Are buses in Belarus apartments or working places? This question bothers me each time when I get on a bus here.
Continue reading “Bought your bus ticket already? Part 2: My workplace – My home?”
Of course going by bus is quite different in Belarus than in Luxembourg. However would you have guessed that it is a lot worse in Luxembourg?
Continue reading “Bought your bus ticket already? Part 1: Going by bus is comfortable – or not?”
The first problem going to a new country is often how to get the local currency in cash without losing much money in exchange offices. However in Belarus Continue reading “Belarus accepts more credit cards than many Western European countries”
This statement is true at least in one aspect, namely what jobs women do.
In Luxembourg city I got asked 3 times for money in 5 minutes. Many of them weren’t poor, but were trying to trick me into giving them money.
Continue reading “Everbody is rich and trustworthy in Western Europe?”
I’ve been asked a lot about the good life in Western Europe and whether I find it very bad in Belarus. On my travel to Western Europe this summer I decided to show how life is for usual people. It isn’t only heaven. Continue reading “Western and southern Europe are heaven?”
A 2 week trip through Belarus, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine gave me many interesting insights on these countries. In this photogallery you can see an overview of what I experienced.
From neat and disciplined Belarus to the invasion of the train by sellers on the Ukranian border over to chaotic Moldova, with it’s many people and much more diverse markets. Continue reading “Impressions from Eastern European countries”
I don’t want to start talking about living standards, cars, holidays or that you can get an icecream for 20cent around here. No, this time it is all about the money (itself).
I will upload each day a photo from the city. (click on the first photo to see the gallery) (Whenever it is possible, it will be a photo of the current day. However if I take a few interesting photos … Continue reading Each day a photo from the city
We all see photos each day and we might doubt their truthfulness sometimes, but often we see them as true retellings of what happened. However in most cases the meaning of a moment can be changed easily by just taking a picture at a slightly different moment. In this category I will collect such moments as well as photos where I myself wasn’t sure which one to choose, as both would enlighten a different perspective and possibly distort what really happened. Here 2 photos that give a first impression of what I mean. Those photos were taken seconds after each … Continue reading The Power of photos
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