I‘ve seen them doing the same thing in Manchester, although those were usually the arrows pointing to the next “just opened” vintage shop or fair. In Moscow, though, they use the ped...
Happy St Patrick’s Day 2011 While wishing a happy St Patrick’s Day to all my Irish friends and readers, I’d like to share with you a great photoreport from Sarah from The Daily Nibbl...
Those who know George Mikes’s How to Be an Alien will spot a paraphrase of one of the book’s chapters. If Naturalised draws on the experience of a new British citizen who was born and bred...
The story that was recently covered by Le Figaro, has started in Moscow in around 2007 when Valery Alekseev decided to break out from his comfort zones, using the “Extreme Rhetoric” method...
You have probably heard about Moscow’s atrocious traffic jams. I have to visit my house 30 mins earlier because I must allow for the fact that it may take me 10-20 mins longer to get from my hou...
I ventured to the north of Moscow today, near the VDNKh – the famous All-Union Exhibition Centre. By the time I was going back home via the same metro station it was snowing heavily, and I could...
Not unlike Paul Arden in his book, I failed to find a better caption for this photo, so please feel free to offer your ideas. The photo is that of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow. The balc...
London, 2004 The photo in London was taken on a film camera (affectionately known as a “soapbox”) in April 2004; it was the day when I walked from Fitzroy Street through High Holborn and v...
I took these photos of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Smolenskaya Square on the day of my birthday in December. My father and I were walking down the Old Arbat Street, wra...