Archive for December, 2007
Happy New Year to you all! З Новим Роком! С Новым Годом! Mutlu Yıllar!
Wishing you tons of health, love, joy, fun and adventures…
P.S. I’m so sorry for not writing back to some of you. One of my New Year’s resolutions, though, is to stop being so sporadic and start keeping in touch with friends properly! [...]
Happy New Year to you all! З Новим Роком! С Новым Годом! Mutlu Yıllar!
Wishing you tons of health, love, joy, fun and adventures…
P.S. I’m so sorry for not writing back to some of you. One of my New Year’s resolutions, though, is to stop being so sporadic and start keeping in touch with friends properly! [...]
Global Voices OnlineSaturday, December 29, 2007
Russia is embarking on a 10-day national vacation: from Dec. 30 to Jan. 8, the country will be celebrating the New Year’s and Orthodox Christmas – and should also have enough time to rest, relax and sober up in between. Charity isn’t among the most popular subjects in the Russian [...]
Marta is acting really wild here, refuses to go to bed, keeps waking up at night, and I’m too exhausted to write anything now, don’t really have anything to say, even though I do feel like saying something… So here are two pictures of today’s rush hour in Istanbul:
Marta is acting really wild here, refuses to go to bed, keeps waking up at night, and I’m too exhausted to write anything now, don’t really have anything to say, even though I do feel like saying something… So here are two pictures of today’s rush hour in Istanbul:
Finally, two views from our balcony, and I’m off to bed:
Part of Aya Sofya on the first photo – and Aya Irini on both.
Finally, two views from our balcony, and I’m off to bed:
Part of Aya Sofya on the first photo – and Aya Irini on both.
The first one is Sultanahmet Camii, the second one is Aya Sofya.
And some Turkish kids on a school trip, eating their lunches between the two landmarks.
But Istanbul may not be such a good place to take your teenage kid to: a “Westerner”-looking mama and son came up to me today and asked if I [...]
The first one is Sultanahmet Camii, the second one is Aya Sofya.
And some Turkish kids on a school trip, eating their lunches between the two landmarks.
But Istanbul may not be such a good place to take your teenage kid to: a “Westerner”-looking mama and son came up to me today and asked if I [...]
The weather’s awesome.
There was no sun in Moscow for something like a month. And no snow. It was so depressing. And I really owe an apology to those New York Times and Washington Post people that I blasted in this post back in November: I’m now convinced that snowless winters in Moscow do deserve [...]


