I can’t say that this feeling is my heart is either love or hate … I don’t know how I feel about winter. It is cold and it is snowy – not exactly the way I think ideal weather should be. But there are numerous winter pleasures I truly adore:
What about you? What are your fav winter pleasures??? 
And I have one very interesting suggestion: is it cool and prestigious to visit the Russian Federation? A fiend of mine answered that there is nothing special about this country, but… I was still insistent and found out that:
Russia Holiday is not bad at all, because:
Visas are extremely important while travelling. A visa is a special document issued by a certain country giving a person a permission to enter the country during a specified period of time and for certain purposes. As a rule, visas can be seen inside of a passport, and sometimes they are given as separate pieces of paper.
Europe is big and popular among tourists, so European travel visas can be of great interest, but if you are travelling to more than one European country, you must think about Schengen Visa.
Nowadays, Russia becomes more and more popular country and it’s opened to world tourism. Really and why not? Russia has over 141 million inhabitants, diplomatic relations with 178 countries and approximately 140 embassies all around the world. Its cities are full of fabulous architecture, churches and other places of interest. That’s why it’s useful to know more about Visas for Russia.
Good luck and amazing travelling experience!
Dear friends and travellers, today I have made an exuberant title of my post, so now I feel the necessity to explain what it is all about. While visiting various countries I made 3 types of photos: photos with me as a main part of any shoot (sometimes I even succeeded to outshine really huge buildings :-)), photos with lively scenes, landscapes and stunningly beautiful places and the last category is about photos not the type will be likely to show up in a glossy brochure or site about tourism. Namely, these photos I’m going to show you, some of them are mine and some I have seen but failed to capture. So, please, enjoy!
The 1st one was taken in Egypt - it tells us: “No diving!” Actually, it was no use to, ’cause it was seen with the naked eye, this swimming-pool was not more than 0.5 m deep.
The Sochi 2014 Winter Games is a chance for the Russians and the Russian Federation, to prove - they are able of achieving great successes in both economic situation and sport. But, let’s keep our eye single, Russian sportsmen are not bad, and their school of figure skating is a legendary one.
So, the symbol of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games is still unknown. Some people claim it to be a Cheburashka or a Mammoth, others believe in Olympic Misha triumphal return. But, I want you to get acquainted with one more competitor - a glamour Snezhik. A father of this creature is Andrey Chesnokov, Snezhik is a non-official symbol of city Snezhinsk.
Snezhik is a close relative of a Snowman and a Big-foot. It was born in 1997 and occupied the 2nd place in the contest for the holiday symbol of Snezhinsk-city. But, this small funny white creature from snow, turned to be a very popular guy in Russia, so Andrey made cartoons about it and people even made a monument to Snezhik - people adore it. Snezhik is a happy small boy with an irresistable smile. He makes people laugh and their mood definitely goes up. This small boy even has 2 own sites, the 1st one is devoted to Snezhik - his life, adventures and friends. Also, there everybody concerned can find cartoons about Snezhik. And the 2nd one is about Snezhik promotion. Many people want it to be the official symbol of Sochi 2014 Winter Games.
The official contest are reported to be announced late in November. According to Andrey, Mammoth advertising campaign is tough and covers almost of all mass-media means. But, the founder still believes he and Snezhik has some chances. Andrey has no money and no VIP-friends, but, Internet-voting is already opened, so choose, please!
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