Kharkov and Kiev 21-30 June Day 1 Yanaul - Moscow, about 20 hours, by train. This time I go to Kharkov and Kiev for no other occasion than to see Tiesto again, the mighty dj, dance and have some walks round the cities. Especially Kiev, photos of which are on a broken hard disk drive which needs to be repaired. May be you will hear about that first trip later. I started early in the morning. I like when a train trip starts early in the morning, it means one can sleep for at least some hours due to tiredness. I hope you forgive me if my English is not quite authentic in some phrases. I laid almost during the whole day, listening to my player. My earphones got broken, but we reached Kazan after midday, ... read more

Yesterday I and my friend had a walk from Birsk, my native town, to Sosnovy Bor - a place located some 15-18 km from the city. I had the idea of making foot walks in the roundabouts of my town not long ago, and yesterday this plan was completed. There was no need to go on foot from Sosnovy Bor back, we drove in a car, which took some 15 minutes only, while the walk itself took about 4 hours. Sosnovy Bor is a picturesque place on the bank of River Belaya. There used to be a children's camp and a rest home there. Now everything seems to be abandoned, there is no sign of cheerful life as it used to be in 2008, for example. I worked in Sosnovy Bor as child leader in 2004 ... read more

Utrecht 02/04, Luminosity before the Energy and Trance Energy 03/04 Preliminary note: Luminosity Before the Energy is held before the main event, Trance Energy (this year called Energy, I wasn’t there). More information about that will be in the first blog of this series. I will not give further information because I don’t know about anyone’s music tastes and care little about those tastes. I’m complete egoist about music and parties, I always go alone and immerse myself into the light and the rhythm. My initial mistake was that I thought 03/04 to denote TWO days of Trance Energy and somehow one day was left without a booked hotel, which, as I would learn soon, would have some heavily disastrous consequences. The second figure denoted the month, actually. On April 2 I had rather a long ... read more

28.03.2010 I cannot think of a better title for this narrative except the one taken from Hemingway’s book. Certainly, being in this city is a genuine feast. I spent only two and half days in Paris. Of course, one might spend the whole life exploring this city and its life, but I only wanted to have a glimpse of Paris for the time being. After having a most pleasant walk in Warszawa in the first half of the day, I flew to Paris. I arrived at about 5 o’clock in the afternoon. In the Charles de Gaulle Airport I asked for information in poor French, ‘comment va-t-il a la centre?’ or words to that effect. The woman at the information desk explained everything to me in great detail, though I seemed to grasp only the main ... read more

This is a story about how I fell in love with a country at first sight. I will try and write a short story about each photo. I will give numbers to photos and a short description. However, most part of that trip was not spent in Abkhazia… but in Sochi. We’ve already seen Sochi, so now my attention will be focused almost completely on the three days in Abkhazia. Let’s make four parts: part I - Arrival to Sochi, part II - two days in Abkhazia, part III - staying in Sochi, part IV - a whole-day excursion to Abkhazia. Don’t try to find Abkhazia on Google Maps. There’s only Georgia there. Abkhazia is a partly recognized country. I again will refer you to some trustful source of factual information to read about its history, ... read more