Why You Should Go Somewhere Cold This Winter

A couple of years ago I made a mistake. I decided to go to Poland for the winter. But that wasn’t the mistake – the mistake was losing my nerve and leaving.

Let me explain.

I’d decided to go to check out Poland as a place to live for a while, following a tip-off from my brother-in-law. Winter was coming (and in my head, ‘Poland’ equated to ‘cold’) but I felt in a rut and needed out of the UK. I ended up in the city of Wroclaw, hanging out in a hostel whilst I sorted myself out.

What happened nex...