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Hey there. It's been bittely cold in Moscow since we got back from China. Several good and few bad things happened though. Good and bad news mixed up: 1)all my candidates from school 1359 (8CAE, 5FCE, 2PET) passed the exams they did in December!2) Katya gave birth to a boy Klim on Jan 6, who is my grandson's(Stas) son!!! 3) Marina, Stepka and Kostya visited us and Marina is going to Italy for spring holiday as a reward for good job!!!4) My car Mitsubishi Colt skidded on black ice and I crashed on pavement so it stopped and was transported to repair shop for mending.I'm ok but the car is not, serious repair is needed. That's all. Have a look at some funny pics I made at dacha in January

Hey there, it's been long since I last posted to my blog, but China is China. No Google, no Facebook or Twitter, only Bauedoo (it's similar to Yandex) and everything is in Chinese and under control or blocked. Not very funny... Anyway, our stay there (at Sanya "Narada Villa" and then "Narada Sanya") was very good. The weather was not very sunny but warm enough for swimming and playing tennis. We enjoyed beautiful sea (Chinese Sea) and the monkey island surrounded by fishing farms where people live and grow sea creatures. We got there by cable car, just as in Vinpearl (Vietnam), but Chinese one is smaller and more overcrowded. After 8 days we moved to Beijing, from +25C to -10C. It was cloudy, foggy and full of people everywhere. The hotel was good, but it's really hard to communicate with people there as they don't speak English at all. I even used riksha for trevelling from a shopping mall back to my hotel as it was impossible to stop