Crimea

Tsar’s family

The Livadia Palace where they held Yalta Conference was originally built as a summer retreat for the last tsar of the Romanovs in 1911. Russian revolution happened in 1917, so they…

Crimea

Attendance

This photo is in Livadia Palace where the famous Yalta Conference was held. These people are the attendance and the second person from Stalin is Gromyko. It is a familiar name…

Yalta

Easygoing trolleybus

The capital city of Crimea is Simferopol where the airport is and from there to Yalta in south is more than 80 km. The transport which connects these two towns is…

Yalta

Bristol Hotel

Our hotel in Yalta was Bristol Hotel. This year, they had their 150th birthday. For a long time, it had been the only hotel in the town. I imagined some kind…

Yalta

Many people

Our base in Crimea was Yalta. Yalta is famous for the Yalta Conference, isn’t it. But the town was full of people who spent their summer holiday here and at a…

Crimea

Applause

I do not know why, but I have always been attracted Crimea Penisula at Ukraine, so this summer we decided to visit there. We needed to change the airplane in Kiev…

England

Countryside for Londoners

The last destination of our London walk was Hampstead Heath. Well, it has got 790 acres, so it is big enough on its own as a walking course. There are many…

England

Affluent neighbourhood

Our walk in London took us to the affluent neighbourhood of Highgate. My friend said ” Here the house prices are most expensive in London”. Surely, the houses around here are…

England

The path which used to be a railway

The main path we took on the day we had a walk in London was the one which used to be a railway. It is called Parkland Walk now, but it…