The submarine base is constructed to withstand an attack with nuclear weapons, hence the blast doors. Emma is not constructed to withstand an attack of boredom, hence the bored look
Ukraine VII - Cold War July 29th 2009 I have touched the Button of Doom
We hope you are not getting too tired of us when we publish so many blog entries on Ukraine. We felt we had a lot to say and we had many nice photos we wanted to publish. But along the way perhaps we got a bit carried away because seven blog entries on vacation that lasted only three weeks is almost silly. We have yet something more we would like to wr ... read more
Europe » Ukraine Ukraine was the center of the first Slavic state, Kievan Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe. Weakened by internecine quarrels and Mongol invasions, Kievan Rus was incorporated into the Gran... ... read more
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