Traveling is not the most eco-friendly. No matter how we move, we inevitably encounter garbage (for example, non-recyclable packaging, plastic dishes in airplanes or shampoo probes at a hotel) or carbon dioxide emissions that cause significant environmental damage and affect climate change.
Spring distributes weekends and holidays, like a real gambler - first weekend on the Eighth of March appears with aces from the sleeve, then - a scattering of May holidays. And then there are plenty of sunny weekends, when you so desperately want to jerk from your hometown for the smell of distant countries. We have collected seven cities for rapid spring travel, which will help replenish the treasury of impressions and not spend a monthly salary for the weekend.
Each person has a list of what must be done in life: some plant trees and build houses, others jump with a parachute, others swim with dolphins ... But in all these lists there should be an item "take mother to vacation". No time to explain: just call your mom and tell me it's time to pack a suitcase.
What do we all do on trips? We exhale, walk a lot, look around, sleep a lot and eat a lot. The next three months are freedom for those to whom all these points are important: tourist flows return to the cities and offices, the velvet season is still on the coasts, and figs, pumpkins and something not grown up in European gardens.
In the first independent trip to Africa, I went to a year and a half. In 1991, my naive Soviet parents brought me to Sheremetyevo and put me on a plane to Addis Ababa. My grandmother and grandfather worked there at that moment. The family decided that the beginning of the nineties would be quieter to spend in the tropical thickets of the Russian embassy in Ethiopia.
Recently, we have been talking a lot about saving - and traveling in this sense is no exception. In difficult times from a financial point of view, rest seems to be a luxury, but one should not forget that even a small trip helps shake off the burden of problems and gain new strength. In addition, the journey does not necessarily end with huge expenses.
IN RUBRIC "BOOKMARKS" we tell about sites and online services - both useful and completely useless, but funny and amazing - which, in fact, should be added to favorites or added to the RSS-feed. The Storytellers We have already talked about InRussia, an English-language website dedicated to Russian culture.
We are anticipating the first snow with a shudder even in summer, but towards the end of autumn we begin to wait sincerely. Firstly, it is beautiful: whoever saw the Facebook tape on the day of the first snow will never forget it, so one can say that winter precipitation is celebrated at the federal level in Russia, like Japanese cherry blossoms.
Our heroines often tell us how they decided to make radical changes and moved to another country, and explain what difficulties they encountered and how they managed to solve them. In this material we have collected fascinating stories about moving to different cities and countries - Barcelona, South Africa, Tokyo, Istanbul and many others.
Every year we promise ourselves to plan our travels in advance — including New Year’s — but not. Our guide is for those who postpone everything for the last moment or have already come to terms with the idea of somehow experiencing in Russia the impending stream of instagrams from tropical islands. It is still possible to go on vacation, although, of course, it will cost more.
Once in the Himalayas, I watched a procession of pilgrims. Every eighty years, the entire village, from small to large, takes meager belongings, pipes and drums and goes through mountain villages to the holy spring, which is poured in hot streams a thousand kilometers from their native village. Dressed Indians travel twenty to thirty kilometers a day, spend the night in the woods and at the hospitable owners of the houses scattered in the Himalayan wilderness.
My love of travel and wildlife is from childhood. Parents - tourists from the generation of the eighties, for them hiking was a part of youth. If you believe the family photo album, even before I learned to walk, read and speak, I knew what a tent, a sleeping bag and a forest were. When I was seven or eight years old, my father carved out and sewed on my typewriter my first backpack — blue, rag, wet, with a plastic bag and flimsy plastic clasps.
Alexandra Savina SUMMER PASSED, BUT THE TRAIL TO TRAVEL DOES NOT WEAK. We have already told what to look for when traveling with parents and company, and now we share tips for those who are going to travel with pets. Whether you are going on a trip for the weekend or decided to move to another country, taking a pet with you - these are life hacking, which will help make any trip more comfortable.
As Alexander Genis once wrote, Italian cuisine is not lucky to become famous. In fact, the original peasant cuisine spent by the tourist moth generally has little to do with what is served in the standard catering under the sign "Italian". Where does the right lunch start? From olive oil, generously poured on coarse, preferably brown bread.
