Saturday 28 February 2009

Notes from the Far East

Welcome back after another two month's silence that has become too usual and shows you that I did not have any New Year's resolutions. Anyways, to make up for that I have something special for my dearest readers this time.

I have something interesting to report, namely a trip to Minsk over New Year's Eve and the week after. This is the captial a Belarus, a state that has been a part of Soviet Union and is said to be the place where these times are still somehow alive by people taking a more nostalgic view and considered to be the last dictatorship in Europe by people thinking more politically. This just as an update to everybody who might be too ashamed to admit this is new information to them. I know that the vast majority of my readers is informed much beyond that.

Quite an exotic and exciting destination - although in the Daily Mail's Top Ten list of travel destinations of 2009 - and therefore, I have a lot to tell. To not be liable to procrastinating my dear readers too much, my stories will come in several episodes over the following days. So check back, there is a lot to tell from a very enjoyable trip with many new insights and anecdotes.

For today, I'll only dump the pictures and tell you to stay tuned when the first storytelling episode drops in, say, three days.

Minsk


Silichi


Babruysk


Travelling


Culture