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!

Tossa de Mar

10/06/2024
This entry should come to the aid of someone wave beach tourism brought somewhere to desert the Spanish coast, well, for example, to a distant and mysterious Costa Brava ...   Recording light as a continental breakfast. Packaging Option - takeaway ...

With cute and Portugal paradise ...

10/06/2024
Once upon a time, not so long ago, my favorite and the only one suddenly suggested: "Let's fly to Faro - where the land ends and the ocean begins!". At that time I did not really represented where, in fact, is the lighthouse and why, and most importantly how to get there worth. But it was so born frenzy leading to the happiest days of our lives.

Langkawi, Hotel Tanjung Rhu

10/06/2024
Week vacation in Langkawi happened at the Tanjung Rhu. We quite by accident, but very successfully guessed the hotel, so that family vacation was nothing marred.

How to grow rice in Bali

10/06/2024
Friends, finally, for all of this for a long time, I decided to disassemble archive photos and found a great many pictures on the subject - rice and rice fields. I decided to redo the previous post and supplement it with interesting facts and photos. Photos for this post were taken at different times, to cover wider periods of growth of the culture. Sorry for the poisonous HDR (sometimes wakes mania all paint)

Liverpool. Titanic 100 years. Interview with the Vampire and the Giants.

10/06/2024
Titanic 100 years Britain has said in several cities: Belfast, where he opened a museum dedicated to the history of this wonderful ship from South Hampton was 700 people from the team of this ship, and of course Liverpool where the ship set sail into history.

Iceland. A country where everything is different.

10/06/2024
What do we know about Iceland? Most likely, only that there is a volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which erupted in 2010, left for a week without air travel all over Europe and in the pronunciation of the name is the leading news from around the world trained diction. And also the fact that it is cold volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, between Europe and America.

Auschwitz

10/06/2024
Concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is approximately 60 km from Krakow, near the town of Oswiecim. Auschwitz - is not only a city, but also the name of the Polish concentration camp. Concentration Camp consists of three main camps. Visit it can be with a guided tour, which lasts for about 4 hours and includes two camps: Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz 2 (Birkenau).

Burgos

10/06/2024
Until recently, I heard that in Spain and Bulgaria have almost the same name of the city - whether Burgos, whether Burgas. And over the last year by chance (due to fog in Sofia), I visited both of these cities, and now I know: in Bulgaria - Burgas, and in Spain - Burgos ...

Town Egloffstein in the Franconian Switzerland

10/06/2024
About Franconian Switzerland I wrote in his LiveJournal repeatedly. This eco-friendly region, the famous air spas, breweries, small distillery zavodik and Easter wreaths. Egloffshtayn town, which I want to tell you today is not much different from other cities in the region - a cute, vintage, friendly and quiet. Graphs, whose name is a fortress in the city, living in this city for over 800 years!

Tallinn

10/06/2024
In November, I went on a day trip to Tallinn. Travel schedule was very tight and free time almost was not. On the day of departure, I got up early in the morning and managed to the plane a few hours to run through the old town with a camera. Photo report attached.

Paradise found. Practical information.

10/06/2024
North of the island of Palawan and the village of El Nido - the most beautiful place of all that I saw in the Philippines and, perhaps, in all of Southeast Asia. Post about a bunch uninhabited islands, wild beaches, pristine nature, life in the village, as well as a lot of useful disk imaging, what to do and why to go there at all.

Czech Switzerland

10/06/2024
Bohemian Switzerland (Czech. Ceske Svycarsko, it. Bohmische Schweiz) - The Czech part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, which are called in the German part of the Saxon Switzerland. This area of North Bohemia is located on the upper reaches of the river Elbe near Decin.