Minsk
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Good roads, clear streets and frightened people - that was my impressions about Minsk. I was shoked by the level of inflation - 10 USD is approximately 28000 their currency. As to pleasent things, I like their sweets, it's realy delicious. I can't say ...
La ville
Je n'ai pas raconté aussi les émotions que j'ai retrouvés plus de 43 après... Ayant appris à lire presque toutes les lettres de l'alphabet cyrillique, je m'applique à déchiffrer les enseignes dans la rue. Et quel récompense quand finalement ...
Beautiful Women of Belarus
... the metro station, invited me into her home, cooked me a wonderful dinner and spent the evening telling me about all about Belarus and Minsk. I was really touched and had a splendid evening with her. The next day I met up with Karyna who showed me ...
Jan 22, 2012
Minsk City of Belarus The White Russia
Useful Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk Some photos to share, please scroll down. Have a good day. ...
YWCA of Belarus General Assembly
... and the shelter tour to illuminate US work on anti-domestic violence for this group of women leaders. The YWCA of Belarus has their main office in Minsk. They have other offices in their oblasts, which I am thinking is to similar to a county in ...
Khatyn WWII Memorial Belarus
Useful link www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatyn_massacre Some photos to share, please scroll down. Have a good day. ...
Minsk, Glorious Minsk
Hello everyone, Well me and Pete made it safely into Belarus after a lenghty night train. Minsk is not what i expected, everything is so clean its unbelievable!!! (its probably due to the army of cleaners dotted across the city!). The hotel were in is ...
Snowboarding @Logoysk, Belarus The White Russia
Useful Link http://www.beltourist.com/winter.html Some photos to share, please scroll down. Have a good day. ...
Conference Day
... . The 2nd act was a virtual tour of the shelter, which was graciously updated by my co-worker Debbi Cawthon, right before I left for Belarus.They asked many good questions, and I felt as if I had given them what they needed and wanted to know. Oh yea, I ...
Minsk, Weißrussland
Die Fahrt zum Flughafen Moskau dauert länger (1,5 Std.) als der Flug nach Minsk (1 Std.) Die Moskauer Stadtverwaltung scheint nur ein Verkehrskonzept zu haben: Mehr Strassen. Und je mehr Strassen, desto mehr Autos. Besonders am Freitag abends ist die ...
over and out...for now
... but my poor little old body was exhausted. Opening my window, there is a beautiful building that is a government house. In Minsk buildings. it is very common to have business offices on the street level and then apartment above. Most buildings are 4 ...
I am leavin' on a jet plane....
... where I was catching a flight to Vienna Austria. This time I was flying on Austrian Airlines. I must say, the Minsk Military and Police officers were very serious and sober. No smiles, all stern looking. It is rather frightening when ...
on to little piter..
... at the edges, 4am passport checks, gauges on the train were changed (although I slept through it) and a lengthy halt at Minsk in 35 degree heat was required to integrate carriages from the Ukraine. More talk, more catastrophe and a few rounds of 1 ...
Hotel fun factoids
... my son-in-law Rich let me borrow his electric plug adapter. He looked on the Internet to see what kind of electricity current Belarus has, determined the correct adapter, and sent me off. Well, you know things are never that easy for me....I tried to plug ...
retour
... rare de nos jours en voyageant d'avoir une réelle impression de dépaysement, comme on peut l'avoir en visitant Minsk. L'architecture socialiste y est pour beaucoup, mais aussi le fait que le système socialiste quasi totalitaire continue à fonctionner ...
Belarus
... fill out the customs card (instructions in Russian!!). The customs people were quite stern but didn't give us any hassle. Belarus was a crazy soviet style extravaganza. lots of concrete, armed guards and bleak surroundings topped off with a ...
Robbed
May 1, 2004 somewhere in Poland / somewhere in White-Russia After we all started waking up a little the Danish guy discovered that all his money and papers had disappeared. After surging the compartment thoroughly we went to the Provodnicas (female ...
Yartsevo to Minsk
... as here in Canada), they keep to the tradition of going to the memorials, which I thought was really sweet. We continued through Belarus, and on to Minsk! We had a city tour, and I was amazed to see how beautiful the city is! I didn't know what to ...
Last Day
... are just as poor on advertisements – every 4th ad is of the same company, every 5th ad is “For Belarus” or “Minsk – Our City” poster. The people in service protrude the same attitude of “What do you want?”. ...
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