Month: September 2004

Petra tou Romiou and Kurium

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Today I had a lot of driving around historical places. Olga’s two cousines (Tatiana Babenko and Natalia Babenko) came to Cyprus for a few days, so we are back to the guided tour schedule.

So, firstly we went ot Petra tou Romiou, which is also known as Aphrodite’s birthplace. It is a very photogenic place and the only thing which gets in the way is a crowd of tourists. But than again, if it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t go there today. Secondly, we went to Kurium. We started by walking around the ruins of the theatre and everything else. Then we went down to the Kurium beach. It was too late for me and Olga to swim, but girls jumped into cold water none-the-less. Tour finished with some traditional kebab (Olga and I didn’t have it for years now…) and ice cream in Limassol.

I have made a bunch of pictures along the way. All of them are available here.

Payphone Project

There are all sorts of hobbies out there. Guys at Payphone Project collect everything that has anything to do with payphones – pictures, stories, phone numbers, news announcements, etc. I am not that kean on payphones (especially in this mobile century), but some pictures are really funny.

Picture of the day

Night lights

On a busy day like today I don’t have a lot of time to make pictures. But I do try. Hence the two pictures – a white bear scared by my alarm clock hides under the sofa pillow and some night lights shot directly from the car while waiting on the red lights. Some left hand driving we’ve got here.

I hope you appreciate the effort. :)

Herluf Bidstrup

Lev reminded me about of something I’ve long time forgotten – drawing art of Herluf Bidstrup. Bidstrup is very well known for his comics, stories in pictures, graphical anecdotes, and caricatures. The beauty of his masterpieces is that they are equally interesting to people of all ages, nationalities, and epochs.

There are many websites with galleries of his work on the web. Here is one (in Russian, but you can click on any link). Here is another (in English, but again you can click anywhere).

A whole bunch of free TrueType fonts

If you need to spice up your desktop or add something original to your webdesign, check this page out. It has plenty of TrueType fonts to offer for free.