Personal experience
Often, ignorance of foreign languages and misunderstanding of local customs lead to misunderstandings, the most unpleasant of which are financial. A similar story happened to me in East Africa, from…
Personal experience
We solved the problem of lack of money with outside help, but we clearly knew that if the plan failed, we needed to contact the embassy, whose functions include, among other things, providing…
Travel
The editorial office of "Zagranitsa" has established a good tradition: every year one of our journalists makes an adventurous dash to Africa and climbs Kilimanjaro. A year ago, deputy editor-in-chief…
Travel
The road to Kibo is long, harsh, but not difficult. Is Kilimanjaro giving us a head start before the most important and challenging stage? Or is it bluffing, lulling our vigilance, only to prove who…
Travel
The road winds like a rusty snake, catching up with the numerous villages of aborigines lost among the horizons of the savannah. The Maasai are perhaps one of the most colorful tribes in East Africa…
Travel
One day at sunset of a working day, when the air temperature was relentlessly approaching body temperature and the fan was vainly shaking the long-dead air from thirst, cherishing the thought of an…
Travel
Kenya shocked us with the grayness and poverty of its capital. Our hotel Sixhundredeighty (“680”) was located almost in the center, next to the Kenyan National Museum, which has long needed…
Travel
The next morning we raced in a veteran safari Land Cruiser to Maasai Mara Park – a state reserve located 390 kilometers from Nairobi. Baboons and red gazelles occasionally crossed the road; we lunged…
Snow-covered streets of the Old Town, where medieval Scandinavian architecture houses coexist with typically German ones, the businesslike concentration of central streets turning into the main…
Auto tour
Life is full of unexpected accidents, and anything unpleasant can happen to anyone. Almost every driver sooner or later has to learn to replace a burst or flat tire on their own, and sometimes…
Auto tour
A car gives a feeling of freedom and independence. If you have your own car, you will not need to adjust to public transport schedules, waiting for the right bus for a long time at the stop or…
Technology
One could list at length all the functions that a modern computer is equipped with. Of course, first and foremost, it is worth mentioning that thanks to the computer, each of us can easily and…
Technology
The development of catering is gaining momentum every day. This is due primarily not to the novelty of the field but to its convenience and mobility. The idea itself is not new – something similar…
Everyday life
Unlike the south, poverty is far less widespread in northern Europe. Poverty is almost invisible on the streets of Scandinavian cities, and the numbers confirm this. Only 10-12% of the population of…
Everyday life
Latvia, a country with a population of two million, suffered greatly from the crisis. But even before the crisis, the share of poor in the country's population was the largest in the European Union…
Everyday life
Education is becoming one of the first victims of poverty – not only in Latvia or Germany, but also in Southern Greece. One of the oldest members of the European Union (since 1981), Greece still…
Money
Residents of Germany still keep billions of Deutsche marks in their piggy banks, writes Russkaya Germaniya. And experts are seriously considering the theoretical possibility of returning to the…
Immigration
With the start of the new year, the Greek government announced its intention to build a three-meter-high fence on the border with Turkey to prevent illegal migrants from entering the country. In…
Everyday life
An example of an entire nation that ran up debts in better times and suddenly fell into poverty is Hungary. In 2008, it experienced a sharp drop in the value of its national currency, bringing the…
The hotel industry today aims to create the most comfortable conditions for each guest. Accordingly, the task of hotel management becomes attentive attention to all aspects of this issue, which is…
Everyday life
Europe's poor are not like the poor in developing countries. Nevertheless, as Expert notes, their life is hard and humiliating, and only an African homeless person could truly envy it. To understand…
Everyday life
Since joining the European Economic Community in 1986, Portugal has remained one of the poorest European countries. Poverty here is visible to the naked eye – in slums without running water or sewage…
The past year was marked by the appearance of a whole series of landmark new products on the gadget market. In June, Apple, known for its smartphones, released a new device – the Apple iPhone 4. And…
Immigration
Among immigrants in Norway, there are more unemployed, as well as those receiving social assistance and living below the poverty line. Therefore, a number of experts argue that the government is not…