New York budget

10/06/2024
New York is known to be a very intense metropolis: City never sleeps, say townspeople. At the same time, New Yorkers and visitors to the city have to be expensive to pay for a sign of financial capital of the world: the prices in restaurants, taxis and accommodation - an order of magnitude higher than that across America.

Summer in Chicago

10/06/2024
Exactly one year ago, in the first days of June I finished a three-month korpenie over diserom at Caltech, got on a plane and within five hours drinking Guinness with his longtime friend in downtown Chicago. Long had to write about the city (especially promised a friend to share the view from the outside), but somehow did not develop.

Los Angeles

10/06/2024
Behind visit an old friend and four days exploring the surrounding area of Los Angeles, past the accompaniment of heavy rain and cold weather in California to +12. I do not want to clutter up your tape lengthy introduction, so straight to the point.

Phuket

10/06/2024
Thailand is beautiful. Even despite the fact that 90% of tourists in this country, it is our countrymen (and on vacation so I want to take a break from all of them), here you can find more secluded places. We conducted in Thailand (Phuket), 8 days, and had four more in Singapore and Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur). Today I will talk about his impressions of Thailand and show almost all the beaches of Phuket, making their ratings.

Santiago de Compostela

10/06/2024
It is difficult to write about the city, where the past lives on a par with the present and the future, and religion should be behind you on all its old streets ... The more I wanted to finally write about it, the harder it was to start because too much had to understand itself, too much to explain too many characters to find.

From Marseille to Barcelona through Andorra bikes

10/06/2024
A small report on a bike tour from France to Spain via Andorra. It will primarily interested in those who are planning bike tours in Europe.

Nice

10/06/2024
My trip to the French Riviera began with Nice. In Nice, I flew on an airplane, and here we rented a room in a hotel, and from here every day we went to the next town along the Riviera. Of all the cities of Nice Côte d'Azur, with its 200,000 inhabitants seemed to me the most democratic, most youth and, simply, live. In Nice, I photographed quite a bit, so that today, under the cut - a compact overview report from the capital of the French Riviera.

City of active elderly Sun City

10/06/2024
In any guidebook no American city with Flower Dunno and other shorty in any guidebook no city built especially for the elderly. Yes, in general, then, this city is no longer in any country.

City sunniest islands. Toronto.

10/06/2024
For almost two weeks in Toronto weather reigns spring. Spring is not timid, not modest and arrogant, calling on all sides smelling summer. Therefore take from last year's bins bicycle-travel size report about the glorious city of Toronto. The fact that Toronto is located on the shores of Lake Ontario, is known to all.

Monte-Carlo, Monaco

10/06/2024
Traveling on the Côte d'Azur, one day we spent in one of the smallest countries in the world - Monaco. We went to all the main attractions and most took home a stack of coins from Monaco, visited the graves of princes, admired sharks in the aquarium, walked along the harbor and even went to the casino lobby "Monte Carlo", so today I have something to tell you.

Up the river Chagres

10/06/2024
Chagres - a picturesque river, which originates in the mountains of the Cordillera de San Blas and flows into the Panama Canal. Drinking water for Panama City, Panama City for electricity and columns, almost 80% of the water needed for the channel - all waters of the river Chagres.

Jakarta, Kota

10/06/2024
Huge and dirty city, crowded and chaotic built up, crowded with people and cars and unrepresentative for the traveler other interest than transit somewhere deep into Southeast Asia. The impression created on the Jakarta after reading guidebooks and stories on the forums travelers. But we, urbanists, loving bustling metropolis, such stories are not scared, are not you? Well-preserved historic districts, the forest of modern skyscrapers, comfort and organized public transport system, tolerant and unobtrusive people - is also in Jakarta.

Basilica Cistern

10/06/2024
The siege of the ancient walled cities often rests not in fact whether the besieging party to break the wall under a hail of arrows and throwing objects other defenders of the city, not in a tunnel under the wall, and a completely different: it was just for a while to cut the defenders of food and water and if the besieging army supplies were more attenuated garrison there was little he could oppose the attackers.

Hungarian thermal springs Heviz, Balaton and Budapest around 4 days

10/06/2024
Our trip to Hungary began heroically - once we have passed the security check, both on the scoreboard came the announcement that our flight is delayed for five hours! It turned out that in Hungary strike engineers serving the aircraft. Went to look for, where to wait.

Trip to Pashley Manor, East Sussex

10/06/2024
When we turned off the road, and opened to us a view of the estate, the first arisen thought was, "How did it all in English." And, really, and the mansion and park, and even the forest is a true example of British aesthetics. The mansion was built in 1550, is very beautiful on the outside, but inside you can not see it - it hosts live. Though - thanks to them! - Your garden for visitors they opened. A look into the garden there is!