And once again city services are taken by surprise. They never expect that in Siberia it might snow in winter and roads will need cleaning.
It started to snow in the evening, they started to clean roads at 7am. I went to bus stop half an hour earlier than usual. Now it is almost two hours later and I am a bit over halfway there. Already 20 minutes ( Read more... )

It has been 2.5 years since my last meaningful post. I don't like new format and so I just stopped using app. But as a result I ended with a lot of photos left unsorted, and looking at them I want to share.

I will restart Golden Ring vacation posts before moving on new ones. I had a few very beautiful trips and have next one planned out for February ( Read more... )

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1) What's your favorite dish to bring to a summer cookout?
Cookouts aren't a thing here. But two best summer dishes are shashlik (barbeque) and okroshka (cold vegetable soup).

2) How much time have you spent outdoors this week?Not too much, because summer went on vacation this week and we got +12C to +17C weather with rains. But on Thursday ( Read more... )

1. What are you going to do this weekend?
I am going to dacha. Actually, as I am posting this on Sunday, I am there, sitting out heat in house. We are hit with +33C heat wave, which is really unusual in May. So we can work in garden only until 11am and then after 5pm. Between that is time for lazing on lawn in shadow of pines and birches.

2. What ( Read more... )

All photos I found are not 60th, but beginning of 20th century. Kyrgyz traders usually came in on camels and there are a few old photos featuring them. I didn't find the photos I was thinking about though.


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1) What's the furthest place you've traveled to in the last 12 months?
75km or 45 miles. Sister and I went to a skiing base just outside of the city.

2) What's the most interesting small town within driving distance?Bolsherechye. It is rated as village not a town, but is has a zoo and historical reconstruction museum. And I never been there as an ( Read more... )

(Trying to get back to LJ)

1) Do you like to drive?
No. I got driving license but never drove a car after that.

2) Do you own (or have regular use of) a car? What kind is it?
I don't own a car, but my father drives Lada Granta while sister opted for Datsun on-DO, which is mostly same thing, but with whistles and bells. If I had to drive, I'd pick ( Read more... )

I got an hour of overtime and a cloudy head today. The reason - our office building was struck by lightening during short thunderstorm some 40 minutes ago. It knocked out power briefly, damaged office net, almost killed my monitor. It took IT 40 minutes to get everything back working. And nearly deafened my colleague - he was closer to window and ( Read more... )

Been to an NFL game? - No
Been to Canada? - No
Visited Florida? - No
Visited Mexico? - No
Visited Vegas? - No
Eaten alone at a restaurant? - Yes, quite a few times
Ability to read music? - No, I am not musically inclined at all
Rode a motorcycle? - No. It is something I would have liked to try, as a passenger.
Ridden a horse? - Yes, but it was a ( Read more... )