Hi Folks! This, my friends, is a nuraghe. Nuraghes were built by Nuragic people; I do not think the similarity in the name of the people and the construction is a coincidence. Nuragic people inhabited Sardinia some 3000 years ago up to the second century AD. There are over 7 thousand nuraghes in Sardinia. I […]
Hi Folks! On times like these it is fantastic to see a military base that has been turned into a recreational area. There are no firearms in the legendary Mount Altura Fort (Fortezza Monte Altura). Hopefully this trend will become popular. I guess a fortress like Mount Altura Fort had to be built to protect […]
Hi Folks! Louise Bourgeois’s monumental spider sculpture MAMAN (1999) is a sight. This brown, furry, 9.2 meters tall, motherly figure with eight legs carries it’s unborn youngs with her in an egg sac. MAMAN brings to my mind my own mother who used to say: “If you have nothing nice to say, just zip it!” She was […]
Hi Folks! Robert Mapplethorpe said what I thought: “I want to see something I’ve never seen before.” And when I saw some of Mapplethorpe’s art, I also saw things that I had never seen before. And what you have seen, cannot be unseen. I guess that’s what bothers some uptight puritans in Robert Mapplethorpe’s art. […]
Hi Folks, I teamed up with these guys to fight the first world problems, and there wouldn’t be a more appropriate place to start the fight than the Center of the Universe, namely Times Square in New York City. Our motto is: Worst things first! In the shift briefing the following tasks were assigned. Iron Man shall […]
Hi Folks, I took my chances with the Agency and visited Washington D.C briefly. I could not believe my eyes when I saw this beauty. I always thought that my old pal, Viking Leif Erikson and my acquaintance Christopher Columbus were the first people to discover North America but surely I was wrong. I also thought that […]
Hi Folks! It was a bit chilly in Dublin; Madrid was mildly breezy; Tallinn and Warsaw were wintry; but St. Petersburg was just freezing. The Agency was on to me. It made me want to move my dancing feet. So I took refuge in Tenerife. Now the sun is shining and the weather is sweet. To the rescue, here I am in Canary Islands. And I want […]
Hi Folks! Or would ‘Privyet droog!‘ be more appropriate. Listen to the official soundtrack for the post here: RussianFrontier. Some claim that the image of the Wild East filled with countless assassinations is a myth generated primarily by western media and agitators in social networks. Well, this may be news to you but the Wild East is reality in St. Petersburg and to […]
Hi Folks! All the youtubers out there might know this already, but please let me tell you what’s going on in the photo and state the obvious: “Alright, so here we are in front of the, uh, elephants. Uh. The cool thing about these guys is that, is that they have really, really, really long, […]
Hi Folks! The Palace of Culture and Science is a gift from the Soviet Union to the people of Poland. And understandably its reputation is controversial, but in my humble opinion the building is magnificent. The Palace of Culture and Science is the tallest building in Poland and possibly the eight tallest building in Europe. The […]