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Travel journal — page 21

First-person travel notes, city stories, photos, and videos from the Travel Map archive.

· Budapest

#Budapest

#Budapest And of course, I made it to the parliament at night!

· Budapest

#Budapest

#Budapest While I was walking in the park in the evening, I accidentally stumbled upon a castle. Not the dacha in Barvikha, but it's still not bad either))

· Budapest

#Budapest - beautiful and terrible.

#Budapest - beautiful and terrible. I really want to describe my first impressions of the city. Having been spoiled by the infrastructure and cleanliness of Western Europe (and even including Poland in this!), Budapest took me by surprise and seemed…

· Warsaw

#Warsaw

#Warsaw Today, I'm leaving Poland. Here, I met several of my acquaintances, chatted about work-related issues, and just spent time in a relaxed atmosphere. Generally, Warsaw is a comfortable city to live in. There are many convenience stores, restaurants…

· Warsaw

Train #Warsaw -> #Krakow

Train #Warsaw -> #Krakow We got completely ripped off with the tickets. They were first class, but turned out to be without reserved seats, and in the end, we were forced to sleep rough in the vestibule, literally in the gutter ))) UPD: we did manage to…

· Warsaw

#Warsaw

#Warsaw If you don't know what to give your friend, here's an idea - the Jews gave Warsaw a palm tree.

· Warsaw

#Warsaw

#Warsaw An old Polish cocktail: - Mountaineer's Dew 0.2 - Zubrówka 0.1 - Anti-freeze 0.1 - Dishwashing detergent 0.1 - Glass cleaner to taste Shaken, not stirred, so to speak.

· Warsaw

#Warsaw

#Warsaw Psychiatrist: Polish Dodo pizza doesn't exist, it can't harm you Polish Dodo pizza:

· Warsaw

#Warsaw

#Warsaw I have the feeling that I've come to a miniature Moscow, influenced by Prague. Russian speech is heard here more often than Polish))

· Paris

#Paris #Review

#Paris #Review I'm a bit late in summarizing my expenses for the past two weeks in Paris. I generally lived a relaxed life there, in a studio on the outskirts of the city, but close to a metro line. On weekdays, I mostly worked and only went out in the…

· Zurich

#Zurich

#Zurich I'm leaving Zurich today. I spent a week here, spent a lot of money, and basically did everything I wanted to do. The city is undoubtedly beautiful, convenient, and unique in its own way, but after Paris, it left me with rather bland impressions.…

· Zurich

#Zurich

#Zurich I'll leave it without comment.

· Zurich

#Zurich

#Zurich Suddenly, Zurich has two sister cities - San Francisco and Kunming. And the Chinese city essentially gifted the Swiss city this garden)) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Garden,_Z%C3%BCrich

· Zurich

#Zurich

#Zurich A walk through rainy Zurich. The city outside the center is certainly very hard to distinguish. In Paris, every building exudes a sense of pride and grandeur, but here, in the so-called capital, people with huge incomes, even by European standards,…

· Zurich

#Zurich

#Zurich Rostix? Or maybe a halal ZFC would be better?)) On the left, you can see the damn price tags of 13-17 francs for a burger at this authentic pseudo-KFC😂

· Zurich

#Zurich (more precisely, Schwyz)

#Zurich (more precisely, Schwyz) At the very top, a restaurant was waiting for us😋 But by the time we reached it, the mountain was again shrouded in a rain cloud, and we found ourselves as if in a vacuum at the summit.

· Zurich

#Zurich (or more precisely, Schwyz)

#Zurich (or more precisely, Schwyz) There are wild goats in the mountains. They're shy, but we managed to capture them in our shot!)

· Zurich

#Zurich (or more precisely, Schwyz)

#Zurich (or more precisely, Schwyz) A climb through the clouds. You can't see anything at all, not even the path from below, where you came from. But sometimes the clouds disperse and a fantastic view opens up.

· Zurich

#Zurich (more precisely, Schwyz)

#Zurich (more precisely, Schwyz) I pulled out the photos from my phone) In the first photo, there's a mountain where it's relatively easy to climb by funicular. Swiss cows are grazing there. In the background, you can see the mountain we climbed. You can…

· Zurich

#Zurich is really draining all my money.

#Zurich is really draining all my money. Today, I spent an extra ~40 francs (even though it would have been weird to save them), because I bought return tickets for the cable car and the train at once. In the end, the cable car was closed by the evening, and…

· Zurich

#Zurich

#Zurich We're going to the mountains along Lake Zurich.

· Zurich

#Zurich

#Zurich And from Karlsruhe, I took a train and arrived in Zurich in 3 hours. The city greeted me with not the best weather, but after the 33-degree South German heat, it was even pleasant in its own way) I'll spend a week here, and I hope to explore the city…

What conclusions can we draw from this?

What conclusions can we draw from this? Firstly, bureaucracy exists everywhere, and people are not very punctual, especially if there are no strict deadlines specified anywhere. Secondly, if you do nothing, you can get stuck for a very long time. Thirdly,…

A bit more about Taiwan, specifically about obtaining a Gold Card

A bit more about Taiwan, specifically about obtaining a Gold Card It seemed like the purely formal procedure of passport verification took me about as much time as the actual review of the application. My acquaintance went through this stage in about a…

· Karlsruhe

#Karlsruhe

#Karlsruhe View from the window❤️

· Karlsruhe

#Karlsruhe

#Karlsruhe The local U-Bahn (something between a tram and a train) and a photo of a German suburb - this is where we went to the lake to swim yesterday.

· Karlsruhe

Suddenly, there are quite a few decent bars in #Karlsruhe!

Suddenly, there are quite a few decent bars in #Karlsruhe! https://maps.app.goo.gl/GAutY5cafNNjPjWY9 However, the pricing in the city is completely unpredictable. We went to another bar - the cocktails were 3 euros cheaper, but the quality was just awful!

· Paris

#Paris

#Paris And here are examples of the private sector also within the city limits.

· Paris

#Paris

#Paris Random skyscrapers

· Paris

#Paris

#Paris The Parisian shops that sell traps and poison for rodents are something else entirely!

· Paris

#Paris

#Paris And here is the Louvre!

Ours?

Ours?

· Paris

#Paris

#Paris Chinese quarters, where I can get my favorite sweet teas😋. Why in Moscow there's only China Town, which has only a couple of Chinese restaurants and that's it(((

· Paris

#Paris

#Paris I'm not very familiar with African politics, but as I understand it, the context is roughly as follows: In Senegal, elections will be held in 2024, in which the incumbent president (since 2012), who won ~58% in the last elections, will be running for…

· Paris

#Paris

#Paris I was walking down a street in Paris in the evening and suddenly saw an arch (in the first photo). It definitely wasn't the Arc de Triomphe, as I had already seen that a week ago). As a cultural ignoramus, I didn't know that there are actually three…

· Paris

#Paris

#Paris A few photos out of context