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Countryside hiking - A freezing walk in the trees

6 Feb 2022 1 minute read 4 comments lemming

 In December 2021 I was asked to make a survey in a place called "Riserva Naturale Cassa di espansione del fiume Secchia". It is an area located on the border between the provinces of Modena and Reggio Emilia that was formerly the site of numerous qu...

Tel Aviv Street Art: Florentine Neighborhood

5 Feb 2022 1 minute read 4 comments b_eleven

I got a chance to walk through the Florentine neighborhood of Tel Aviv. There, street art or graffiti, is a way of life and expression. In some areas where buildings are scheduled for future demolition, the city even allows the street art. (To be fai...

Tyska Kyrkan (Old German Church): Stockholm, SWEDEN

5 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy

  This is a nice memory from the middle of the 2021 Corona time. During this time, most of the concerts across Europe were pretty uncertain... most of the large scale ones were being cancelled left, right and centre. Even many of the small ones we...

Chernobyl and Pripyat (Прип'ять), a ghost town

5 Feb 2022 4 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

Pripyat is the so-called "nuclear power plant" - this is the name of the cities in Russia where the majority of residents work in the nuclear power industry. The "atom city" was built during the Soviet Union and was the 9th "atom city" in present-d...

Review of The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant

4 Feb 2022 3 minute read 1 comment powersjo

The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant is written by Terry Felber and this version of the book has a foreword by Dave Ramsey. The book is a short, fictional story portrayed as a grandfather tells his grandson about his life as a merchant. The grandf...

Ko Phi Phi a trampled paradise on earth - my journey through Asia - Thailand

3 Feb 2022 5 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

Ko Phi Phi - a trampled paradise Ko Phi Phi - zadeptany raj While traveling around Thailand, I heard different opinions about the island of Ko Phi Phi and many people were not delighted with what they found there. Lots of tourists, terrible com...

Fort Junagarh never conquered - Rajasthan, Bikaner city - my travels in Asia

1 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Never conquered Nigdy nie zdobyty The construction of the Junagarh Fort, also known as Chintamani, began in 1589 and continued until 1594. It was built on the ruins of an old fort built in 1478 by Rao Bik, the second son of Maharaj Rao Jodha. B...

Borobudur Temple or "Temple Hill" - my trip around Indonesia - Java

30 Jan 2022 4 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

Late discovery Późne odkrycie The existence of the temple was found out only in 1814, when, on the initiative of the British governor Thomas Stamford, Raffles was discovered. During his trip around Java, he heard about a great structure hidden...

Countryside hiking - It is snowing

28 Jan 2022 1 minute read 8 comments lemming

A couple of weeks ago, it was a Sunday morning, we got up that it was snowing.  It was cold I could not help but take advantage of that opportunity for a walk in the countryside near home. I am lucky enough to live in a house that has a residential n...

Life has not changed here for centuries - Jaisalmer Fort, Rajasthan, India - my travels in India

27 Jan 2022 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Golden Fort in Jaisalmer Złoty fort w Jaisalmer Jaisalmer is a small city located in Rajasthan in the Thar Desert. As it is in the desert, there is not much entertainment. There is a magnificent golden fort, one of the largest in the world, and a...