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different places spotted when travelling

China for westerners

Posted on 2012/07/16 by andy

Hong Kong, metropolis in special administrative area. It is neither completely Chinese nor British any more. For me it is well known gateway between China and the rest of the world, a place where you can get export goods for … Continue reading →

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Dashing across Pittsburgh, splashing through Niagara

Posted on 2012/06/15 by andy

Here comes my completely subjective view of Pittsburgh/PA, the city “between Chicago and New York”, best known to Americans from its steel industry history. A view taken from urban skater perspective, that is making wikipedia description more complete, as well … Continue reading →

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Ankara downhill

Posted on 2012/04/06 by andy

First impression of Ankara is like this: mix of Zurich, Prague and New York. Located in pass of high mountains surrounding the city, has most of its streets going up and down as you were in any Alpine city. Looking … Continue reading →

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Abu Dhabi on wheels

Posted on 2012/03/31 by andy

Another pinpoint on the map of Arabic world. Neither as much fun and tourist oriented as Dubai, nor as fundamental as Riyadh, yet something else to discover. One of newest mosques, world fastest roller-coaster or beautiful Corniche coastline, just to … Continue reading →

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City of sand dunes

Posted on 2012/03/27 by andy

Saudi Arabia is not popular target for tourism, especially Riyadh located just in the middle of dusty landscape of sand dunes. I got two flavors of my stay there: I could observe most orthodox enforcement of Islamic law and try … Continue reading →

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New York

Posted on 2012/03/10 by andy

New York City. My first time in this iconic city, one of most European cities in the US. Staying in the middle of Manhattan for one week in January I had only a chance to touch the tip of an … Continue reading →

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Misery loves company

Posted on 2011/12/20 by andy

London would be another short distance deployment place where I have been couple times already. Last week however stochastic processes of nature were not working for me. I faced unusual series of funny accidents that made my work week much … Continue reading →

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Into the wild

Posted on 2011/12/12 by andy

South Africa metropolises are more western than a lot of European cities. It was not what I was looking for. Taking advantage of Africa is to sense the wild life. You can read it as kingdom of animals but not … Continue reading →

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City of pissing boy

Posted on 2011/10/24 by andy

Try to picture yourself a little boy keeping his willie and pissing. Now make it either a sculpture, or chocolate figure, or a charm or key ring. Or a corkscrew with boy figure as handle and a spiral in place … Continue reading →

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Breathtaking Dubai

Posted on 2011/10/12 by andy

Couple years ago I was watching Extreme Engineering program on Discovery channel about sheikhs spending fortune on their fantasy, building snowy ski resort in the middle of the desert. Last month I could see the roof of Ski Dubai from … Continue reading →

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