http://travel.miltsov.org Mon, 26 May 2008 03:23:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en pictures by Sashatext by LaylaUlianovsk todayLocal dentistsOf course our trip would have been incomplete without driving the Uazik jeep, a source of local pride.The road backProtect the forest:A mother always waits... http://travel.miltsov.org/lenins-cradle-part-3/ pictures by Sashatext by LaylaThe local Youth Palace. During the Soviet Union Youth Palaces were established all over the country to offer a variety of workshops, ranging from visual or martial arts to science, et al.Vladimir Ilich Lenin was born a real Russian (i.e. with all the possible ethnic combinations ... http://travel.miltsov.org/lenins-cradle-part-2/ pictures by Sashatext by LaylaMy cousin Misha remains as vivacious and spontaneous as I remember him from childhood. One evening, he walked through the door and announced that first thing in the morning he was driving a car to Ulianovsk, the former Simbirsk, the birthplace of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, 950 ... http://travel.miltsov.org/lenins-cradle-part-1/ pictures by Sashatext by LaylaAfter visiting aunt Lida and cousin's Lena's family in Moscow, we headed to my eldest aunt Zina,where she lives in a house with her youngest daughter, Tania in Malino. Malino is where my grandmother had finally agreed to move to from Nikolo Titeli and where she ... http://travel.miltsov.org/malino/ pictures by Sashatext by LaylaFunny how the use of language can influence our experience of reality. If people are told repeatedly that green is black and that yellow is green, that's what they begin to see. In fact, there are numerous experiments in the study of psychology of language, where ... http://travel.miltsov.org/moscow-spring/ pictures by Sashatext by LaylaSomething fun always happens in Russia. Historically, it's been a place with much more action than any hollywood film. O.k. This doesn't compare with 1917, but it still was full of passion and contradictions, and all that is so wrong and wonderful with the human soul.Sasha ... http://travel.miltsov.org/celebration-of-the-vampires/ pictures by Sashatext by LaylaAh, Russia, forever acontrast with everything and with itself!When Sasha and Liouba left the States at the end of March 2005, from crocuses in full bloom and the beginning of the second harvest of grass they plunged into this:These pictures were taken by Sasha in his ... http://travel.miltsov.org/moscow-winter/ pictures by Sashatext by LaylaSenelga offered rides.Pavel, too, offered rides.Senelga is being trained for jumpingIra is a skilled rider, too.A surprise envelope appeared in the mail box that the kids have discovered. It was addressed:For KIDSBabjeInside the envelope, there was a mysterious map.Following the cluesTime to celebrate and eat ... http://travel.miltsov.org/return-to-babje-part-2/ pictures by Sashatext by LaylaA year later, we returned to Babje, whose population has grown, once again:The horse Senelga had room-mates in her barn: a goat with her kid.May has grown into a beautiful Collie.And little Afanasij, who was born the previous summer, joined the 3 older knights.When we arrived, ... http://travel.miltsov.org/return-to-babje-part-1/ pictures by Sashatext by Layla30% of Babje's human population:Finally, it was time to part. Sasha and Liouba were to take the morning train from Spirovo to Moscow and I was heading to St.Petersburg to catch the train to Helsinki and then fly to the Childhoods 2005 conference in Oslo which ... http://travel.miltsov.org/babje-part-6/