Tallinn – Julia on Toompea, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. And another city I would absolutely love to revisit before this year is out, is Tallinn. I spent three days in the city in...
St Petersburg – Peter and Paul Cathedral, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Judging by the frequency with which people around me talk about St Petersburg, I should be going there soon....
Biennale – City of Venice agreement FREE WI-FI ACCESS ON THE LIDO The Biennale and the City of Venice announce an important agreement to allow the public, the journalists and the operator...
Even before I came to live in England I was told that in winter the entire country would lose its nerve. “We’re too soft, we Brits“, someone told me. “We cannot live under the ...
Some of you may already have heard me singing It’s a Heartache; but I have just arranged a video to accompany the recording, in which I used some of “lonesome” photographs by Boubat,...
The first time I heard, well, read about Richard Gere was in the 1990s. It was, I think, a feature in the Russian ELLE magazine. I didn’t see any of his films, but I was of age when it takes ver...
Declaration I have just discovered one of the most beautiful queries that landed someone on Los Cuadernos: “one man’s graffitti is another man’s picasso phrases” While you pond...
It’s time to tell you what happened to those two polls I threw at you in April-May. First, countries you thought I would visit in 2011. Most of you thought I’d go to Ukraine; the second pl...
I rediscovered this photo on my return to Moscow. It was taken at the State Historical Museum in 1999, where I and other students from our department of Medieval and Early Modern History went f...