Visiting English pubs
This post contains useful information and tips for visiting English pubs tourists.
Getting served
The most common mistake made by tourists is to sit at table and wait for someone to take the order. You have to go to the bar counter to order your drink, pay for it there and then in cash, and take it back to a table. You must go through this routine each time you want a drink.
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Angel of Salvador Dali Amanda Lear
Angel of Salvador Dali Amanda Lear
In the 70-80-ies of the last century photos of Amanda Lear graced the pages of fashion magazines and covers. While she was successful model and a disco diva. Her brilliant mind and beauty attracted many famous and influential men. One of the first who “discovered” Amanda was Salvador Dali. She was 19, she was charming and seemed to him an angel. Then she was known by her stage name Peki d’Oslo. Some researchers believe that the name of Amanda Lear – a play on words in French, L’Amant Dali, which means “lover of Dali”.
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Miss Russia-2015 Sofia Nikitchuk
Miss Russia-2015 Sofia Nikitchuk
The honorary title of “Miss Russia-2015” won the student of the Faculty of Humanities and Arts of the Ural Federal University Sofia Nikitchuk from Yekaterinburg. The girl admitted that she was confident in her abilities, and was going to win the competition. In addition to the title of the most beautiful girl in the country Sofia has received three million rubles and a car. Besides, she has the opportunity to compete for another two titles – “Miss World” and “Miss Universe”, representing Russia at the international beauty pageants. Sofia Nikitchuk graduated from art and music school, and now she is going to receive diploma of University with honors. The beauty queen says that she is proud of her education.
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Red sunset. Female beauty by Photographer Svetlana Belyaeva
Female beauty by Photographer Svetlana Belyaeva
“A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx”. Saul Steinberg. There is no doubt: the crown and the creator of Beauty – Nature. But the nature of inactivity. The language of nature is harsh and complicated and not for everyone is available. That’s why to talk about itself, to reveal to the human race in its way of complete Beauty, Nature has created Woman. Beauty comes into the world in a bodily and spiritual image of women. Svetlana Belyaeva – Fashion, Art-nude photographer from the city of Belgorod, Russia. In the focus of the photographer – eternal mystery of female beauty. Female beauty is inseparable from nature, it is its product and its sequel. All photographs by Svetlana Belyaeva are untitled, but they all relate to the well-known expression of Fyodor Dostoyevsky – beauty will save the world.
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Snowqueen of Texas Deborah Dixon. Photo by Yale Joel (1960)
Beautiful sophisticated blonde with pale face, Snowqueen of Texas Deborah Dixon, was a very popular model of the cult 1960s. Her beautiful face and perfect figure graced in fashion magazines, such as Harper’s Bazaar. In the photos of Frank Horvat model Deborah Wood Dixon is accompanied by famous European painters, actors, directors, writers – Marcello Mastroianni, Federico Fellini, playwright Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. She was a real inspiration for later cult Scottish director Donald Cammell.
Deborah met Donald Cammell in New York. He moved with Deborah to Paris, where she continued to model and where he began to try his hand at writing scripts. Now she has been a very successful international model, and, in fact Cammell lived for her money for a few years. After living together for ten years, their long relationship (by the standards of fashion and film industry) ended shortly before the start of filming “Performance” (1970). Cammell earned a reputation as cult director just because of his debut film “Performance”, costume designer for which was Deborah Wood Dixon.
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Kelimutu volcano on the island of Flores rarely visited by tourists
Kelimutu volcano – a mystical place tucked away on the island of Flores, in the ocean. It is rarely visited by tourists – because of the remoteness and poor infrastructure. After the death of volcanoes remain Scary and beautiful craters. Over time, they become overgrown, sometimes filled with sea or rain water, forming ponds and even lakes. Ancient craters of extinct volcanoes had mystical character. They were often equated with death and fear, with the gates to the underworld.
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I am happy every day, and greedy for life. Loving life Julio Iglesias
Loving life Julio Iglesias
If anyone had predicted young Julio Iglesias that he would become a great singer, and his name would be known in all parts of the world, he would have laughed in the face of such a person. While he loved playing football and was going to enter the professional team. But a car accident put everything upside down in his life. He spent two years in the hospital, and to develop the hands, the doctor advised him to start playing the guitar. Thus music came into his life. “The success worth hellish work, even reaching the top, never stop. And more. I would have achieved nothing if not my beloved wife. Miranda was sent to me by the Lord”, – said Julio Iglesias in the exclusive interview for the “Caravan of stories” magazine, Russia.
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