Poland Travel Podcast with Kacper Nowak

society, culture, places, travel, documentary, education · EN-US

The Poland Travel Podcast follows a single host as he settles in one Polish city or region, learns its everyday rhythms, then moves somewhere connected to it. Poland's distinctiveness lies in its geography: a flat plain that invites movement, mountains along the southern border, and weather that ranges from snowy winters to thundery summers. Travelling here means paying attention to layers of history. The range covers Kraków and the medieval streets of the south, Warsaw's reconstructed centre, the industrial city of Łódź, and the lake district in the north-east. It also reaches Silesia with its coal-mining towns and the Białowieża Forest on the eastern border. These places are seldom treated as a checklist; each gets episodes that return to the same streets in different light. The show unfolds across a Polish year, so episodes move with the seasons: winter fog in Łódź, thaw in the Tatra foothills, summer storms on the plains. The host returns to places he has already v