SPOTLIGHT ON
If Łódź wasn’t on your radar before, it soon will be. It’s shaking off its image as a drab, post-industrial city and making a virtue of its manufacturing past. Once-derelict red-brick textile factories are being repurposed, with their colossal interiors transformed into stylish hotels, galleries and new hangouts where you can sip bison-grass vodka cocktails and sample the latest craft beers. (Before you book your ticket, make sure to practise the city’s name a few times to avoid embarrassment at the other end: it sounds rather like ‘woodge’.)
Ryanair flies direct to Łodź from London Stansted and East Midlands