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A book paradise. Blackwell Books, Oxford

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...

The fire in Los Angeles through the eyes of an eyewitness

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...

The winter miracle. Oxford and Cambridge

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...

Swastika in my travels around Asia

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...

The Golden Age of Disingenuous Chicanery

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...

The White Lady of the castle cloisters - Krasiczyn Castle in Poland

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...

Morning in Zanzibar

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,...

Day 15 Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria to Bratislava, Slovakia (Rain and broken Chain...)

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...

Day 13 - Our Day in Vienna (It's not supposed to be this HOT)

1 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

I know, I'm so far behind on this blog. I'm trying to get back to finishing it.  I think I have put off writing about Vienna because it was a bit of a letdown for me, as we didn't plan well.   Today was one of our few 'rest' days. That's in quotes be...

A taste of Japan

30 Dec 2024 2 minute read 12 comments crypto newbie mom

  First posted on https://www.bulbapp.io/    Good morning/evening.   As you may be aware Japan, is somewhere that I would like to visit one day (hopefully in the not too distant future). I would like to visit cities and rural areas and if I am lucky...