Canada - America with a human face

10/06/2024
Last year, I visited North America for the fourth time, this time including the second largest country in the world - Canada. Although I was only in the main cities and I did not see the depths of Canada, I can do a brief overview of this country.

Vienna Museum of Art History

10/06/2024
I love to go to museums. I like the collections, when many items can be visually compared with each other. I especially want to visit museums with carefully selected exhibits. And one of these museums is undoubtedly the Vienna Museum of Art History, which impresses with its collection and architecture.

Gdansk is not for you Danzig

10/06/2024
Good weather, warm sea, not crowded beaches - all this almost never converge on the Baltic coast. And already in the middle of autumn, and even more so. In this case, there should be a reserve plan for marking the vast Baltic coast. Polish three-cities-together-for a long time-one-agglomeration (ie Trójmiasto, ie “Tricities”) can provide such an opportunity.

Vancouver Island

10/06/2024
As if there is not enough confusion between Vancouver in Canada and Vancouver being 500 miles from it, there is also the third Vancouver - a huge island that in good weather can even be seen from the city of Vancouver ... the one that the Canadian ... well, you understand ...

Oregon

10/06/2024
To date, Oregon, perhaps, seems to me the most beautiful and diverse state of America. It seems that here you can find almost all possible landscapes of the United States.

Amook Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska

10/06/2024
Where in America is the wilderness? The teenager will tell us that where there is no waifa. A tourist - where there are no other tourists, a motorist - where there are no refuellings, a traveler - where it takes a long and hard to get. For me, the wilderness is a place where no one wants to get to, at least at this time of year.

What does a properly arranged city look like?

10/06/2024
Vienna is not only a beautiful city, but also very convenient. Let's try to figure out what elements make up the cozy urban environment, how and for whom it is built.

Vancouver

10/06/2024
I'll tell you a little about Vancouver, a city in British Columbia, Canada, where I was lucky enough to live for more than two years.

Non-touristic New York. Bronx.

10/06/2024
All tourists, arriving in New York, in Manhattan crowd. I - is no exception, no matter where I stop, most of the time I spend there. Where else? Not in the Bronx? And here is the opposite happened, I appeared in Manhattan raids, and the Bronx climbed all, in any case, a decent part of Riverdale. For some reason it is considered important to mention the name, when you tell it to our emigrants. Because he heard the word "Bronx", people in the know are starting to wrinkle his nose, and when specified, what I mean Riverdale, they say that it is another matter.

The holy city of victory Preah Khan

10/06/2024
To the north of Angkor Thom in the shade of the jungle hiding from the busy tourist flows massive temple Preah Khan, built at the end of the XII century by King Jayavarman VII in order to honor the memory of his father. In the galleries and courtyards almost restored, but only cleared of undergrowth temple incredibly nice stroll, feeling little discoverers.

Ushuaia - the southernmost city of the world

10/06/2024
Residents of a small Argentine town of Ushuaia call their homeland "land of the corner." Others tend to call this locality "Gateway Antarctica". Visiting Ushuaia almost inevitable in several cases: if you are planning to visit the icy continent of the Earth; If the envelope to South America on a ship; if you just like to travel to exotic places, because Ushuaia - the southernmost city of the world.

Fabulous fall

10/06/2024
Autumn traveled to Bavaria to the royal castles of Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau. The locks themselves did not enter a couple of times already inside. We decided to take a walk in the mountains, to find new places for photo castles in and around Alpine lake pass

Helsinki from the sea, from the air, and a little history

10/06/2024
Helsinki - the capital of the unusual. City all the time at the hearing: in his honor named the Moscow Helsinki Group, are regularly held various summits and meetings, hosted the Olympic Games and Eurovision. The existence of Helsinki is known to all, no worse than the existence of Rome, Paris or New York, but if Rome is associated with the Colosseum, Paris with the Eiffel Tower, and New York with the Statue of Liberty, the Helsinki the average person is not associated with anything.

Ferry Tallinn-Helsinki

10/06/2024
The distance from Tallinn to Helsinki by sea - only 80 kilometers. Overland comes exactly ten times more, in addition, across the border with Russia, not part of the Schengen area, so it was logical that 97% of passengers between the two capitals rests on the ferries.

Just another Hong Kong

10/06/2024
The center of Hong Kong - the standard of the city, striving upwards. It is full of high-rise buildings, clambering up the slope of Victoria Peak. But there is another Hong Kong, in which (almost) no skyscrapers. In some places it even a quiet, green, and a little deserted. Today I'll tell you about it.