18 AUGUST 2013 – Moscow, Russia
Hanging out sans Jenia (sad face) in Moscow, Russia with friends at Strelka.
Hanging out sans Jenia (sad face) in Moscow, Russia with friends at Strelka.
On our last day in Albania we decided on a little day trip from Tirana to Kruje Castle, the bastion of the most eulogized national hero: Skanderbeg. Skanderbeg was an Albanian noble who led a resistance movement – with some success – to the Ottoman Empire in mid 15th century. Pretty neat historical stuff. The castle…
I hope y’all are enjoying my pun. Because I have been wanting to write it for a year now — basically ever since our first meal in Budapest. Because we ate like there was no tomorrow in Hungary’s capital. We ate as if we’ve been starved for the previous 11 months of our RTW trip….
Black sea resort in Russia or East China sea resort in Vietnam? Yes, we are in Nha Trang – also known as Russian town to the Vietnamese. Kind of cool for us, sort of like a walk down the memory lane when we were little and went to the sea in the summer. This was…
Made to measure is the thing in Hoi An. No one had to twist our arms into getting a couple of things made. Here’s Jenia at one of the multiple fittings we’ve had in the week that we spent in Hoi An. Ha Na tailor shop, Hoi An.
An utter disaster, second mile stop, a couple of kilometers outside of Munnar hill town, India.
A short stop at the very holy Alaverdi Monastery, dating back to the 6th century. Rahter beautiful and peaceful, the monastery also features a wine cellar — common for religious buildings all across Georgia. The country is known to have invented wine making after all.