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Columns Loose Change 

Loose Change: The Miracle of Buses

August 28, 2014August 28, 2014 Jamie Stokes 1 Comment

I’m told the countryside has much to recommend it, and isn’t just there to put decent intervals between interesting places.

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Loose Change: Tram Hero

July 10, 2014July 10, 2014 Jamie Stokes 5 Comments

He’s out there, somewhere. Righting wrongs and protecting the weak. Roaming the streets of Krakow on the side of the

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Loose Change: The Sexy Shop

May 23, 2014 Jamie Stokes 2 Comments

I had high hopes for the Sexy Shop. Nestled comfortably in double-fronted premises of moderate size on ul. Tomasza, ‘sexy’

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Loose Change: The Polish Bird Flap

April 19, 2014 Jamie Stokes 0 Comments

There was great excitement on BBC Radio 4 last week, as far as excitement on Radio 4 goes, over a

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Loose Change: When Russians Were Hilarious

March 13, 2014May 18, 2014 Jamie Stokes 7 Comments

Remember the Winter Olympics? You must remember. It was about two weeks ago and that Polish woman who always wins

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Loose Change: Ice

February 16, 2014September 20, 2015 Jamie Stokes 2 Comments

If summer is the silly season for news, the middle of winter is the dead boring season. We get the same stories every year. Either everyone is wondering where the snow is, or snow is causing national chaos. Either everyone is moaning that Poland never gets anything at the Oscars…

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Loose Change: In a Band

January 2, 2014September 20, 2015 Jamie Stokes 0 Comments

It’s not that I really want to start a band, I just think it’s necessary – you’re nobody in this town unless you’re ‘in a band.’ At a party the other day, a former Miss Singapore and professor of nuclear physics with several books under her belt earned nothing but yawns until she said…

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Loose Change: Scarlett Johansson and the Three Bears

November 28, 2013September 20, 2015 Jamie Stokes 4 Comments

So here’s the thing, about a month ago, a Dutch student journalist wrote to me and asked if she could bring her group of Dutch student journalist friends to Poland and talk to me about the amazing success of the Krakow Post. Tabbing out of my email, I gazed across the city…

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Loose Change: Proud To Be…

October 21, 2013September 20, 2015 Jamie Stokes 4 Comments

I ‘m fascinated by the qualities nationalities ascribe to themselves – the super powers people assume themselves to have acquired by the simple expedient of being born to speakers of a particular language or within lines drawn on a map. We’re all guilty of it…

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Loose Change: The Deck Chair Menace

September 15, 2013September 20, 2015 Jamie Stokes 1 Comment

When did the deck chair become an acceptable form of seating? Thinking back to the early summer, which seems frighteningly recent, I don’t remember ever seeing one in the fragrant beer gardens of our fair city. Now, as the thoughts of alfresco drinkers turn…

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