Krakow Chronicles: How To Quit Smoking And Drinking for the New Year
John Marshall | 4th February 2010

Krakow Chronicles: Poland In 2010
John Marshall | 5th January 2010
Well, it’s the New Year: traditionally the time for experts and specialists to make their well-informed and learned predictions. And I thought I’d have a go, too...

Why Don’t Polish Shops Ever Have Enough Change?
John Marshall | 3rd December 2009
John Marshall is a writer and teacher who has had the great fortune to live in Krakow for several years. Krakow’s been good to him and, he hopes, he’s been good to Krakow.

All Saints' Day
John Marshall | 5th November 2009
John Marshall is a writer and teacher who has had the great fortune to live in Krakow for several years. Krakow’s been good to him and, he hopes, he’s been good to Krakow.

Krakow Chronicles: Podgórze - A Walk on the Wild Side
John Marshall | 5th October 2009
John Marshall is a writer and teacher who has had the great fortune to live in Krakow for several years. Krakow’s been good to him and, he hopes, he’s been good to Krakow.

Krakow Chronicles: Customer Service
John Marshall | 3rd August 2009
The Cut-Out-And-Keep Guide To Modern Poland No. 2: Customer Service

Krakow Chronicles: The Security Guard
John Marshall | 2nd July 2009
The Cut-Out-And-Keep Guide To Modern Poland No. 1: The Security Guard

Rainbows And Wreaths
John Marshall | 2nd June 2009
John Marshall is a writer and teacher who has had the great fortune to live in Krakow for several years. Krakow’s been good to him and, he hopes, he’s been good to Krakow.

A Lot To Be Proud Of
John Marshall | 30th April 2009
John Marshall is a writer and teacher who has had the great fortune to live in Krakow for several years. Krakow's been good to him and, he hopes, he’s been good to Krakow.

Buying a Flat in Krakow: Part II
John Marshall | 1st September 2008
In the July issue of the Krakow Post, I set out my personal reasons for choosing to buy a flat in Krakow. What follows here are the experiences of a first-time property buyer in Poland.

Buying a Flat in Krakow: Part I
John Marshall | 2nd July 2008
Part one of a two-part guide on the joys and perils of real estate investment in Krakow

A Spring Constitutional
John Marshall | 4th May 2008
Living in a foreign country is an uncertain, frustrating, rewarding business. The longer you stay, the more you understand and come to like it, but the harder it becomes to leave.

Stand up, brothers, for International Men's Day!
John Marshall | 9th March 2008
Health warning: Failure to insert tongue firmly into cheek may result in sense of humour loss

Confessions of a Krakowian jogger
John Marshall | 28th February 2008
In the crisp winter morning, I warm up for my morning jog. It's a short jog: I'm 40 years old and out of condition. But the sun's shining and I'm feeling good, so off we go!

Time runs, and so does expat journo John Marshall
John Marshall | 21st February 2008
Time runs, as the Poles say and I've been in Poland two and a half years now. Not a lot of time, it's true, but long enough to have sussed a few things out.

An immigrant's thoughts on returning to Krakow
John Marshall | 15th February 2008
Beneath a full, crisp, Polish moon, I stepped onto the airport tarmac, glad to be back home, in Krakow.

Anyone for anglii pogoda?
John Marshall | 8th February 2008
You know those days when your brain is five seconds behind the rest of you and you never quite catch up? Well, I've been having a few of those lately.

Poland in vitro discussion continues
John Marshall | 8th February 2008
As reported in The Krakow Post (Dec. 8), Health Minister Ewa Kopacz had announced last November that the government would sponsor a plan to finance in vitro fertilization for infertile Polish couples currently unable to pay for the process.