This weekend I cruised to Riga with a bunch of good friends. Had a comfortable De Lux cabin on board Tallink Romantika. After a hearty breakfast on Saturday morning, we walked out on the town. One kilometer from the ferry situation, at the National Theatre, is a kiosk. We went and bought fares for local traffic, and then we stepped on board the tram. This is highly recommended. After only three trips we have been passed break-even and gone plus on the investment.
We managed a visit to the motor museum, which is just over an hour by bus from the center. We had lunch at the museum restaurant. I myself took a delicious beef stroganoff with potatoes and pickles. That only cost 40 rubels. The beer I drank to cost just over a tenner for a pint.
We took the number five bus back to the center. The bus stopped next to a Maxima-store, so we went in and shop till you drop for ridiculously low prices. Now we have a couple of bottles of Russian “champagne” in the wine rack, waiting for me to have the opportunity to consign them to the fridge when a friend deserves a glass. The bottles cost a few dollars apiece.
Although I am no fan of winter and cold so it attracts me to go north just to get something different. For example I have been to Iceland and I have been on a cruise in the Norwegian fjords and fascinated by the nature that are offered.
I have often longed to make a guest appearance on Svalbard or Greenland to look at polar bears, icebergs, whales and other things associated with these places. Perhaps it would be combined at some point with a study among Canadian Eskimos and possibly spending the night in an igloo with a polar bear trap that quilt? Does anyone know if this is feasible?
The problem with these trips to the north is that they are associated with high costs. A daily flights there, five days in Canada and a daily flight home. The same if you want to Svalbard. A cruise around one week where costs are at best 30 cardboard plus return flights.
Greenland Travel I’ve looked at is not entirely free. The cheapest you can get over a trip of ten days for the 25 cardboard but is actually flying.
So however much I may want to try such a trip, there is something inside me that says it is not worth it. Five days in Canada, or several months in Southeast Asia for the same cost. Based on that analysis, the choice is easy.
We make an abrupt roll here in a travel blog and leaving the pure white beaches, swaying palms and roaring seas and head off to northern latitudes. I commend my former colleague who published a magnificent story about polar bear safari in Canada. I read it with great interest and hope more of you did the same. If not, look through the Journal of the stack and save the last Saturday’s B-share before it is recycled.
When one is interested in travel, it is impossible not to be in contact with foreign languages. There are many beautiful languages in the world – and unfortunately also some who did not feel right in my ears.
addition to my own Scanian tongues I speak the American version of English pretty decent and can handle myself better than most in German. I can handle the Cyrillic alphabet well enough to read signs, etc. in Russian, and although I have not studied Spanish, I have picked up enough over the years to hold a simple conversation.
But one of those dreams where I is to learn a language that “no one” can be but are still useful in the world. I myself have realized that the most intelligent choice would have been Spanish but that can be anybody else. Thailand had also been fun to be able to boast, but it falls to the alphabet consists of 76 letters, where no one is near that resemble ours. Should I learn a language, I would be able to read and write it too, not just able to speak and understand a bit.
Then I found the idea of Dutch (Netherlands). Certainly not as prevalent in the world but quite original and also somewhat similar to Swedish, at least in terms of written language.
I have a Dutch friend on facebook and when she writes, you can sometimes understand without even an effort. So here she wrote the other week: “Winter ice waanzin, half day vrijnemen voor een uur effectieve surftijd.” One need not directly be rocket scientist to understand what she means but to be sure I will still translate: “Winter is a nonsense, take charge half the day for an hour of surfing time efficient.”
So it will perhaps take an evening course in Dutch to keep your brain in shape.
Here’s a list of languages which, in my opinion, not particularly beautiful:
first British English. Their protracted diphthongs makes me crazy. It is enough to listen to Oasis to understand what I mean.
second Finnish. For me it is incomprehensible that the Finns even understand each other when they talk.
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The month of November is not really a big shot weather-wise. At least not if you are on the Scanian latitudes. This time of year, the wind picked up, making the rain coming in horizontally and wetting one’s clothes no matter what kind of umbrella you have. Yes, some days it’s not even worth trying to use an umbrella. A gust of wind in the wrong direction, then you are left with the sheet itself inside out like a cone and a lot of metal ribs that look like Trees and Young Trees.
Lucky then that there are travel sites to console himself with. I saw just now at Travel Guide site that lists the world’s five best beaches. I checked the course through the list and stated that I had just been bathed in one of them. It looks to me as a healthy sign. It is good that the world is so big that you will never have been “everywhere”.
But I thought I’d actually bid on his own five-to-top list of beaches I’ve been to. To make matters more interesting I do contrary to the Travel Guide and the list starts with number five.
Not as many tourists resorts and free from any types who want to “be just like home” with food in the restaurants and the opportunity to buy at 7-Eleven. Do not move out of the hired sun bed all day is absolutely fine. There are plenty of restaurants located on the beach and the competition for customers is high, so prices are kept low. The waiters of the restaurants serve a full term and when it’s time to go home for the day, you pay what you ate and drank during the day in a lump sum.
Depending on which way the wind blows, it can sometimes be quite firmly by debris in the water. A big minus also for all the ten-year kids who are on the beaches and try to foist on us a lot of tourists mog. I happened to buy a papaya for a small girl (pigs expensive really, given that it had received four bottles of beer for the same price but I felt sorry for her) and immediately spread the rumor, which meant I had 15 kids around me within five minutes.
Rumor has it that the blind man who walks around with a guide dog and Stevie Wonder Glasses on the beach, begging for money is not really blind. Best way to check this is well to throw a toad handball against him and see if he dodges or not. Dodges he does not, I admit that the rumor is not telling the truth – and escape from the place. Handball can I download another time in this case.
To have a bath at one of the world’s most famous beaches is enough for many who need to get to Copacabana. Here you will experience the Brazilian beach life at its very best. If you want to suck in a Caipirinha or eat chicken, there are a variety of places. And it is never too far to the samba rhythms, beach volleyball or other gimmicks either.
It is crowded between Brasse chairs. In particular, shallow, it is not, and crystal clear water is hard to find anywhere else.
quiet and beautiful lagoon is hard to find. It’s no coincidence that the film “The Beach” was filmed right here. A perfect beach if you want to unwind and just relax for a few hours.
Maya Beach is located on the small of the two Phi Phi.
For example, the Bolivians are very proud of their Indian origin, the Irish celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in a tremendous way, the Scots are great Scots and gets mad if someone calls them for English and Maori in New Zealand does his part to preserve their old traditions and give their ancestors redress for what they endured during the colonial rampage.
However, there is a place on earth where people do not have any ties to his past, do not know their own history and no qualms about celebrating people in one way or another contributed to the cultural and historical identities become blurred.
To experience other cultures is perhaps the very best with the trip. People around the world are proud of who they are and where they come from. Ancestral heritage and traditions are reflected in modern times in a creditable manner.
Surely it can not to deny that it played out a real sunshine story in Chile in recent days. After 69 days in captivity, 700 meters below the surface were 33 people rescued from the San Jose mine in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The drama was witnessed on television by more people than the first moon landing in July 1969 and not an eye was dry when each of the 33 miners were welcomed out of the dark not only by relatives but also by the President of Chile.
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