Digital Wanderer

После длительных мучений с настройкой Mono свежей версии, I’m back. То есть блог поднял. Для чего пришлось скопировать System.Web.Mobile.dll из виндового .Net Framework. Чудны дела твои, великое макаронное чудище.

Писать, правда, всё равно не обещаю. Про Турцию почти закончил, ну и чёрт с ним.

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In the end, we finally made it to our dear old hotel. But in the evening we decided to take another stroll around the hood. I was hopelessly hoping to still find some tea glasses, plus I needed to buy sweets for gifts, and just spend the remaining money.

By the way, as I already mentioned, Turks drink a lot of tea, it's strong and local. Turkey produces about 6% of the world's tea, and in terms of consumption, it's consistently in the top spots, on par with Great Britain. For instance, in 2004, tea consumption was 2.4 kg per person.  This probably explains why at the spice bazaar, a guy generously scooped me a massive amount of tea with a huge scoop; I barely talked him out of getting carried away. I drink a lot of tea, but I hardly drink more than half a kilo a year, and he wanted to pile on that much of a single variety right away. The tea, truth be told, is not bad, it has a pleasant, non-bitter aroma.

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Я вроде раньше видел это, но забыл, а сейчас мне напомнили.

На zl.lv есть просто отличные карты частей Латвии. Вот, например, родной город и окрестности:

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