B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Ο αγώνας που πάντα κερδίζει το τυρί Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- Δύο ολοκαίνουργια ζώα, το καθένα στο μέγεθος ενός νυχιού Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Η μέρα που ένα αληθινό ζωύφιο χάλασε έναν υπολογιστή In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- Η γαρίδα με έναν ήλιο μέσα στη δαγκάνα της A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- Το σπίτι χωρισμένο ανάμεσα σε δύο χώρες In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- Ο Στρατός Που Έχασε Από Πουλιά In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- Οι Χιμπαντζήδες Έχουν Προφορά A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Το Ίντερνετ Είναι Κάτω Από Το Νερό Almost all international internet traffic travels along cables lying on the sea floor, which break... Audio
- Το Ζώο Που Φτιάχνει Κύβους Wombats are the only known animal to produce cube shaped droppings, and the corners are formed by uneven... Audio
- Η Πόλη Που Ζει Μέσα Σε Ένα Κτίριο Almost every resident of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building reached through a... Audio
- Λάμπεις. Απλώς Κανείς Δεν Μπορεί Να Το Δει. Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- Ο Χάρτης Σου Θα Έκανε Λάθος Μέχρι το Μεσημέρι Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- Το Μεσημεριανό που Τρώει Όλη μια Χώρα In the Dominican Republic the main meal lands at midday, it is almost always the same three things, and the... Audio
- Αυτό το Μπλε Υπάρχει σε Ένα Μόνο Μέρος A stony beach in the Dominican southwest, one pebble that is blue all the way through, and the single... Audio
- Αυτό το Πουλί Κοιμάται Ενώ Πετάει Frigatebirds stay in the air for days over open ocean, and researchers put recorders on their heads to find... Audio
- Ένα Καφέ, Δύο Χώρες In one small town, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs straight through streets, houses and... Audio
- Η Παραλία που Λάμπει Μπλε τη Νύχτα On some warm coasts, the sea lights up electric blue when you touch it. The light comes from billions of... Audio
- Τα Μηνύματά σου Ταξιδεύουν Κάτω από το Νερό Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- Το Ξενοδοχείο Που Ταξιδεύει Ενώ Κοιμάσαι On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- Η Πόλη που Ξανάβγαλε στο Φως ένα Ποτάμι For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- Δείπνο Μαγειρεμένο από ένα Ηφαίστειο On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... Audio
- Περπατώντας στο Πάτωμα της Θάλασσας Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- Οι Αρχαίοι Άνθρωποι Άκμασαν στο Τροπικό Δάσος Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- Γιατί το Κινητό σου Πεθαίνει στο Κρύο Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- Γιατί το Μέλι 3.000 Χρόνων Είναι Ακόμα Βρώσιμο Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
- Ο Αγώνας Τένις Που Κράτησε Τρεις Μέρες The longest tennis match ever played: Isner vs. Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, eleven hours, three days, a final... Audio
- Το Χταπόδι που Παραβίασε την Κλειδαριά An octopus called Inky escaped his aquarium tank at night through a drain pipe, and what it reveals about... Audio
- Το Κάστρο Που Ο Βασιλιάς Σχεδόν Δεν Έζησε A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- Δέκα Χιλιόμετρα Ψηλά Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- Το Τελευταίο Τρένο In Tokyo, the trains stop around midnight. Tomas learns this five minutes too late, and discovers where the... Audio
- Ένα πλοκάμι που γεύεται Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- Η μεγαλύτερη αμοιβή στην ιστορία του στίβου A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- Μαθαίνουμε σε έναν υπολογιστή να μιλάει φάλαινα Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- Ο αργός χτύπος της καρδιάς των δέντρων Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- Λουλούδια στις τρεις τα ξημερώματα At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- Ο κύκλος και το πρωινό πλοίο The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- Το κριθάρι των ενενήντα ημερών In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- Η συνάθροιση στα βραχονήσια Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- Φτιαγμένο από ό,τι είχαν On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- Το χωριό κάτω από την καταιγίδα At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- Η καρέκλα δίπλα στο τζάκι A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- Έρχεται το πλοίο Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- Δέκα Χιλιάδες Αθλητές, Μία Τελετή Έναρξης The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- Η Τράπεζα που Δέχεται Μόνο Τυρί An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Το Ποσοστό της Μπαταρίας Είναι Εικασία A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio
- Αυτή η Παραλία Είναι από Σκουπίδια A sparkling beach in Northern California is made entirely of old dumped glass, smoothed into colorful... Audio
- Πουθενά Τέταρτος Όροφος In much of East Asia, elevators skip the number four entirely, because it sounds exactly like the word for... Audio
- Η Ομίχλη Κλείνει Πίσω Της On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island one more time before fog rolls in and hides it... Audio
- Ένα Χωριό Συνδεδεμένο σε Ηφαίστειο Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant public pool and warms homes,... Audio
- Το Δείπνο Θάβεται την Αυγή Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below, where dinner cooks for... Audio
- Ένας Κρατήρας, Δύο Χρώματα Polly finds one huge old crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined underneath... Audio
- Το Πουλί που Θεωρήθηκε Χαμένο Δύο Φορές Polly searches an old laurel forest for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found only here, once thought... Audio
- Οι Τελευταίοι Δύο Κήποι της Ευρώπης Polly finds one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe, started after disease wiped out the... Audio
- Εννέα Νησιά, Τρεις Πλάκες Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and learns that three tectonic... Audio
- Η Πόλι παίρνει το λεωφορείο Polly boards the bus downtown for the first time, with a patient capybara at the wheel and one nervous... Audio
- Η Πόλι ρωτάει τον δρόμο Polly gets lost looking for the library and learns that asking is faster than wandering. Audio
- Η Πόλι παραγγέλνει καφέ Polly finds a corner cafe, orders a coffee with milk, discovers churros, and stays for a while by the window. Audio
- Η Πόλι στην αγορά Berta shows Polly the neighborhood market. Polly asks about an unfamiliar fruit, buys apples, and learns... Audio
- Η Πόλι γνωρίζει μια γειτόνισσα Polly arrives on a new street, meets Berta the bear over the garden fence, and they agree to meet again at... Audio
- Αναρρίχηση στο Ξηρότερο Μέρος Polly arrives at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama, the driest place on Earth, where four enormous... Audio
- Βλαδιβοστόκ Polly arrives in Vladivostok at the end of the 9,289-kilometre Trans-Siberian, stretches her wings, and... Audio
- Ο Αμούρ Polly reaches Khabarovsk on the sixth day of the Trans-Siberian, sees the Amur River bordering China, and... Audio
- Λίμνη Βαϊκάλη Polly spends the fifth day of the Trans-Siberian running along Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake on... Audio
- Ζώνες Ώρας Polly explores the dining car on the fourth day, learning that the whole train runs on Moscow time across... Audio
- Διασχίζοντας τα Ουράλια Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the dividing line between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- Τα Δάση με τις Σημύδες Polly wakes up on the second morning of the Trans-Siberian, watching the birch forests of European Russia.... Audio
- Σταθμός Γιαροσλάβσκι Polly boards the Rossiya at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station to begin the 9,289-kilometre, seven-day... Audio
- Αντίο στα Ζυμαρικά Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus and flies out of Naples toward her next destination. Audio
- Ο Συντάκτης του Εαυτού του Polly learns that octopuses edit their own RNA in real time, building a brain that is different in each... Audio
- Πίτσα και το Μεγάλο Μεσημεριανό Polly has the long Italian lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria, learning the protected rules of... Audio
- Το Δέρμα που Βλέπει Polly watches Pasta find food under a coloured plate even though octopuses are colour-blind through their... Audio
- Το Σώμα που Σκέφτεται Polly watches Pasta solve a maze with two arms working independently. She learns that two thirds of an... Audio
- Το Βάζο Polly watches Pasta open a screw-top jar to catch a crab, learning that octopus arms taste what they touch... Audio
- Ο Κόλπος της Νάπολης Polly arrives in Naples and is welcomed into the world's oldest marine biology institute, where she meets a... Audio
- Φεύγοντας από την Κοιλάδα Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas and flies west out of Yosemite, watching a peregrine hunt swifts on her... Audio
- Ο Γαλαξίας Πάνω από το Glacier Point Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- Μισός Θόλος Polly rides thermals up the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome with a flock of swifts, reaches the summit,... Audio
- Το Γεράκι που Βουτάει Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive from El Capitan, learning how the falcon's third eyelid and... Audio
- Η Σεκόγια Polly visits Mariposa Grove and perches on the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000 years old,... Audio
- Βόλτα με τον Δασοφύλακα Τόμας Polly spends a morning in Ranger Tomas's truck, learning how he tracks bear feeding in wildflower meadows... Audio
- Πάνω από την Κοιλάδα Polly arrives at Yosemite Valley from the air, takes in its U-shaped glacial geology, watches climbers on... Audio
- Κυριακάτικη Παέγια An adult granddaughter visits home and finds her grandfather hasn't forgotten anything yet. Audio
- Η Άδεια Κούπα First day at a new office, a small lesson about asking before assuming. Audio
- Αριθμός Σαράντα Επτά A small injury, an old magazine, and a waiting room that teaches patience. Audio
- Το τρένο για τη Γρανάδα An overheard phone call on the train turns a long trip into a kind of company. Audio
- Το Λάθος Βιβλιοπωλείο A simple coffee order leads to a strange conversation about a bookshop that doesn't exist anymore. Audio
- Χαμένη στη Λισαβόνα A wrong turn on a steep street becomes the best part of the trip. Audio
- Το Δωμάτιο 304 Έχει Θέα A late check-in turns into a small gift when the hotel runs out of rooms on the lower floors. Audio
- Τραπέζι για Έναν A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio
- Η Πόλυ Αποχαιρετά το Μπουένος Άιρες Polly, a curious parrot, visits Buenos Aires and helps transform a rivalry at a tango festival into a... Audio
- Η Πόλυ και ο Χορός της Ενότητας Polly and her companions face an unexpected challenge when a rival group claims to host the true tango... Audio
- Ο Απρόσμενος Διαγωνισμός Polly, Diego, and Isabel face an unexpected challenge when a rival group claims to host the true tango... Audio
- Η Σημαντική Πτήση της Polly Polly the parrot helps Diego and Isabel counteract misinformation threatening a tango festival in Buenos... Audio
- Το Μυστήριο του Τάνγκο Polly the parrot joins Diego and Isabel in Buenos Aires, where they learn of a potential plot to disrupt a... Audio
- Μια Απρόσμενη Συνάντηση στη Λα Μπόκα Polly the parrot, exploring Buenos Aires, meets Isabel, a talented artist in La Boca, who is capturing the... Audio
- Η Πόλυ και η Μουσική Τάνγκο του Μπουένος Άιρες Polly the parrot arrives in Buenos Aires and meets Diego, a tango musician preparing for a local festival.... Audio
- Αντίο στο Παρίσι In Paris, Polly helps Isabelle solve the mystery of a missing painting and returns it to the artist. They... Audio
- Ο Χορός της Ανακάλυψης In Paris, Polly helps Isabelle solve the mystery of a missing painting and returns it to the artist. They... Audio
- Η Έκπληξη στη Μονμάρτρη In Paris, Polly the parrot and Isabelle solve the mystery of a missing painting. Returning it to the... Audio
- Η Καταδίωξη στη Γέφυρα Pont des Arts In Paris, Polly the parrot and Isabelle solve the mystery of a missing painting by confronting a mysterious... Audio
- Το Μυστήριο του Χαμένου Πίνακα In Paris, Polly the parrot and Isabelle, a writer, meet Monsieur Dupont, an elderly artist, whose painting... Audio
- Το Μυστικό δίπλα στον Σηκουάνα Polly and Isabelle embark on a walk along the Seine, where they meet Monsieur Dupont, an elderly artist.... Audio
- Η Πολυ Φτάνει στο Παρίσι Polly the parrot arrives in Paris, the City of Light, and lands in a charming café in Le Marais. There, she... Audio
- Τα Μυστικά του Μαρακές Polly the parrot and Fatima, guided by a mysterious map, explore the hidden depths of Marrakech, uncovering... Audio
- Η Έκπληξη της Μυστικής Αγοράς Polly and Fatima, guided by a mysterious map, uncover a hidden courtyard and a secret market in Marrakech.... Audio
- Μια Έκπληξη στο Λαβύρινθο Polly and Fatima, guided by a mysterious map, uncover a hidden courtyard in Marrakech. As they continue... Audio
- Το Μυστικό του Ψιθυριστού Συντριβανιού Polly and Fatima, guided by a mysterious map, uncover a hidden courtyard in Marrakech. They decipher an... Audio
- Ο Μυστηριώδης Χάρτης και η Μυστική Πόρτα Polly and Fatima, following a mysterious map, discover a hidden courtyard in Marrakech. They uncover an... Audio
- Μια Τυχαία Συνάντηση Polly the parrot, alongside Fatima, continues to explore Marrakech, where they encounter an elderly... Audio
- Η Πόλυ στους Μαγικούς Δρόμους του Μαρακές Polly the parrot arrives in Marrakech, where she meets Fatima, a traveler trying to navigate the city's... Audio
- Αστέρια και Ιστορίες Polly and Amir reflect on their adventure under the stars, cherishing the lessons learned and the deepened... Audio
- Τα Μυστικά του Τάφου Inside the lost tomb, Polly and Amir discover a chamber filled with ancient treasures. However, the tomb is... Audio
- Το Κόλπο της Ερήμου Despite initial frustration, Polly and Amir manage to find the hidden entrance to the lost tomb as night... Audio
- Μέσα στην Έρημο Polly and Amir journey into the desert, guided by the clues from the box, to find the entrance to a lost... Audio
- Το Μυστήριο της Μαγικής Μάσκας In Venice, Polly the parrot and historian Isabella continue their quest to uncover a legendary document.... Audio
- Ένας Παράξενος Χάρτης Polly, a curious parrot, arrives in Venice and notices a young woman named Isabella, who holds a mysterious... Audio
- Το Ταξίδι της Πόλλυ στη Βενετία Polly, the curious parrot, arrives in Venice, a city of canals and rich history. As she takes in the sights... Audio
- Αντίο στη Μαρακές Polly says goodbye to Marrakech, having helped uncover a treasure that preserves the city's history, and... Audio
- Το Μυστικό Αποκαλύπτεται Polly and her friends solve a riddle that leads them to a hidden key, unlocking the treasure chamber and... Audio
- Ένας Αγώνας με τον Χρόνο Polly, Leila, and Omar team up to find the treasure, racing through Marrakech as obstacles arise, including... Audio
- Η Πόλυ Φτάνει στο Μαρακές Polly arrives in the vibrant city of Marrakech, soaking in the sensory-rich atmosphere of Jemaa el-Fnaa and... Audio
- Η Πολυ και η Γλώσσα των Αρχαίων Polly, the curious parrot, delves into the mystery of Echoing Canyon's cryptic echoes. Guided by local... Audio
- Η Πόλι και ο Μυστηριώδης Χάρτης Polly the parrot visits an Italian village and helps a boy named Luca understand an old treasure map. They... Audio
- Η Πόλι και το Μυστήριο του Ηχούμενου Φαραγγιού Polly the parrot, exploring the American Southwest, discovers a mysterious echo in Echoing Canyon that... Audio