One. Take our best congrats, my dear cherished readers, on the New 2015 Year, wishing you as much happiness as the sheep has curls on the skin. By Chinese Horoscope 2015 – Year of the Sheep (Goat) 2015. “I am a passive onlooker, I let bygones be bygones, Goodness brings me fortune, I believe in…
My cousin Vic from Montreal used to ask me a question :”Why my Dad Frank and his brother Viktor came to Canada?” The answer was simple : “They were young guys, who wanted adventure and travel, their dream was not to stay in America or in Canada but to travel to see the countryside, visit…
We’re on Honshu, in the capital city of Aomori, which faces Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait. We took a long trip by bus observing all streets, villages, farms, the Japanese countryside and came to the outskirts of Aomori to see the Big Buddha. The tourist guide told us: “Aomori Showa Daibutsu, also known as the…
Over Island Hokkaido seemed to be overcast all the way to its third biggest after Sapporo and Asahikawa city of Hakodate, located on Oshima peninsular. In spite of heavy rain we dressed ourselves in yellow raincoats for this occasion plus umbrellas for protection and looked pretty imposant, bravely stepped out of the ship. Hakodate looked…
Otaru is a city port in Shinbeshi, Hokkaido, Japan, northwest of Sapporo. The city faces the Ishikan Bay, and has long served as the main port of the bay. We walked around the area several times during our cruise stop on August 17, 2014. We were impressed with Otaru canal, both the historical sites as…
“Listen, Gleb,” addressed Artem to his 2,4 y.o. son. “Look around! And listen to the Nature.” The little explorer was for the fist time in the forest: all trees seemed to him to be giants, reflections of the light were changing every second. “Look, Dad,” “What’s this?” asked he, pointing at the sun ray on…
The next stop of the cruise ship was Russian town Korsakov on Island Sakhalin. In 42 kilometers south from Korsakov is situated the other Russian town Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Tourists with the Russian passports rushed immediately for free tour around the island and up to Yu. Sakhalinsk. The rest part of the tourist crowd was allowed to…
The harbor and fishing port of Kushiro is inviting us with lots of multi-colored masts on the fishing boats, embankment along the city, never freezing waters make the Kushiro port to be desirable for trading and the fishing industries. We arrived by bus early in the morning on August 14, 2014. We saw fishermen preparing…
Hi, “diamond Princess”, nice to meet you! The fifth time we were on the ship (before “holland America Lines”-2 times, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Carnival Cruises and now “Princess”. Each ship has an individual character, not judging by captain’s crew and staff. By “character” I mean “the life style” and manner of cruising, style of decoration…
“O’key”, said Olivia to Rapanzel while awakening in the morning after good and healthy sleep, the girls looked at each other, and smiled: so they slept in one and the same bed, on one and the same pillow, covering themselves with one and the same comforter, sharing everything equally as if two true sisters. “All…