Windows to Russia

Driving on Propane (LPG) is great! It is hard to explain but until you drive on propane you will not totally understand. The best that I can say is that, driving on propane is smoother and cleaner. The oil virtually never gets dirty. It stays clean and almost the same color as it comes out […]

I was sipping that morning cup of coffee and realized that humans have just put a real hurt on things in this last few years or so (OK, so maybe the last thousand years or so!). What, between the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Those two escapades alone have evenhandedly […]

The rules for getting a Russian visa of any kind need to be corrected to the better not the worse like what seems to be common here in Russia… The Russian government should review its strict visa policies and take more efforts to make traveling in Russia easier in order to attract more tourists, the […]

Where is the ‘reset’?

Sveta found the OutdoorLife article for me and I read it this morning while sipping my coffee. Outdoor life was my last and best subscription that I ever had on a magazine (It ended two months before I came to Russia!). I love the articles and since I was an avid hunter and fisherman. The […]

When Sveta and I go on vacation we like to take lots of pictures of what we see. This little video to the right is a group of clowns that Sveta and I found performing on the streets of Odessa. It was Victory day in Russia and Ukraine or also called May Holidays. It is […]

Much Ado About Nothing

Putin reveals outdoor passions in US interview: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke of his passion for fishing and extolled the virtues of the outdoor life in an unusual interview with a US hunting and fishing magazine published on Wednesday. “I value more and more what sport has given me, the habit of a healthy […]

Today as promised we will take a picture tour into the Privoz Market. It was said to have began in 1827. It is a buyers paradise and anything (I mean anything) can be found there somewhere… It seems that the main market is devoted to foods and then as the market grew it encompassed a […]