Archive: December 1st, 2013

Today is the first day of Winter … in just a month’s time it will be New Year – the biggest holiday of the year. The place basically closes down for several days  - virtually all the shops close for New Year’s Day, January 1st, even the Narodniy supermarkets which are normally open all day […]

Sunday, December 1st, 2013 at 07:00 0 comments. »

People often ask me about how I keep track of all the special days and anniversaries that feature in my postcards … and the answer is that I try to keep a diary of them. Actually, the diary has a lot of other entries … but here I have extracted the entries that have some […]

Sunday, December 1st, 2013 at 00:05 0 comments. »

During November 2013 the range of topics covered in the postcards included the following topics:

Sunday, December 1st, 2013 at 00:01 0 comments. »