Wind in the face, or six days skating on Lake Baikal

Prehistory In autumn 2006, I caught the eye of promotional fares of Siberia. Sale was very "sweet"! Particularly attracted its price (3800 USD. Round trip) tickets to Irkutsk. I'm tempted to buy tickets 6 of his comrades, and from October to February, we lived in anticipation of a winter lake. As we accumulate information about Lake Baikal winter I came across an article by Alexander Tokarev and Oleg Steps on their winter journey to Baikal ice skating. That it was a sensation! I was ecstatic! The idea of ​​traveling to skate for long distances I was very impressed. Firstly, it is fully consistent with my internal mood of the autonomous multi-day trip to beautiful places, and secondly, it was something new. And it is not for nothing that I have a few years earlier, plunged into the world of mountain and ski touring, pondering on this topic:

Veneto, Tuscany and its environs, spring 2009

My second trip to Italy. A year ago, managed to see places in northern Italy, on his way from Turin to Venice. At this time the plans were to call in Italy through the Alps from Munich to stay a few days at Garden City to look around Verona, then go to Florence, Tuscany travel around and come back again in Munich through Verona. Departure was scheduled on April 24, the return - 11 th May.

Iraq. May Kurdistan

Iraq. May in the Kurdistan region. All the same, go there, I decided to write - to share a purely practical information. Let us not speculate about go-no go, just practical and relevant to what they saw, heard about the prices, stay, movement and security.

How chayning attached to caravanning

Decided here to join the slender ranks and share the fresh impressions of the first trip with a caravan on the sea. Emotions and the rod, so get some desyatitomnik. And now in doubt, whether interested in this opus Dear fellow citizens, or just really say that he killed the butler? In short Poimena audacity to put the first part, and if you are interested then let down the rest. Chmyrev ask intelligently, in print terms.