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 WiFi in St.Petersburg - Cafe Soiree
Unfortunately couldn't find any website or info in English. The address is Zhukovskogo, 28; phone +7 (812) 272-35-12. You can check plazes or maps:
Opens at 9 in the morning, so don't take the train that arrives at 7 :) And while I was googling - some other nice cafes in St.Petersburg. |
Wednesday, November 23, 2005|
In Russia 23 Nov - 8 Dec
I'm hardly blogging anyway, but just in case: I'm travelling to Russia 23 Nov - 8 Dec. In Moscow most of the time, in St. Peterburg on 25 Nov, in Ekaterinburg on 4-6 Dec. If you are there and want to meet - let me know. More on: travel
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Thursday, November 17, 2005|
Slow reading and knowing questions
12/34. 12 hours by train in 34 hours – some sleep, first gluntwine this year and lots of talking in between :) Somewhere between Frankfurt am Main and Köln I detach myself from the book I’m reading and look around. Upper shelves are packed with black cabin-size suitcases; seats under then are packed with dark suited businessman. They look strange – not reading, not sleeping, not clicking around through emails – just sitting and staring into nowhere. I wonder if they are jetlagged or just spend the day negotiating big deals… I go back to my book. It’s a collection of interviews with travel writers, A sense of place, by Michael Chapiro. I picked it up in January, when we traded beaches of Waikiki for coolness and coffee of Barnes&Noble. It was patiently waiting for me – till last week. Since then I was steeling a bit of time here and there to dive into it. Fortunately this trip is long enough to let me do all of that – watching people, reviewing reports, sending kusjes and being able to savour the book slowly as food in a good restaurant. I enjoy this book – the themes – home and being far away, crossing borders and cultures, writing, being insider and outsider, facts and fiction. And the style – close and somewhat intimate conversations, asking very knowing questions coming from reading travel narratives that may be reveal more about their authors than about destinations. As usual I start seeing parallels with my own work. Thinking of absorbing details of others’ lives from their weblogs, sense of connectedness and somewhat intimate knowledge about them – and interviews that could touch themes and go to the depths not possible otherwise. More on: blog networking blog reading blog research travel
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Thursday, November 10, 2005|
The age of transition
I never knew it was called awkward age in English until today I looked for a translation of Russian perehodny vozrast. It doesn't mean the same! In Russian it means age of transition and usually used to talk about puberty and all things that come along - body changes, learning to grow up, being rebellious, searching for one's identity... In my family it's also used as a metaphor when talking about someone who is hard to deal with because of changes in his or her life acknowledging (hoping :) that it's not permanent, recognising the pressures and somewhat forgiving difficult behaviour. I was struggling to articulate what's going on with me, but I guess I should just call it the age of transition. It's about all things together - redefining work-life balance, accepting life far away from home, struggling with PhD, managing multicultural project, redefining long-term priorities and even figuring out how to fix broken information processing routines. It's not that bad, only too encompassing - my productivity drops and often I don't feel like answering emails or blogging. I just hope that I'm not as difficult as I was as teenager and that I figure out how to grow up soon :) [No need to worry - I actually feel pretty good - apart from the sour throat :)] More on: life metaphors no work-life balance
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005|
Back
I'm back wishing it would be much longer. Anyway, had a lot of warmth meeting family and friends as well as a lot of cold in St.Petersburg and Moscow (we've got the first snow in both cities! :) For more - St.Petersburg sighteseeing at Flickr:
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This weblog is my learning diary. Sometimes I write about things related to my work, but the views expressed here are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
Last update: 11/26/2005; 11:10:05 AM.
