Thank you for your blog about Murmansk I appreciate your point of view that Murmansk may not be beautiful but its there in the far far arctic. I plant to visit Murmansk this coming summer. There is not much about the place, except some trumped up tourist stuff about the sights. I want to know if there is a synagogue. According to what I have read on the web (Wiki), the northern most synagogue is in Murmansk. But I can find no mention of it. Do you know about it? Thank you so much. Parmalee Cover Portland Oregon USA
Synagogue in Murmansk Hi Parmalee,
I can not say if there is or is not a synagogue in Murmansk. I didn't see any but then I could have walked right past one without knowing it was there. It is a bit difficult to find information on things in Murmansk even if you know what you are looking for.
I wish you good luck with your visit in Murmansk. It is not your average tourist destination but that is also what makes it a nice place in my opinion.
Ake
Spectacular photo of the Ananauri fortress and its two churches I was startled by your photo of the Ananauri fortress and its two churches. It is spectacular.
cool It is cool to live in the bahamas but evan cooler to be born there like was. irene could not brake the spirate of the bahamains.they is cool people no problem.
Japp, helt klart en miss Det var en miss att vi inte såg den. Antagligen åker vi tillbaka till Gdansk ganska snart och vi kommer nog bo i Oliwa då med. Får se till att se den då. Tack för tipset
Oliwa och Drottning Kristina Ni missade helt att Drottning Kristina skänkte en gobeläng som hon påstås ha gjort själv till kyrkan i Oliwa, som en ursäkt för alla plundringståg hennes käre far åstadkom där? Lite lustig grej, sådär.
Good Guns or Bad Guns A friend of mine was an agent for a small arms (pistols and rifles) manufacturer. He was making sales to the BENELUX countries. His neighbors criticized him as if he was a war monger. He replied, The next time an aggressor comes to occupy us, do you want our soldiers to have good weapons or inferior weapons?
Grattis Åke Hej Åke. Jaha ni är ute och reser igen. Visst är det skönt med sommarlov. Ni reser, jag syr kapell till mikn båt. Men även jag skall ut och resa. Den 5: juli bär det av till tyskland, till Trier för att cykla och dricka goda viner längs med mosel. Sedan blir det mest roslagen och mycket skärgård hoppas jag.
Jag har skrivit på kontrakt för ett nytt år på St: Erik. Det blir skrämmande mycket nya ämnen. Mekatronik, Datorteknik 1a, Matematik, Servicekunskap och så var det något mer som jag inte minns just nu. Men nu tänker vi inte mer på det. Nu gäller sommarlov. Ha en bra sommar från Svante.
when it comes to poland... there was no american soldiers during or after II WW in Poland. neither in the current polish territory nor the prewar territory. maybe the old swedes were taken to the czechoslovakia - part of that country were in fact liberated by americans and than given to the soviets. i guess the old lady could have remembered that people out there were talking slavic language different from russian or ukainian and thought it was polish;) anyway, fascinating story, especially for swedish learner!:)
Probably not a flower pot Mnjä, skulle snarare tro att det är en dopfunt, men vad vet jag. Zakje hälsar att det nog är ett äckligt bad, vad man nu ska bada för :-)
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
Angel Falls in Ven... full info
Chris Beard
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Incredible architecture.