In Poland we should be proud of many achievements. For example, advanced inventions which have changed the modern world, medical achievements, sportspeople, musicians... But it is not only modern things that we can be proud of. Today I would like to tell you about a place for which we have historical pride. Pionier cinema – one of the oldest nonstop functional cinemas in the world.

The picturesque and amazing history of Polish Jewry is branded with the Holocaust. In a few districts of Warsaw there are places which memorialise the terrible martial history of this nation: monuments, traces of Ghetto walls, Umschlagplatz, and the recently opened Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

You might know that Francuska Street is the main street of Saska Kępa, but did you know that Saska Kępa was not always called "Saska"? It used to be Kępa Wiślana because it was an island on the river, then it was Kępa Solecka because it belonged to Solec Village, and then Kawcza and Holenderska. It came to be called Saska because August III Sas discovered the place and was fond of having picnics there.

Every mum, both those who work and those who stay at home with their children, sometimes need breathing space. In every job sameness and daily challenges wear away at our inclination to be active. Although I love my family to death, I sometimes need to get away from hearing “muuuuuum” every 5 seconds, from thinking about dinner, or remembering about extra lessons and packed lunches for my child.

There are a lot of amazing places in Warsaw. Some of them are beautiful or historical and others are important because they belong to us and make us feel sentimental. Maybe something important to us happened in the neighbourhood. Yet other places are fascinating for a different reason. For me, one of the places which is interesting because of the past is the Swiss Valley in Warsaw.