East. The first of them, ‘Magic of Podlasie’, is a conversation with Jerzy Rajecki, an enthusiast and a real institution when it comes to photographs and documentation of this region. Another article is ‘Holy Mount Grabarka’ with an excellent text by Alicja Marciniak-Nowak. For me personally, as for an editor of the magazine, the conversation with Franciszek Kupczyk and his photographs of monks from the Camaldolese Assembly are of particular importance.

  This is our second issue, but working on it was a source of great satisfaction. It is also a special Christmas issue. We encourage you to read the article devoted to portraits of Polish highlanders by Bartłomiej Jurecki – that’s a fascinating story. We also recommend a conversation with Andrzej Dudek, a director of the Polish theatre in Limerick. A very interesting point of view at the fate of the Polish diaspora. In the issue you will also find a description of many traditions connected with Christmas in Poland, which is unique in many aspects. Of course, this is not all, as in this edition there are lots of other fascinating photographs and texts. Hereby, we would like to thank the authors of the photos for their openness and willingness to cooperate with our magazine. The time of Christmas is very special, also in Poland. On this occasion, we would like to wish you prosperity in life and a good New Year.

Welcome to the first issue of travel.lovePoland magazine. We have been running lovePoland.org profile over two years now and further development should be just a natural consequence of it. Let’s start with a new free online magazine. we hope that it will be an interesting source of information about our country, especially for our friends from abroad. We would like the beauty of Poland to be presented through photographs to encourage you to get to know Poland better and to become an inspiration for your own research. We are especially grateful to the authors of the photographs for their cooperation at the first edition. Meet their creative works of art. This is an inspirational experience. Enjoy your reading. Cheers!