As Chopin 2010 events continue across Poland, a UK company is offering an escorted music tour to Warsaw to celebrate the bicentenary of the famous composer’s birth. London-based Kirker Holidays has put together a six-day trip escorted by the pianist Andrew Biggs, as the polish capital hosts the Chopin & His Europe Festival in August. [...]

A Teutonic-themed tour to Poland and Russia is one of the showpiece holidays being offered by a company specialising in walking and trekking breaks. Ramblers Worldwide Holidays has designed the 15-day trip to allow visitors to take in the wonderful Polish capital of Warsaw, the beauty of the Bialowieza National Forest, the port of Gdansk, [...]

Although it’s becoming easier and cheaper to get to Poland by air, it’s not the only way to visit one of central Europe’s most popular countries. To really see the country up close and personal, coach holidays are proving to be one of the best ways to get to know Poland, its cities and wonderful [...]

Enjoy an Easter with a difference and a great Pine Sunday too, by helping one of the Lake District’s most colourful characters – Sammy the Squirrel – hunt for the treasured pine cones that he hid before going into hibernation! Sammy – mascot of iconic Lake District cruise company, Ullswater ‘Steamers’ – hid a stash [...]

The opening by Poland’s Culture Minister on Monday 1st March of the high-tech Frederic Chopin Museum in Warsaw began the start of celebrations to mark 200 years since the birth of the country’s best loved composer. Located in Warsaw’s revamped 17th century Ostrogski Palace, which is perched on a hill near the Vistula River, the [...]

The Polish capital of Warsaw will host the 14th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival later this month. The ever-popular two-week event gets underway on Sunday 21st March, running until Saturday 3rd April. Fourteen days will be dedicated to Beethoven and the wealth of classical music in the two centuries since his heyday, as Warsaw welcomes [...]

Chopin Year 2010 will signal a number of important cultural events in Poland. One of the key events the opening of a new museum dedicated to the life and works of Frederic Chopin in Warsaw. Work on renovating the old building which houses the museum first got underway in 2005. The institution dedicated to collecting [...]