Protected: The unbelievable filmmaking feats of our American friends on the Kuril expedition.

It’s been a while since the last instalment of my tales-from-the-places-to-stay-side (hotels tag), mostly due to the fact that the places I’ve been staying in of late have been nothing to write home – or on a blog – about. But that changed recently, when we were in London!… We stayed a night at the […]

My recent trip to London was a busy one not only on the business front, but on the touristic-walktastic one too. We got a central London walk in, and we did a new – long – stretch of the Thames Path. Along the way on these walks we took in the dominating Battersea Power Station, […]

After the other day’s recap of the five legs of the Thames Path already walked, herewith, leg 6. And as luck would have it – no rain! In fact the sun was shining, lighting up the fall reds and yellows just nice – not forgetting the sky’s blue: ‘Thames Path’ – that way. Good. Off we […]

Hi folks! Still in London – we’ve done the nostalgia and we’ve lamented geopolitics, but we refuse to get down. So we go give London yet further inspection!… First up – Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. And we’re headed waaaaay over there, along the riverbank -> A somber note… Alas, the famous red […]

Traditions come in different shapes and sizes. Some folks, for example, every New Year’s Eve go for a monster banya-session (at least in Russia!). Some folks – particularly adventurous Russians! – spend a month every summer in Kamchatka or Altai or the Kurils or some other similarly awesome part of the world. Other traditions are […]

I was in London only a month ago – but, since if you’re tired of London, you’re tired of life‘, I was back in the UK capital just the other day!… And – just as I prefer it – we arrived with plenty of time to spare before our business program was set to start, […]