During the last ten years of her life, my Mom was completely blind and deaf. The full blindness came after a long battle with the glaucoma e...

It stands on elevated ground, at the intersection of two streets. It has arched windows, cute semiround balconies, a decorative wood entranc...

The most famous and well-known russian songs such as Kalinka, Katyusha, Ochi Chorneye are best performed, to my mind, by the Red Russian Arm...

Humoristic postcard featuring Nessie with a long neck After all these years (since 1933), with so many film expeditions and sonar experiment...

Palm trees welcome at Ikea Greta Garbo, Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Bergman - famous swedish names associated with great movies, Alfred Nobel - ...

No one really knows where the good stuff, sold here at ridiculous prices ,comes from. No one dares ask how this merchandise from well-known ...

catching fish See the red spot on the steep rock? That's a young man dressed in a red shirt catching fish in the Bistrita (Bistritza) r...

Where I live, summers are very hot and humid, so I often try to escape the sticky reality by letting my imagination run freely to cool, icy ...

"Don't trust women and don't trust the clutch "- this piece of 'advice' was written on the back of a car in a vil...

Place - the medieval fortress 'Cetatea' (the citadel) on a high hill overlooking the city of Brasov. It has four towers, a canon, ...

Ashes, dust, will remain of you As this has always been the rule Nothing brings you into this world Nothing takes you away from it Nothing ...

Dracula - portrait Bran Castle on top, souvenir market at the bottom Dracula as a 'sex symbol' (postcard) Vlad Dracul, who inspire...

I'll be away for a little while, somewhere in east Europe, on a sort of small 'roots trip' . It will start with locating the gra...

The Herodeion , on the south slope of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece, is a stone theatre that has hosted many musical concerts and fa...

Ben Bernanke (the chairman of the Fed) is printing dollars like there's no tomorrow. Stanley Fischer (the Governor of Bank 0f Israel) ...