Leaving the nest takes time

These two are still young and do not venture far away from the nest yet. They sit here just next to their nest most of the time and fly round a bit in small circles but get back into the nest immediately at the slightest sign of trouble.

Belarusian ice cream

Our neighbours' kids came over and brought us some ice cream. It is Belarusian.



It is good (but then to me almost anything edible is unless it is fancy stuff in nano-sized portions).

Belarus is definitely on my list of places to visit. Their President Alexander Lukashenko is probably the most successful post-Soviet dictator. As you may remember visiting Turkmenistan will have to wait for now so perhaps we can visit Belarus instead.

Dancing through the streets of Moldova with the indie folk ten-piece from Los Angeles

Berlin-based Israeli director Noaz Deshe — an acclaimed cinematographer known for his award-winning Ryan Gosling-produced feature White Shadow—talks about his video for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’s track “Wake Up The Sun.”

“Outside Chișinău, the capital of Moldova, you find time stands still — communism and religion are still the backdrop of an identity not yet conquered by the east or the west.

“It seems like any minute chain stores will spring up, but for now it is undefined by the powers that be. I was struck by the beauty of an identity not yet overtaken by what has become all - too familiar—the song struck that chord with me."