This post is to merely point out to a striking, if ironic and kind of poignant, coincidence in location. By this point today I have accidentally met my old University friend, and we were walking toget...
Moscow is a fantastic place: there are many things that they haven’t got in Britain, and then there are things that they do have. Just like you may never leave Manchester because you have Piccad...
This was one of those decisive moments: when I walked into the territory of the Sretensky Stavropegial Monastery today, the first thing I saw was the priest walking with a holy book in hands. The scen...
A rather European church yard Bell Tower (1788) I had a long walk today in the centre of Moscow, and this time I will be sharing some of the impressions straight away. The first is a visit to the chur...
Credit: CRAF Yesterday in St Petersburg there opened an exhibition of Italian landscape photography organised by the Italian Cultural Institute (RU) and the CRAF Centre of Research and Archivation of ...
Credit: Stef To celebrate the April Fools Day, someone on LinkedIn added these profiles to the network. While Sherlock Holmes and Groucho Marx were assigned hardly surprising occupations, Robin Hood i...
Bristol 79, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. The passion for Gothic style that marked the entire 19th c. and the early 20th c. may well have culminated in some of the university buildings. ...
Bristol 71, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. One thing I particularly loved about Bristol is its at times unexpected architectural “solutions”. I would describe these balconies ...
Bristol 74, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. This photo was taken on a very warm Saturday afternoon in April. I walked around the Cathedral, popped into the Library, then went all the way u...
Credit: Pills Place blog And the biggest mystery is always this: who is there on the other end? Is it one person or a group of people? If there is a case of impersonation, then does the person imperso...