The next country that I am going to visit on my way back home is Slovenia. There is less than 200 km between Padua (where I stayed for the night) and the border with Slovenia. But before crossing it I decided to make a stop in Venice, a famous city in the northeast of Italy.Read more

Arrivederci Sardegna! Bonjour Corse! The island of Corsica is 2.5 times smaller than Sardinia and belongs to France, though the locals call themselves Corsicans, not French.Read more

Right half a year ago, I rode my motorbikey across seven countries up to the capital of Serbia and there I left it. As always, Belgrade welcomed me with hugs from my friends, to whom I left my motorbike for safekeeping. They placed it in the company's office as an exhibit, washed, repaired and changed its battery.Read more

-Why Vorkuta? Why there, and even in February? - My friends' surprised questions suggest some more or less sensible answer. But there is no such answer. At 21.50 on platform 1 of track 1, the fast train Moscow-Vorkuta departs. The series "Journey to Vorkuta" lasts 40Read more

The adventures in Vietnam continue! Chapter 7: Hue - Hoyang. The ancient capital of Vietnam, the city of Hue, was not particularly impressive. The citadel is a city surrounded by a wall with several gates and a moat with water, inside is another complex - the emperor's residence, tombs, pagodas, gardens, cannons...Read more

After a pint of Spaten with a Bavarian sausage and french fries in the beautiful new Terminal C at Sheremetyevo Airport, we went to the gate to board flight SU 232 Moscow-New Delhi. Five and a half hours flight and we are in the capital of India.Read more

A new super bridge across the Dardanelles Strait impressed me with its scale! Although the Crimean bridge is actually four times longer, this one is different. It's the largest suspended bridge in the world that is supported by only two pillars, 334 m high each. Unfortunately, there was no viewpoint and I couldn't take a picture of the bridge from a suitable angle.Read more

We are travelling around eastern Turkey, and it seems that we are going through the human ancient history period. Kars, Doğubayazıt, Van are the cities, whose history goes back not even centuries, but millennia! Today we had lunch in the city of Diyarbakir on the Tigris River, and stayed overnight in the city of Sanliurfa on the Euphrates RiverRead more

Part 1. Georgia. A huge motionless column of trucks stretched for a dozen kilometers, pressed against the roadside. The column of cars was a lot shorter and moved slowly to the left side of the trucks. We passed both columns in the oncoming lane and stopped 30 m before the checkpointRead more

It took a three-hour-long flight by Turkish Airlines from airport Vnukovo to Istanbul, two hours waiting between flights, another 15 endless hours in the air, flying over Europe, Greenland, Canada, America and finally we landed at a huge airport in the capital of MexicoRead more