Around the World

We went to New art museum of Pärnu, which was interesting to me before, when I found it in the Internet chaplin.ee, there’s every summer happening – international exhibition “Man and woman”. This year it was already 18 this like exhibition with title “Man, woman and electricity”, where with their works were 39 artists from Estonia, France,Denmark, Sweden, USA, Chile, Finland and Belgium.

There was a though to settle down in Estonia west seashore with look on a sea, so that when you open your eyes for the first time in the morning, could see a sea. In the Internet I found a place with name “astronautics” (near lived place Jaagupi, nearest city – Häädemeeste). Reading the description, in soviet times it was known like legendary rest place „Vzmorje”, where rested well known scientists and astronauts, and first woman-astronaut Valentine Tereskova. Pretty interesting, isn’t it?

To be honest, the main reason, why we went to Tartu, was because to visit the science center AHAA. This place was found in widely advertised visitestonia.com, information was informative, and even in Latvian. There was huge number of inscriptions in Latvian in the science center, as well as audio guides. And here a question arises – how many museums in Latvia are able to provide information in native language to our nearest neighbors?

Saturday was very warm, so we thought that we could go to look on Old Riga not getting through tourist crowds, but from canal of Riga and waters of Daugava. Before it, we looked through canal wooden boat place kmk.lv with map and getting in in Bastejkalns.

For many yearsour hobby is to collect penguins. Collection is formed from penguins, made in different styles and techniques. We buy them, they are presented, and we create them ourselves.

Here you can see the mugs, which were brought from different countries. With each trip collection is growing bigger and bigger and becoming more various. There are ceramic, and glass and porcelain, and wooden clubs. Various sizes, volumes and shapes.

It has been often heard that bargaining for Turkish people is a popular national sport; this summer we made sure this is completely true! We visited and shopped in two bazaars in Istanbul - Grand Bazaar and Spice or Egyptian Bazaar. The first one of them, the Grand Bazaar is a complete craziness - streets covered with painted vaults for numerous blocks, thousands of shops that flicker in any possible colour, items stored in numerous shelves, talkative sellers (100% male) who talk to you in Russian and English and ask you to come in to immediately start "manipulating" with you.

The idea to go to a Turkish bath or hamam belonged to two ladies from our Istanbul trip group. As nothing like that was mentioned in the programme, we were not prepared for this idea, but immediately accepted it being driven by curiosity. Our guide Ibrahim immediately agreed to organize a trip to Suleymaniye Hamam in the evening, which is located next to Suleymaniye Mosque. The bath was designed and built in 1550 by architect Sinan. This is the only bath that men and women can attend together because it is just for tourists, locals never go there.

Monaco in area aspect is second smallest country in the world after the Vatican and one of the densely lived – approximately 33000 inhabitants on 1, 95 km2. It’s in France Riviera, between France and the Mediterranean Sea, near Italy. Monaco name is known with Formula 1, Monaco Grand-Prix event, because they’re going in city streets, where normally are going people and driving cars. Photo you can see lower – fastest stage, slowest turning.

It is true that you either fall in love with Venice or don`t accept it at all. I think that the first one happened to me.