Flight No.1 of 2016

I left you last time with me exasperated by the atypical Paris weather in November and deciding to go underground out of the snow and wind and cold. Underground? What – into the metro? No, something much more unusual – and spooky: into the Catacombs of Paris!  As Wikipedia informs us, Les Catacombes de Paris […]

Au revoir Algeria; bonjour France!… Next up on my brief Africo-Euro November business-trip: Paris. The Paris segment was busy on the work front: new acquaintances, meetings, negotiations – all as per. However – also as per – I just had to get some tourisms in: after all, this was Paris, no less. But, as luck […]

Algeria’s history – from ancient to modern times – is a rich and interesting one. If the internet is to be believed, the first inhabitants here appeared some 300-400 thousand years ago! That means that before it was conquered by the Romans, several ancient states had already existed on the territory. After the Roman colonial […]

Hi folks – from Algeria! It’s the first time I’ve been to this country – giving me a +1 to my list of visited countries: the 106th! And it’s the second newbie to that list this year (after the Philippines)… Here’s a view of the country’s capital – Algiers: A few facts about the country:

Onward – along Route 264. Ahead lie difficulties and hardships, raptures and amazements, volcanisms and bubbling-springisms. In short, what we were here for – what we love!… And it all started here: This is the estuary of the Semyachik river – a few kilometers from the tiny settlement of Zhupanovo (so tiny it’s not even […]

It’s been ages since the last time I wrote about outer space – too long; for space is cool far out!… Exploration of extraterrestrial space in any form, manned or not – plus cosmonautics, astrophysics and telescopes at the top of volcanoes, it’s all extremely important for the whole of mankind – and fantastically interesting for the […]