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Through other countries and continents: first impressions and new friends in Cyprus

We are in Cyprus now. We bought cheap tickets from Kyiv to Larnaca at proper time of Wizz Air ticket sales, so we are celebrating Christmas by the Gregorian calendar 🙂 It’s cool here. 20 degrees above zero

“Football, business, night life”. Booking.com recommends Donbass hotels to the tourists without any mentions about the war

“Sport, business, night life” – that’s how the worlds’ biggest booking network Booking.com advertises Donetsk. The fact that Donetsk and Lugansk are under control of DNR and LNR terrorist groups hardly affects the content of the Booking.com. It

An isochronic map shows where to go, how long it took to get there – and what changes were on the way

In 1914 John George Bartholomew, the scion of an Edinburgh mapmaking family and cartographer royal to King George V, published “An Atlas of Economic Geography”. It was a book intended for schoolboys and contained everything a thrusting

Chile’s Atacama Desert – the driest place in the world – blooms pink mallow flowers

Chile’s Atacama Desert is known as one of the driest places across the entire globe, and when it was slammed with nearly ayear’s worth of water in a 12-hour period (0.9 inches, in comparison to the annual

Woman molested with lotion during flight from Dubai to New York

A woman flying from Dubai to New York City was molested by a male passenger who rubbed lotion on her body as she slept, according to federal investigators who say the suspect told flight attendants that the

TheGustibus: Electric cycle rickshaw with wines and food in Milan

TheGustibus (The Bus of Taste) is the new touristic atraction in Milan, Italy. It’s a pedal-assist electric bicycle that fits up to 6 people (5 plus the driver). It’s a bar that serves wine and craft beer. It’s also a chance

New record of the USA: more then 77 million international guests visited in 2015

Did you visit the United States in 2015? If so, you helped set a new record as one of 77.6 million visitors from around the world who traveled to the United States this year, a 3.6 percent increase from 2014.

Peñiscola, the pearl of the Orange Coast with a Castle of Papa Luna and artichoke beer

Peniscola (Peñiscola) is a cozy and beautiful Spanish town on the Mediterranean Sea, in the Valencian Community of Spain. Firstly, there is an old castle built by the Knights Templar, which is not only the main attraction

Force Majeure of La Tomatina 2015: participants of tomato battle crashed the Google car

  Apparently, all computer users noticed the original Google Doodle today. So Google celebrated the 70th anniversary of the biggest “food battle” in the World – Spanish La Tomatina. This year the famous fun in the town

Marilyn Monroe’s apartment in New York is now available to rent for $27,500 a month

Ever wanted to visit the apartment of Marilyn Monroe’s? Well now you can! And not only to visit it but to rent the real estate where the blonde icon lived in New York. That’s not a cheap