Digital Wanderer

We live as long as we fly

Crimea — 14, Swallow's Nest, "At Mother-in-Law's" restaurant and a night with a hurricane

 2012-01-17

We turned off the sunny trail towards the Swallow's Nest. For some reason, I always thought it was a restaurant, but as the all-knowing Wikipedia tells us, there was one there only for a short time.

True, recently they restored it again, and then closed it again. A merry-go-round.

After reconstruction, in 2002 the building reopened for visits. Initially, it housed a restaurant, and near the walls of the palace there was a large Crimean souvenir market.<

In July 2011, the building was transferred to municipal ownership and an exhibition opened in it called "The Magical World of Arkhip Kuindzhi", where the painting "Moonlight Night on the Dnieper" is exhibited[1].

A moonlit night on a wide river, in the waters of which reflects the bright light of a full moon breaking through dark clouds. In the dark foreground, the silhouette of a windmill and the outlines of huts are visible.

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Crimea — 11, The Ai-Petri Pass Failure, and the Resort Town of Gurzuf

 2012-01-05

The plan for the next day was to drive up to the Ai-Petri pass in a van, and from there roll down on bikes through its 250 switchbacks. But the plans were crushed by a heavy rain right from the morning, and almost until the evening. In the end, we decided to drive God knows where, namely – through Yalta to the resort town of Gurzuf.

Along the way, we came across a barbershop. The proposal to get me a haircut was met with a storm of enthusiasm, I had to submit.

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