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21 Jan 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure
First stop on GOA - Mapusa town We started our journey to the first beach and our first accommodation point from Mapusa. As in all India, crowds, cramps, stench and noise. It is a small town where buses come from Bombay, a kind of transfer...
18 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Mexico is hardcore. It's like a pretty girl with a switchblade knife. A beautiful scar. A soccer ball in headlights, bouncing through the street. An inferno of confetti. A homecooked meal on the sidewalk. A cigarette of lemon dust. A love song pad...
16 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z4i2wWfrv2sf8kc5 England, like any other country, has its drawbacks, but its indisputable advantage can definitely be called high-quality competitive education and culture of books, libraries,th...
14 Jan 2025 11 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z4TwF-timWl300qx Russian z-propagandists are like sewage tanks filled with contents. Z-patriots rejoice at the fires in Los Angeles, forgetting how Siberia burned in Russia. But Russians don't k...
14 Jan 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z4TU4xfh-n9GrFIz The Bodleian Library recently turned 422 years old (!), Oxford itself is almost a thousand years old (928 years).Surprisingly, Oxford and Cambridge are not just a "brand", it is...
13 Jan 2025 1 minute read 4 comments madventure
The symbol of happiness and love, used to this day in most cultures of the world - that is, Swastika. Olive bowl with traces of the creator's fingerprint While traveling around the world, mainly in Asia, you can come across this symbol ve...
10 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Isn't that something? Middle of a drought and thewater commissioner drowns. Only in L.A."Chinatown In the spring of 2005, I lived in a defunct motel in Malibu for 2 weeks, free of charge. It wasn't a motel in the traditional sense, but rather a...
8 Jan 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure
It is said to be the spirit of a young 16-year-old girl, daughter of Prince Leon from the Sapieha family. Her name was Zosia. The whole story is a romantic unfulfilled love where the girl's parents forced her to marry a man other than the...
7 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure
We live on the eastern side of Zanzibar in the town of Bweju. We don't have a chance to see romantic sunsets, but we can see it sunrise. It is magical. The sun reflects off the surface of the ocean, which is emerald green on a daily basis,...
3 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria to Bratislava, Slovakia, 1 hour 43 minutes, 19.6 miles (31.5 km), 470 feet (143 m) of elevation (climbing). Today started out with rain, and we were unsure how that would impact our ride. Since it was a really short...
