Over the last month I visited three different countries. This year, in general, I visited four different countries: France, Estonia, Latvia, and the UK. Scotland, for that matter, is sadly still a par...
There was a discussion in one of the Philosophy groups on Facebook concerning the amount of time we spend doing things, both trivial and not. The suggestion is to concentrate, to spend more time think...
Like many other Mancunians, I have been unpleasantly surprised to hear the latest news. The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester’s Castlefield may be closed. SIGN THE PETITION TO PROTECT...
Et bon, mes chers lecteurs, enfin j’ai visite Paris. Pardonnez-moi l’absence des articles, mais il n’y a pas de langue francaise a mon telephone. Those of you who have been reading t...
If we take George Mikes’s title literally and add to it the fact that each of us is a rather solitary figure in this world, then each of us is an alien. Either an Englishman in New York, or a Ru...
To add to the funny moments here is a rather blurry photograph (sorry!) taken at the Antique Salon in October 2012. When wandering through the splendid displays I caught the shelf where an antique boo...
Google celebrates the centenary of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts with a delicate Doodle The impressive building of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Volkhonka St., across the road from the restored...
It is almost strange to say this, but spring finally seems to be coming to Moscow. The winter has been hesitant to start, and then it did not want to end. Even now the snow is still on the ground, alt...
Blue orchids, Vietnam A friend of mine has recently been to Vietnam. In the Soviet times you could see quite a lot of Vietnamese in Moscow, and even in my district there lived several families. I don&...
The exhibition by Svetlana Konegen "Nome. Cose. Citta" (Names. Things. Cities) follows several Italian towns where the lnguist travelled...