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Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop.<\/p>\n

Travel writer Ben Aitken moved to Poland in 2016 to understand why the Poles were leaving.<\/p>\n

He booked the cheapest flight he could find, to a place he had never heard of \u2013 Poznan.<\/p>\n

This candid, funny and offbeat book is the account of his year in Poland, as an unlikely immigrant.<\/p>\n

Between peeling potatoes and boning fish, Ben spent time on the road travelling the country.<\/p>\n

He missed the bus to Auschwitz; stayed with a dozen nuns near Krakow; was offered a job by a Eurosceptic farmer and went to Gdansk to learn how Solidarity rose and communism fell.<\/p>\n

This is a bittersweet portrait of an unsung country, challenging stereotypes that Poland is a grey, ex-soviet land, and revealing a diverse country, rightfully proud of its colorful identity.<\/p>\n

A Chip Shop in Pozna\u0144: My Unlikely Year in Poland
<\/b>By Ben Aitken
Published by Icon Books
Publication date: July 2019
ISBN: 978-1785785580
Order online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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