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2010-06-08EN
Eski-Yurt Spring
This spring is designated in the updated 500-meter «Soyuzkarta» as the source of Eski-Yurt. The coordinates taken on the ground did not coincide with the map data a little — the captured spring is located 100 meters to the west than it is drawn.It is very easy to find it — if you walk from Lesnoye along the dirt road,…
2010-06-07EN
Roe deer voice
Yesterday, scouting out a new area for hiking, I wandered through the beech forest near Eski-Yurt. And in addition to three thousand mosquitoes and twenty ticks, I managed to meet a male roe deer (in the photo — a female). Moreover, I recorded the jumps and the amazing voice of the roe deer on video. I walked along the path…
2010-06-07EN
Hunter Thompson — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Honestly, I did not deliberately select books and the order in which they were read. But somehow, over the past month, I have read a whole bunch of «non-format» works with only a slight mistake with the chronology. «Fear and disgust» — adequately continued the selection, fully revealing the topic of dangerous drugs and drugs.For me, as a person who…
2010-06-07EN
Ken Kesey — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One of those cases when you read a book «after the movie» (I think I’m not the only one who had exactly this order).True, I saw the Oscar-winning adaptation of Mlosh Forman only once and a very long time ago, but as it turned out during the reading of the book, I remembered all the main plot twists. Therefore, the…
2010-06-05EN
Lev Gumilyov — The end and the beginning again
Gumilyov’s book interested me from the very first pages (I started reading it at the top Olympus ). I’ve heard about theories of passionarity and, in principle, guessed what the author would be talking about. But it’s one thing to guess, and it’s quite another to hear for yourself that … an awl in the ass is from God and…
2010-06-05EN
Henry Miller — Tropic of Cancer
Another book with a «prestigious» title and merry, as it turned out, content. If this continues, then sooner or later I will start reading the Old Testament in the original language — there is also probably a lot of interesting things hidden there.I read (listened to) Tropic of Cancer in travel around Turkey. Naturally, the tourists were interested in what…
2010-06-04EN
Milan Kundera — The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Choosing which book to read next, I am often guided by such an obscure concept as the prestige of a book, which usually manifests itself in «non-pop» and «alternativeness». Such books often resemble serious author’s cinema — frankly boring and understandable to few. Sometimes, on the contrary, a fascinating story is hidden behind a frightening name (this was the case…
2010-06-03EN
Fragments of the Turkish campaign.
I have no time to write a detailed report on the recently completed Turkish campaign (along the Lycian path). And I don’t want to be stubbornly silent either, and I want to share photos. Therefore, this time I will make my story in the form of short comments to the pictures — no chronology and completeness, just fragments of the…
2010-05-11EN
Vlad Malenko — Cheese fell out
If anyone doesn’t know, Vlad Malenko writes fables (and also plays in the theater and talks on TV. I listened to the audio collection of his fables «The Cheese Fell Out» and was surprisingly imbued. I used to think that fables are a dull and irrelevant thing. Now I began to understand this genre a little better and even singled…
2010-05-11EN
Isaac Asimov — Land of Canaan
The main fantastic works of Asimov were read by me with delight as a child, and since then my impressions have not been updated. But the author’s popular science prose has come into my hands twice in the past year («Words in History» and «Words on a Map»).It was thanks to this that I was already well acquainted with Isaac…
2010-05-10EN
Stephen King — 1408
King loves to write about writers and does it regularly (I still haven’t read Misery!). «1408», a story about a writer who exposes ghosts, was included in my playlist for two reasons.Firstly, I repeatedly started watching the film adaptation of this work, but for various reasons, I never watched it to the end. Second, King used examples from «1408» in…
2010-05-10EN
V. Kunin — Ivanov and Rabinovich, or «Ai go to Haifa!»
«Ai go to Haifa!» — light, emphatically entertaining reading matter. Unlucky heroes constantly find themselves in unrealistically bad situations, but their good hearts and pure thoughts help to find friends and get out of any troubles. An endless kaleidoscope of hits and a fast change of scenery is somewhat reminiscent of Akunin’s books about Nikolas and Pelagia.The plot isn’t engaging,…
2010-05-10EN
P. G. Wodehouse — Mr. Mulliner tells
P. G. Wodehouse’s collection of stories about Mr. Mulliner and his many relatives got into my player quite by accident. But as soon as I started listening, I realized that this is love. Good old England did not die with the beginning of the twentieth century. Eccentric aristocrats and their high-bred valets are alive to this day. They play golf,…
2010-05-10EN
Onotole in the cell!
It’s funny to meet an unusual person in an ordinary place. The president is in line at the checkout of a supermarket, or a TV presenter in a district clinic. We are used to the fact that the «stars» live in another world, and having met them on the sinful earth, we do not believe our eyes.I met Onotole in…
2010-05-10EN
«The Good, the Bad, the Ugly» is a spaghetti western
The term «Spaghetti Western» has been known to me for a long time. I didn’t really think about its origin and meaning, I just thought that it was called cheap westerns, where there are a lot of gunfights and little realism.And so, last week, my world shook. I learned that The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is also a…
2010-04-20EN
Day 12. On the border with Mexico
Where does Mexico come from in the heart of the Himalayas? And where did a corner of our Motherland come from (my address is not a house or a street, my address is the Soviet Union)?In my opinion, there is no mysticism here — a simple movement of souls.Route: Khangasar — Tilicho base camp.Traveled: 10 km in 5 hoursThe total…
2010-04-19EN
Turkey by car, day 2 — Around Olympus.
The owner of the agency did not deceive — the car was new. The odometer showed a mileage of 5000 km, and to further emphasize the novelty, the protective films were not removed from the doors. To be honest, getting behind the wheel, I felt timid under the strict gaze of the owner. Thank God, he didn’t run after the…
2010-04-18EN
What are you listening to? — Van Cliburn
«Operation «Y» and Shurik’s other adventures» I watched a million times. But only for the last 10 years, in the episode when Shurik comes to Oak for notes, I listen intently — I try to make out what it is that Oak is listening to. Either «Bon-Cleaver», or «Ban-Cleaver».And just today I finally figured out that the phrase can be…
2010-04-17EN
The state of the road to the Crimea
After a cold and snowy winter, the prospect of traveling from Kyiv to the Crimea by car caused me some concern. I was afraid, of course, because of the state of the road to the Crimea. On TV, they shouted that the road surface had «come down» along with the snow, that at the current pace, road repairs would be…
2010-04-13EN
genetically modified organisms
I don’t remember exactly when all the goods in supermarkets suddenly got «GMO Free» stickers. I generally try not to remember any bullshit and unimportant crap (I’m sorry).But I will remember this day for a long time. Today, for the first time, I personally encountered genetically modified organisms and the very first meeting almost cost me my life…
2010-04-01EN
Turkey by car, day 1 — Kyiv, Antalya, Kemer.
We approached the first day of the trip having adequately prepared: with a bad cold, inhuman fatigue and a clear understanding of the fact that the route was poorly worked out. The plane Kyiv-Antalya was expected somewhere around 7 am, so we hardly had to sleep. I came home at midnight (I was at Rammstein concert), while I shared my…
2010-03-29EN
Explosions in Moscow: what to do?
An explosion is something that is, by definition, abrupt and unexpected. Of course, filmmakers managed to accustom us to super-loud detonations and powerful clubs of gasoline flames, but it turns out that there is another kind of explosions that can throw us out of the cozy world of everyday life. And it’s not about the power of the charge, and…
2010-03-24EN
Day 11. Rooftop picnic.
The «noon» sequence begins again (from the word «half-day», although «noon» is also suitable). This is when you wake up early in the morning, start walking and bam! — It’s only 12 on the clock, and you’ve already reached your destination 82_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F» title=»Horror Film Final Destination» >movie of the same name completely spoiled the karma of this phrase).A long-standing tourist…
2010-03-21EN
Review of the Rammstein concert in Kyiv
ZhZhZhZh-D-D-D-D-ZhZhZhZh-D-D-D-Bah!!! — this is how the great and terrible Rammstein died down in Kyiv on March 9, 2010. Going to the concert, I prudently plugged my ears with cotton, and therefore for me it was a little quieter (zhzhzh-d-d-d …), but the general principle is still the same, and you can’t plug your eyes with cotton — THIS had to…
2010-03-20EN
Traveling around Turkey in a rental car.
Results of the trip. To satisfy the curiosity of the most impatient, I will start from the end — i.e. from the results of a trip to Turkey: It turns out that Tu
2010-03-19EN
Shutter Island
A quote from a classic. There is nothing new in Shutter Island, but the old is so well stitched and fitted together that there can be no question of the dust of
2010-03-07EN
Day 10. Song of the mountain mermaid.
One-day trips to the «height» with a mandatory evening retreat to the previous mark is an important component of the process of high-altitude acclimatization… Well, if it’s important, then you have to implement it. Today we are going to the radial to Ice Lake — almost one and a half kilometers up.Route: Braga — Ice Lake (Quecho) — BragaTraveled: 12.5…
2010-03-06EN
Altyn-tolobas
I read the first book about «The Adventures of the Master» and the second, and therefore many of the author’s surprises were no longer surprises for me. I mean the scandalous helplessness of Fandorin, already praised by me earlier.But I had enough attention to keep track of other bursts in my own reader’s brain. The most significant of them is…
2010-03-05EN
Based on real events
What does films and books «based on real events» have to do with reality? I was able to better understand the essence of the issue only after I myself tried to document the events of one month of my own life.The month was interesting, full of events, more precisely one
2010-03-05EN
Day 09 Braga treatment.
Altitude sickness exacerbates existing illnesses. My slight runny nose, under the influence of altitude, transformed into something globally oppressive. To combat the disease, I applied the treatment of Braga (a village near Manang) — I just spent the whole afternoon in bed in a hotel.Route: Lower Pisang — Humde — BragaTraveled: 13 km in 5 hours, evening radial 2 km…