Like nomads, but with more stuff

There's a company that provides duty free goods to diplomats, the best deals are on alcohol and very occasionally we and others at the ...

In Pavillion Hall of the Hermitage Museum stands the golden Peacock Clock. 95% of the time it stands dormant, but on Wednesday afternoons (...

At the far end of 5th Sovietskaya, on a residential street completely deserted on a cold winter's night, stands Lapland. At least, the e...

We got lock de-icer (yes, this product does exist and even has what it is in helpful English) and the locks still won't work. SO now we...

Sounds like the beginning of a joke, but the joke is on us if anything. So our car has been having troubles with the locks - the automatic ...

Back in December the Consulate was offered and accepted a Master Class in ice skating taught by a former Olympic competitor and current coac...

The photo isn't great, taken with my phone and all, and this is seriously delayed as it was taken on December 24, but this is the sun ...

I've moved one more step closer to the possible eventuality of becoming a foreign service officer - I passed the QEP. Of course, the wi...

When you last saw the Mad-Zac clan we were returning from a vacation fraught with minor annoyances and major family bonding time. Turns out ...

My friend Heather inspired me. Her son is one month older than Zoltan and got his first haircut last week by her hands and the family hair c...