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Saint Petersburg, High Resolution Panoramas

The Winter Palace, the Hermitage, a panorama of the Neva River. Convenient interface for viewing with Seadragon
The Winter Palace. The main building of the Hermitage from Palace Square. Winter 2012. 8005x1984 pix
Descent to Neva near the Admiralty. Winter 2012. 18948x2014 pix

Sun, 19 Feb 2012

Canary Islands. Maps

Four detailed road and tourist maps of the Canary Islands. Resolution up to 12Mp. Convenient interface for viewing with Seadragon
In addition to cities, villages, roads, gas stations and other necessary facilities are marked with the names of all the great beaches. There is a timetable of buses Fuerteventura and ferries between Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Individual maps of cities in Fuerteventura

Mon, 06 Feb 2012

Desktop wallpapers. Calendar

Winter wallpaper. Calendar for February - March 2012
Mikhailovsky (Engineers') Castle under snow. Palace of the Tsar Paul I. Saint Petersburg, Russia
Resolution - 1024х768

Sat, 21 Jan 2012

Desktop wallpapers. Calendar

New Year wallpaper. Calendar for January - February 2012
Snow-covered forest on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Russia
Resolution - 1024х768

Wed, 21 Dec 2011

Desktop wallpapers. Calendar

Christmas wallpaper. Calendar for December 2011 - January 2012
Lappeenranta, airport. Finland
Resolution - 1024х768

Wed, 23 Nov 2011

Desktop wallpapers. Calendar

New Calendar for November - December 2011
Italy. Bologna. Сentral square
Resolution - 1024х768

Mon, 24 Oct 2011

Desktop wallpapers. Calendar

New Calendar for October - November 2011
Sun through the autumn leaves
Resolution - 1024х768

Wed, 21 Sep 2011

Desktop wallpapers. Calendar

New Calendar for September - October 2011
Loviisa, Finland. Yacht Harbor
Resolution - 1024х768

Fri, 19 Aug 2011

Desktop wallpapers. Calendar

New Calendar for August - September 2011
Waterfall.
Resolution - 1024х768

Mon, 25 Jul 2011

Desktop wallpapers. Calendar

New Calendar for July - August 2011
Ocean wave. Village Arguineguin ("Quiet water"), Gran Canaria
Resolution - 1024х768

Sat, 26 Jun 2011

Canary Islands. Fruits and vegetables. Strawberry

Canary Islands developed agriculture. Tomatoes come in Europe ... Perhaps this is the most popular vegetable, available in good quality in local stores. There are still some cauliflower and garden stuff.
Fruits also have, but rather the original, from our point of view as...

Sun, 06 Jun 2011

Desktop wallpapers. Calendar

New Calendar for June - July
Strawberries from the Canary Islands
Resolution - 1024х768

Mon, 30 May 2011

Temples of Atlantis

A small sketch of the history of the Canary Islands
...One of these streets, the northern boundary of the former monastery, was named Maninidra, in honor of one of the former leaders of local tribes, who "was a man of high growth and strength... his wooden sword could bring down the man and break horse legs"...

Sun, 15 May 2011

Photo Gallery

In order to photography were not lost in the mass media, a separate gallery is made.
Preview shows not only the photo in full size, but located next to the text of the article that gives more convenience to search for.
Gallery is updated automatically.

Tue, 10 May 2011

Desktop wallpapers. Calendar

Begin to spread freely available calendars - Wallpapers.
Resolution - 1024х768 пикселей.
New calendars will appear once a month.

Thu, 28 Apr 2011

Canary Islands. Budget

Two new articles on budget travel to the Canary Islands. It's more affordable than it sounds!
Prices, recommendations, links, personal experience. Write in comments if you have something to add.
Plane tickets, moving to the islands...
Moving between the islands, hotels, shops and restaurants, entertainment...

Tue, 26 Apr 2011

Canary Islands. Review

Beginning of a great series on the Canary Islands. In short everything. Climate, ocean, mountains, steppe, food, shopping, roads, transport, sports, etc...
Canary Islands are located at 28 degrees north latitude, slightly north of the Tropic. Therefore, the sun is always high at the peak and heats very well all year round. A short distance from Africa (Morocco, 100 km), almost no effect because of the frequent north-westerly winds and ocean currents...

Sun, 17 Apr 2011

St. Petersburg in Photos

Updated page with photos of St. Petersburg. Description in English...

Tue, 05 Apr 2011

Charleroi - City of contrasts

One of the bigger airports, where a well-known fly Ryanair, named Brussels (Charleroi) (CRL). The full name is Brussels South Charleroi Airport. That is, seemingly, the Brussels. In fact, it is about 50 kilometers from Brussels, in Charleroi. And not in the city, and about five kilometers from the city to the northeast, in the suburbs. If more specific, it is located five kilometers south of its terminals, which have long been closed, and to the north still have to get on the road around the runway...

Sun, 03 Apr 2011

Florence in one day. Part 3

Before you climb to the viewpoint, I recommend to remember track where you came from. Especially if there is no GPS device. Otherwise will have to go back on the road, not intended for pedestrians. The weather today was lucky. Even on selling calendars often seen pictures of ordinary-looking gray. Climb to the top. The choice of restaurants here is small and located beneath us one of them. While were here, in front of a viewpoint on the left were a few that specialize in snacks and ice cream. Restaurant on the lookout. Classical types. Below us the river Arno and the Palazzo Vecchio. This species is particularly fond of shooting at night, with lighted lamps backlight. Mountains on the horizon...

Fri, 18 Feb 2011

Florence in one day. Part 2

Piazza della Signoria - the area in front of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Was the center of political life at the time of the Florentine republic. Now it is a tourist center.
Piazza della Signoria. Palazzo Vecchio and famous for the fact that its windows were hanged conspirators who wanted to kill Lorenzo de Medici. This story in detail is shown in the film Hannibal by Thomas Harris novel. David. Palazzo Vecchio...

Mon, 14 Feb 2011

Florence in one day. Part 1

Rail links in Italy allows, based in one city, "raiding" the neighboring cities. The technology is simple: in the evening planning a trip scheduled railway, in the morning we arrive at the station, buy a ticket from the machine. Within an hour or two before we reach the desired city, a day walk. In the evening we arrive at the station, take a ticket from the machine and back again. In all his travels in Italy technology malfunctioned only once - in the evening in a small town near Rome were closed all the ticket windows. The conductor on the platform said: "Go well", which was done...

Fri, 28 Jan 2011

Churches of Italy

Getting in any city in Italy, the first thing you go to church. Not to pray, oddly enough. Italy - is, above all its history. And the history of Italy's best preserved in her temple. In each city, their great variety.
The appearance of an Italian church certainly does not tell how rich it is inside. Often, quite the contrary: the nondescript exterior, the richer in...

Tue, 25 Jan 2011

Training vocabulary

English - Russian. Cards of words. Basic course. Materials for self-training...

Fri, 10 Dec 2010