Travel Blog

I was told I should keep a travel blog to keep my eye on things that are worth sharing whenever I’m traveling. Well, I’m traveling all the time, like we all are: traveling through space, through time, to different places, across new ideas. Travelers used to spread the word to and from the outside world…

It is getting more and more difficult to be in denial regarding climate change – aka global warming. Droughts, wild fires, floods, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, typhoons, tsunami are spreading around the globe, “gone by the wind” of GHG emissions - raising concerns about sustainability of our current practices. This summer was extremely “fruitful” with these…

My beautiful home city, Saint Petersburg, features the so-called “white nights” in the summer to compensate its residents for all the “dark days” in the winter. The shortest night, with a 40-minute time interval between sunrise and sunset, is on June 22. Around the same time a major celebration is happening for all graduates –…

During the week in Moscow there was a record-long “pavement melting” heat wave. I was told it was a fourth or fifth year in a row when the summer in the city has featured such unbearable heat. The hundred thousands of buildings are not equipped with solar control glass and therefore allow all this heat…