Yesterday evening I was at the party organised by Laura to welcome back to Warsaw the icon of the diplomatic pop-culture in Poland :), our good friend Oswaldo, the ex-consul of Peru.Actually I didn't recognise him for the first sight: since he returned to Peru an year ago, he lost 26 kilos of…

Today after work (and about 80 bloody visas) I went to the reception of the Irish Embassy organized for st. Patrick's day, which is their national holiday.The reception was as usual, including a speech by their minister of education who is just in Warsaw, with food (they had really very good hot…

Február 28-ig szabadságon vagyok a Fáraók Országában, addig sajna nélkülöznötök kell. Sürgős ügyekben keressétek a helyettesemet. :) Hamarosan jelentkezem a részletes élménybeszámolóval, várjatok türelemmel! *** Do 28-ego lutego będę przebywał na urlopie w Kraju…

Today in the Dips Club I met Jenny and she said she would leave Warsaw in January. She's going back to Sweden to work for the Swedish Parliament, leaving even the foreign service, at least for a while. For a time I'm slowly experiencing this gloomy aspect of a diplomat's life. Namely, that we're…