Great bit of press

http://www.dz.com.pl/?tekst,2818,powieksz

Here's a rough English translation...

How English People See Us

Katowice: Where was Katowice when God was dishing out the looks? Bill Bryson once wrote of the English town of Bradford, ‘its role in life is to make every place in the world look better in comparison’.

Bryson obviously have never been to Katowice. - this is the way how free of charge, English language, 74 pages guide, published by In your pocket starts. Author of it is Alex Webber who starts the story about Katowice in a perverse way and with an English sense of humour and finish noticing that the town is not beautiful but obviously fascinating.

How English man see Katowice? - There is nothing to hide that town you are in looks pretty unhealthy - he writes.

Tourist standing in the middle of the rynek and trying to find the Rynek, Mariacka is one of the ugliest streets in the city. But Katowice is the only one town in the world that you may live in stars or corns and where Martians left something.
Fans of Steven Spielberg’s 1977 blockbuster Close Encounters of the Third Kind will be delighted to learn that some clever clogs with a smashing sense of humour has installed a system that plays a variation of the classic five-note alien encounter tune from the film whenever the building’s lights go on. - he is delighted
Sometimes there is more to tourism than exploring medieval crypts and cobbled courtyards. And here’s the evidence; where else are you going to find Flying Saucers, museums dedicated to sewage, prototype housing schemes, communist masterpieces.

If you’re wanting to explore a completely bizarre, unexplored, and some would say unexplainable, corner of Poland, then you’ve hit the bullseye. - explains the author
Katowice are not the first city that has such as guide. In the whole Europe there is 50 published. In Poland cities that have such a guide are Threecity or Krakow (here 53 number is published already). Beside the fact that on the cover there is a Katowice’s emblem, workers of city council didn’t move a finger to do the guide but they like the text.

This kind of city is not charming on the first sight but it can surprise in very positive way. - claims Martin Stańczyk from Promotion and Information Department of City Council. - we know foreign tourists like the guide.

In the first issue that was published in November last year Stadion Śląski was described, in Second - Spodek, in third postindustrial monuments Nikiszowiec nad Giszowiec.

Webber is a native English and how publishing house claim he is very experienced writer. He describe 18 cities in Poland.

Before he starts writing he travels to each city he describes. In each venue he drinks at list glass of wine. The other job is done by researchers - says Karolina Montygierd-Łojbo.

Guide can be picked up from Tourist Information or from hotels. And even though there are other Guides for foreigners (in Tourist Information Centre there are three more English language guides published by city) they are far behind the freedom of style of In your pocket. They are stereotype and boring. We can find in them just little bit of history and few important addresses.