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Greek boat, responding to muffled gentle slapping of waves on board, gliding toward the shore. And the beach this fabulous country appeared ancient heroes. We returned to Crete with a tour of the island of Spinalonga, where the admired of the ancient Venetian fortress. Cretan shore … That's the way it should stick to it, rather than fly on an airplane, I thought. Crete is definitely a really fabulous island with a rich history, beautiful weather and perfect conditions for recreation. And the first tourist to the island of Crete can be regarded as Zeus. Turning the bull, he kidnapped a beautiful and brought it to Europe is here.

Divine calculation was accurate. Even finicky princess so struck by the beauty of exciting Islands, in the end she had conceived a love of the formidable leader of the Greek gods are not somotrya on the tradition of the muzzle is not never. So the rest of Crete, as they say, Zeus commanded. Now comfortable hotels built on almost the entire coast. In Crete, there is no industry, except maybe a small little factory for processing fruit. Cretans enjoy all year round the cleanest air and most transparent sea. By area, the island quite small – about three hundred kilometers in length and much smaller in width. However, it is washed immediately four seas: Aegean, Ionian, Cretan and Libyan.

Each of them involves some kind of a beautiful legend. But despite its relatively small size (especially for us who are accustomed to Russian gigantism), Crete is the largest Greek island with a rich and ancient history. Long before our era there developed a of the oldest civilizations of mankind – the Minoan. In those days it was born in Crete, history, culture and religion of the ancient Greeks. The Minoan civilization was killed by a terrible eruption, so that the memory of her remained only in ancient legends. But in the early twentieth century, archaeologist Arthur Evans, who conducted excavations at Knossos, has opened around the world remains of this ancient culture. Of course, in the summer heat better than spending time at the beach than in Nepal. Still, coming to the island, it would be a sin not to go on an excursion to see at least some of its legendary attractions. For example, the palace of Knossos, built four more goals ago. There were so many rooms that over time his name – Labyrinth – became a household word. And, as they say the ancient Greek legend, the Athenian hero here Theseus killed the monster Minotaur. Except Visit the ancient Knossos Phaistos, where the hill is spectacular palace in the capital island of the times of Roman rule Gortyn. History buffs will find white water rafting, and on this legendary island actually a lot of interesting places. But even one who is indifferent to the mysteries of history, in Crete will not be bored. Almost every city is ancient, but still active male and female monasteries, ancient fortresses. Anyway, every Cretan town so unique that any walk on it becomes unforgettable.

VIP-class hotels, as elsewhere in the world, are five-star apartments. As a rule, they are not far from downtown, and as St. Petersburg city vintage, it is often hotels constructed famous architects, is housed in the past or even the last century. In such a case the hotel management seek to maximally preserve the appearance of an architectural monument, down to the smallest detail, and At the same time to give as much attention to interior decoration of the building, refurbish it so that it meets all modern standards. As a rule, in St. Petersburg hotels VIP-class, all class rooms Junior suites and presidential suites or "Lux" – the only ones in the entire hotel. In the hospitality industry there is a notional breakdown of the year into seasons: low, medium and high, according to the demand for hotel services.

In During the "low" season, the influx of tourists decreases sharply, and room rates, respectively, are falling. For St. Petersburg this season is winter, except for New Year holidays and school vacations. In this time of year for hotels especially not empty – here come mostly foreign tourists to look at this "Russian winter", and to celebrate national holidays: Shrove Tuesday and Christmas Day. "Medium" season – a late winter – early spring or the end autumn – early winter. Especially in the offseason beautiful parks and gardens of St. Petersburg. In the spring, when nature is just waking up after its winter sleep and begin to swell the kidney, the first shoots sprout on the street, when it is not too cold and You can spend more time outdoors.

At this time the majority of tourists visit the suburbs of St. Petersburg: the city of Pushkin, with its magnificent Catherine Palace, famous for its fountains of Peterhof. Great number of parks are located directly in the city – a park near the church of the Savior on the Blood "and the Russian Museum, Summer Garden, and many others. "High" season for the St. Petersburg, however, as most resort towns, is considered summer. Despite the hot weather and not too favorable climate here a lot of people flock from near and far abroad. Here also comes the busy season for hotels in St. Petersburg. However, it is not surprising because it is summer, closer to mid-May, then begin the "white nights" – the phenomenon by which the city is literally packed with tourists. Almost all of three months, city hotels are filled to 100% of the tickets and rooms must be booked for several months. At this time it is very difficult to get into museums or on trips, so it is important that the room service to take care of mass cultural program for visitors. For more comfortable stay in the city is not a role played by choice of hotel, so before making a reservation should be carefully considered all the proposals and choose the hotel that most will like.

City Mukachevo (Map plan Mukachevo) has a long and glorious history. This is one of the most interesting pages in Transcarpathia. 1108 years have passed since the first written mention of the city. Mukachevo founded at the crossroads historically formed trade routes in the XIV century it was granted city status. The main attraction of the town is beautifully preserved and maintained in order Palanok castle (XIV-XVII centuries). The name of the castle comes from one of its fortifications.

In the ancient castle hill surrounded by a water moat, over the inner shore of which rose a palisade of sharpened logs – palankas. In 1633 the former residence of Prince Koryatovicha passed into the possession of princes Rakoczy. This is where the ideologue of the Hungarian independence, Ferenc II Rakoczi in the XVIII century. led a revolt against the Austrian emperor. His "city apartment" Ferenc II arranged in the center. Palace "White House" (XV-XVIII centuries) are easy to find in the tourist district.

His masters were the last column Schoenborn. This respected German race has left a noticeable imprint on the history of the region. For two centuries, until the arrival of Soviet power, he owned vast lands and palaces and major industrial enterprises. In particular, Count Friedrich Schonborn lifted and made famous in the whole of Europe Mukachevskiy brewery Podgoryanah. Pearl legacy Shenborn located in the mountains above the village Chinadievo that close to Mukachevo. This picturesque area they have chosen for his country residence. Sometime in the lush surrounding forests organized hunting, which attracts know with all the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and now live here visit the sanatorium "Carpathians". Inside the building, which has become one of the dormitories have been partially preserved the rich interiors. In the middle of the park – man-made lake. A small lawn in shade of oaks, it seems specifically designed to roll about on them in the autumn sun. Near the town of Mukachevo, Mount Red Hill is the northernmost area in the world where they grow tea. And by the way, the origin of the name the city Mukachevo: from the word 'flour' (as people suffered in the construction of the castle 'Palanok') from the word 'flour' (on the river Latoritsa was a huge mill at the time), the words' earth Munkacsy Pan "(Hungarian version of this title the city).

CARAVAN – Sarah In general, only in the center of Orenburg, I counted at least three mosques, one of which caravan – shed (Karuanharay), historical and architectural complex consisting of Bashkir folk houses and mosques. It was built in the first half of the 19th century by the architect A. Briullov. Caravanserai was built on the popular contributions as an inn for merchants and pilgrims, but immediately after opening the authorities began to use the building for their own purposes. It is Russia's only mosque building, designed by the Asian model.

Unfortunately, minaret and a spiral staircase, which once raised imams are now under restoration. It is expected that the building will be decorated 6 thousand tiles made especially for this monument. Historians believe that at the end works Caravanserai will be the most beautiful building in Orenburg (at least, so says 'omniscient' press). But even now, covered with forests, caravan – shed leaves a lasting impression. As always, the main hidden beauty inside. The octagonal domed mosque with a complex occupies a central position. The architectural ensemble is unique in the Orenburg region.

This explains the appeal of the author of the project to the heritage of oriental architecture: originality of the decoration the mosque arch facades, the types of ornament, color prayer hall (a combination of blue and gold). TRIBUTE. PARK FRUNZE But not only the 'legends of old times' cherish Orenburg, and the living memory of the victory in World War II. Not far from the pedestrian zone, 300 meters from the Gostiny Dvor is a park Frunze, where you can see the exhibition "Salute, victory!" (Free admission) – Technology wartime, 19 units of authentic military-historical monuments: planes, tanks, artillery guns. I'm a little technique that I understand my attention a little house with posters (something like the village council), next to the booth performance of socialist competition (still alive in our socialist past), and the distance – a figure close to the boy's cart, loaded with grain, with a placard 'Bread – Front'. The park is very clean, many colors, I think the kids there expanse. HOTEL 'ORENBURG' That's about all I managed to see in Orenburg, in the few hours that I was given destiny. About the house museum of the family, I will write later Rostropovich, and finally something about a hotel 'ORENBURG', in I've lived. The halls of each floor differed from one another on the third floor, for example, was finishing in style reminiscent of Baroque, and in the lobby on the second floor are a few works on historical themes: dioramas 'Clink of Orenburg "," Cossack patrols' and 'defeat of the White Cossacks'. The impression is that you are in the museum. In general, the memories of the town were very happy (and excited), maybe that is the lot of small towns? Although Of course, not so small and Orenburg, traces of globalization in the form of 'McDonalds' or retail chain 'Subway' there. Or, maybe it is spring with its warm weather, bright sunshine and tulips helped to keep only good memories?

Nevertheless, the Stockholm Old Town of course give 100 points ahead of Helsinki, Oslo and a similar new building north. At the end of the tour saw the changing of the guard at Royal Palace – the ceremony actually worked through and it looks very atmospheric and the old regime, after which the prize sat with Sasha in a coffee shop in the basement of a medieval house – they say that it is doing there best in town chocolate. Chocolate was really good. In the evening stroll around the city themselves, went to a restaurant gondola next to our hotel – restaurant is suspended from the bottom to lift the famous Catherine and enough high-class. Ate there a traditional Swedish dish – syrosolenuyu salmon under different sauces and cheese. Published for two of about 100 euros with wine. The next day we had planned to visit open-air museum Skansen and the children's museum Junibacken. It was fantastic! Our fine all the time shrieking with delight, the first in Yunibakene, then at Skansen. First – it's as animated world of fairy tales by Astrid Lindgren (which, incidentally, was a Swede), home of Pippi Long Stocking-, Karlsson on the roof, and so on. Honestly speaking, I got no less pleasure from the museum, maybe because I still remember the Soviet cartoons tales of Lindgren Skansen – is a huge encyclopedia of Norse life in full-scale, there collected more than half hundreds of homes, entire city blocks from the 18th century, museum staff are working in the bakery, baking bread on old technologies, which can be right there to try.

Start all over again (at least for myself) is not the first time. "Let's go" – the words of my famous namesake. Getting proverb says: "I do not have a hundred rubles, and a hundred friends!". So I very quickly found the basis for his idea to explore the area: just met with my friend and asked him to expand his service to the firm, disposing a base camp in a clearing Edelweiss under Lenin Peak. It was and is Victor Artamohin. He gladly agreed to be the organizer of the expedition to the area to meet the needs of paragliding.

Started simple, but such necessary work for the organization opening event. To be fair to say that from the paraglider I also received the support – both moral and material. Alexander Smolin as a holder of "our" site has agreed to information support, as well as just a friendly help and fought for my undertaking. I should mention my friend and partner of the Austrian Pierre Gasteygera – Paragliding shop owner in the picturesque town of Kessen, who helped me with the acquisition snaryagi. Next – a lot of friends who helped one way or another. A start, especially since so many people interested in this project, and more importantly – to believe in the viability of flights in the area of Big Mountain. As an example, Victor brought the story of the heli-skiing in Uzbekistan: once, when he and his partners decided to organize helicopter skiing, almost nobody wanted to come, but now reality is that all skiers lined up for two years in advance, and many eminent freeriders chosen our winter mountains.

With the phone in a hotel room to call anywhere is expensive – but if you call, all incoming calls – free of charge. To call for Turkey to cable, from Russia with cable phone – dial: 8 – 1090 – city code (for example, the region Antalya – 242) – the telephone number (seven digit) – for example 8 – 1090 – 242 – 1234567, and if the mobile, then 8 – 1090 – code of mobile operator (eg , 532) – the telephone number (seven digit) – for example 8 – 1090 – 532 – 454 64 96; To call a mobile in Turkey, from Russia with mobile – type: Code 9 Turkey, the mobile operator code (eg, 532) – the telephone number (seven digit) – for example, 90,532,454 64 96. CLIMATE. The climate in Turkey is extremely diverse. Central Turkey – the area of continental climate with relatively cool snowy winter, the western and southern coasts of the country's subtropical climate – warm and sunny from early spring to late autumn.

On the shores of the Mediterranean Sea bathing season starts in April and ends in November. HOTELS (should be). Before you stop your choice at a particular hotel – find information on hotel classification. Check out time Most hotels – 12.00 (night if your flight – you can leave the luggage in the baggage room hotel). Check in is available in vacant rooms at the discretion of the administration. The air conditioner, schedule functioning pools, water rides and other objects in the infrastructure of the hotel set his administration. Turkish cuisine.

Turkish cuisine is renowned as one of the best in the world and offers a huge variety of delicious dishes and drinks. Priority is given to beef and lamb. Traditional Turkish dishes: 'doner' or 'kebab'. Very popular 'dolma', which are used for tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and grape leaves.

In the area s.Privetnoe right of the road on a steep promontory you can see the dilapidated tower Choban-Kul, which means that Shepherd's Tower. It is surrounded by the remains of ancient buildings and defensive walls. It is believed that there was a Genoese castle lords (or Mafiosi?) Di Guasko brothers, known for their ferocity, unbridled brutality and unwillingness to obey Sudakskoj community. The tower can cover a wide and picturesque view of space. At 8 km upstream along the River.

Arpat, to the north is s.Zelenogore picturesque tract of Panagia, on which are mountain trails to p. Uskut and mountain passes. Celebrities. Academician Pallas built here a house with a vineyard and wine cellar, that he first described the 40 local varieties grapes, looking for the secrets of champagne. In 1804-1809 years. he led them to set up government-sponsored schools in Sudak viticulture and winemaking.

Academician HH Steven, the founder of the Nikita Botanical Garden in 1807 and until his last days long worked in Sudak. Was a frequent visitor at his dacha in Sudak marine painter IK Aivazovsky. Wrote the local landscapes, AN Benoit, AI Fessler, LF Lagorio, MA Voloshin. "Sudak motives' are not left without inspiration and composers. It AK Glazunov, A. Spendiarov. Over the years, came to Pike, Anna Akhmatova, Andrei Bely, Paustovsky, Alexander Green, Vincent Veresaev, Konstantin Friction, Vsevolod Vishnevsky. In 1927, visited Mikhail Bulgakov. New light. It's not just the name of the village. It really is a small country with special scenery, with its microclimate, for nothing similar vegetation and remarkable story. Audience. Tourists for a day come here from all the Crimea, but the 'natives', fans of the New World – a nation of informal, extreme and bohemian. Here, the legendary and world-renowned center of naturism. The most-most. Winery 'New World' was founded in 1878 by Prince LS Golitsyn – the founder of Russian champagne wine. Light building a medieval castle, topped by four towers, built LS Golitsyn for employees winery. He and his family lived in a house (the house preserved), and one of the buildings (near the 'castle') is the museum Golitsyn, now Museum of the factory of sparkling wines. Landscape Reserve 'New World' was created to preserve the unique pine groves relic and Sudak the natural park of treelike juniper. Mount Falcon (477 m above sea level), which resembles the shape of a huge bird with folded wings, attracts climbers from around the world. Very complex and climbing walls Grotto Golitsyn. Base divers divers 'Dolphin' in the bay Silent complements the extreme.

Increasingly, newspapers and news sections of the Internet began to flash messages to abolish the visa regime between Russia and the Schengen countries, but it is too early to rejoice! As the experience: the more promising, given the less! For us, simple inhabitants, such statements are usually just turn the ordinary difficulties in obtaining visas. But as they say, there is no smoke without fire and talk of cancellation is really under way, the power of holding a cup of coffee yes, no, no mention that the Russians are worthless in turns to stand with his hand out to Europe. On this inspirational note, most likely, the conversation ends! But look at the history of this tearjerker. Schengen Agreement June 14 this year celebrates its 25 years since it was signed back in 1985 only five European countries. Although only came into force in 1995, and at the moment the agreement was signed by 30 States, but operating at full strength only in 25 countries, this means that in these countries abolished border controls! At the moment, Russia, unfortunately, is not part of the 25 lucky winners, so that visas for all of us have not yet lost its relevance.

The countries belonging to Schengen is a single database, which hit our people not recommended, as the exchange of information in the Schengen countries put great! Basically, in this archive come those who have committed certain violations of the Schengen Agreement, including minor administrative violations. So if you ever violated the traffic rules and even paid the penalty, which in any case means only one thing – you are already in the database. Apart from anything else in this filing cabinet will wear a uniform and trivial failures such as 1C, 2C, and so on. So be sure that if you can self refer to any of the above categories, then you already figuriruete in this file cabinet. However, this does not close the door before you Schengen! The only conclusion to be drawn from all of the above – should be more careful and responsible Schengen Visa, for example, quite detailed information can be found here. Much better and more efficient not to save on visas and seek professionals with solid experience in this area, with happy to help you apply for a visa and all that noticeable painstaking process. Getting a visa to one of the Schengen countries depends on the political relations between our countries, so one country to obtain visas more easily, rather than in another, even if you have a full set of documents and a stable situation in Russia! But if you have a Schengen visa, the obstacles for you there, and you can safely open and close for a Schengen country! But knowing the breadth of the Russian soul and its desire to take, we want to warn you that it can end in tears. If you have something break in one country will know about it immediately into another and Next time think twice before issuing a visa! So let's cultural tourists, because the thrill you can get a more peaceful ways, and to make your vacation a memorable does not necessarily anything to break, and fight local nadegustirovatsya to memory loss! So we are with you just never visa-free regime can not see!

The world can only help awareness of what it means in reality a global human condition, in which we came. Michael Lightman crisis of moral values, the crisis in Germany – the most severe recession in its history. -The crisis on Wall Street. Loss Pension savings and capital, the collapse of the housing market and unemployment raises the question of economic survival. -The global financial crisis splits the Eurozone. The EU and the euro area developed at different rates, and contemporary crisis accelerates this trend. Leading financiers of the world have identified the cause of the financial crisis, a crisis of moral values, when lust has launched an avalanche of enrichment process irresponsible accumulation. In all that happens is the law of development, rather than blind fate or chance.

The laws of nature we can not change – we exist in them, so they must know and abide by – for their own good. Nature lies in man's development agenda which is the pressure that is felt as pain, or conscious of his understanding and complicity between man and nature. S. Balashov More: The arrow of time or cause of the 2008 crisis Learn live in the New World Message (NEWSru.com): Economists believe that the worst is yet to come. Prof. Economics, University of New York N. Roubini: "My assessment of losses of U.S. banks – 3.7 trillion dollars." "The global recession will turn into long-term depression, if not take the correct steps. " Ch. economist of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-Hebbel, Klaus Shmitdt: 'The fall in GDP in the world will continue in 2009 and even 2010.