Early next year, Poland will see the long awaited opening of a museum showcasing the history, culture and suffering of its minority Jewish community, which has today all but vanished from the country.

Poland’s narrowest home has just opened in its capital Warsaw, billing itself as an ‘artistic installation’ that will serve as a second home for the city’s sometime resident, Israeli writer and artist Edgar Keret.

Today all Poland celebrates the 32nd Anniversary of August Agreements, the 1980 declaration of Poland’s emergence as the first independent trade union in the former communist bloc. President Bronislaw Komorowski will reportedly be on hand to present awards to some 40 activists of the Solidarity Trade Union.

Countries in Eastern Europe are awash with odd sights; some can be explained by the region’s turbulent history, some can be explained by the human imagination and some just can’t be satisfactorily explained at all.

Poland is planning on using the newly acquired recognition given by co-organizing the Euro 2012 sports even to boost a quite profitable tourism segment – health and medical services.

According to TravelSuermarket, England qualification into the Euro 2012’s quarter finals causes an incredible uplift in flights to Ukraine and Poland.

Football fans visiting Poland for the Euro 2012, be sure to stuff a bit of extra cash in your luggage; with thousands of football fans expected to visit the country in order to take in one or more of the 15 matches to be hosted there, hotels are responding by raising rates exorbitantly.

Eastern Europe is going to be the place to be seen this summer! There are some amazing festivals taking place and the following are just a short selection.

JetBlue Airways and LOT Polish Airlines have announced a new partnership that will allow fliers to book and connect flights via the companys’ home airports.

Super 8’s parent company (Wyndham Hotel Group) has embarked on creating an European footprint. One of the very first countries they are focusing on is Poland.