I may be walking down Pokrovsky Boulevard again this week, and I will make a point of taking the photo of the same view....
I‘ve seen them doing the same thing in Manchester, although those were usually the arrows pointing to the next “just opened” vintage shop or fair. In Moscow, though, they use the ped...
Bristol 38, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I took this photo in Bristol almost a year ago. There’re so many photos on my Flickr, yet I’ve only ever managed to tell about a few...
Bristol 19, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Bristol Exchange , Corn St (Old City) The country’s only remaining Georgian Exchange. Did you note the two-second hand minutes when there ...
There is a story I love telling about me visiting St Petersburg in late August of 2002. I and Daniel had just returned after a month in Manchester back to Russia (it was the first year of our marriage...
Happy St Patrick’s Day 2011 While wishing a happy St Patrick’s Day to all my Irish friends and readers, I’d like to share with you a great photoreport from Sarah from The Daily Nibbl...
Those who know George Mikes’s How to Be an Alien will spot a paraphrase of one of the book’s chapters. If Naturalised draws on the experience of a new British citizen who was born and bred...
Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. George Mikes, a Hungarian-born British writer. PS – A research has shown several years ago that the English could now be c...
Israel (from DeoTravel) A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies ...
The story that was recently covered by Le Figaro, has started in Moscow in around 2007 when Valery Alekseev decided to break out from his comfort zones, using the “Extreme Rhetoric” method...