June 17, 2018
When in Yangon, we visited a unique place: a former family glass factory which went through dramatic events. Not a conventional tourist attraction, the place, however, has an interesting and heart-breaking story to it.
October 9, 2016
One week ago we visited one of the landmarks of Tallinn – Patarei prison (‘battery’). October, 2 was announced as the last day of existence for this complex in its present form. For the last 15 years, it was a kind of a museum, as well as a place for filming movies or organising events. The building goes to ruins…
April 7, 2016
Unfortunately, so far we did not have any stories about the country where we have been living for five years – Estonia. Today we will write about the weekend, when spring finally came to Estonia, and we made a day trip in the area surrounding Tallinn.
September 28, 2015
Three weeks ago we rented a car in Saint-Petersburg to go to Karelia for three days – to celebrate Victor’s PhD. The best celebration for us is travelling and seeing as much as possible. In Karelia, we visited Ladoga Lake and less popular Onega Lake. Here come our impressions from the first part: the trip around Ladoga Lake and Ruskeala…
August 30, 2014
Our trip to Central Asia started from Urgench, a city in the West of Uzbekistan. We started it there not occasionally: not far from Urgench there is a town of Muynak which used to be a blossoming industrial center at Aral Sea, but ended up as a dying out dessert village.