Pictures from DC
December 4th, 2009
A small album of pictures taken during our recent Virginia/DC trip can be found via the links on the sidebar or directly here.
Archive
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Pictures from Costa Brava
September 7th, 2009
It was a good summer.
Some of the best memories are now immortalized in the new album, accessible through the links on the right or directly here.
Pictures from Venice and Rome
June 28th, 2009
Pictures from China and Mini-Europe
May 14th, 2009
More photographic entertainment for my audience. Selection of pictures from Becky’s China trip and our recent excursion to Mini-Europe are now available in the Gallery.
Slow weekend
May 10th, 2009
This sign at a nearby supermarket parking lot kinda symbolizes the speed of my movements this weekend. Aside from seeing friends and watching football on the telly, I devoted the large part of the last two days to cleaning up some loose ends in the Travelog (the most recent articles on Kraków and Budapest are now complete, and the map has been updated to finally show a continuous darkened area stretching across all of Eurasia) and adding a few pictures to the Travelscapes. That’s the extent of the new content. We’ll be back to our regular programming soon.
Pictures from Cracow and Budapest
May 2nd, 2009
The picture album from our recent trip can be found here or by clicking the links on the navigation bar.
Pictures from Scotland
March 3rd, 2009
A small selection of shots made during my recent Scottish adventure can be found via the links on the sidebar or directly here.
Burlaki.com RSS feed
January 22nd, 2009
I know there is a handful of people out there who subscribe to my RSS feed via FeedBurner (which is where the “Subscribe” button on the navigation bar pointed to until today). FeedBurner was bought by Google some time ago, and they are gradually getting around to migrating their service to a different platform. I’ve heard about occasional problems with that from different blog owners who have already been migrated, and, to be honest, I never really needed the additional bells and whistles that FeedBurner provides, some of which, I understand, are no longer going to be available on the Google platform anyway.
Therefore, the Subscribe button now points back to the original feed. I’m not planning to get rid of FeedBurner altogether, so any of my distinguished subscribers who want to stick with that may not even feel a thing, with luck. But if you notice a disruption in the feed at any point in time, please consider re-subscribing with the original feed.
US destinations on World Map
January 19th, 2009
For those few who care, I have added pins and annotations to the US destinations on the World Map.
And another thing…
January 11th, 2009
Oh yeah, I also changed my old boring favicon to a slightly less boring one. If anyone cares to clear their browser cache to have it updated, it would make me happy.
A new look
January 11th, 2009
Don’t worry, you’re in the right place. I decided to redecorate, is all.
Comparatively loud colors and large fonts tired me after a while. So, I chose a more subdued look instead. Because the selected template was seriously different from the old one, it took me somewhat longer than expected to adjust it completely to my liking, which had a nice bonus of being another little programming project. I rarely get to employ my deteriorating skills otherwise.
Anyway. Please let me know what you think. While I am reasonably positive that all major graphical components appear fine in the new template, I certainly did not go over all of my hundreds of posts to check. If you notice something out of whack, I’d me much obliged if you let me know.
Thanks!
Burlaki World Map
January 7th, 2009
Burlaki.com are happy to announce our newest feature: The very cool annotated World Map. Made possible by the excellent Flash tool by amMap.com, it puts every place in Europe that we have ever graced with our presence onto the interactive map and provides short capsules of visit context and timing for every destination. Further links to available destination overviews within Travelog are provided in synopses.
North America and the Caribbean remain to be annotated next. New destinations will unquestionably be added as we continue our traveling exploits.
We’d love for you to check it out and tell us what you think. Any notes, corrections, suggestions can be left in the comment thread here.
Cheers!
Home photo shoot pictures
January 7th, 2009
Sometime before Christmas, Natasha organized an impromptu home photo shoot with our two eager models. We finally got around to publishing some of those shots. They can be found either via the links on the navigation bar or here.
On Travelog
December 26th, 2008
As I have mentioned elsewhere, for the last few weeks I have been chipping away at our old travel diaries, transcribing the observations about sights, museums, restaurants and hotels into Travelog entries. To my own surprise, I’m actually finished with that now. While I have what I think is a pretty nifty idea of what to do next with the Travelog, for the moment I do not have any outstanding material that needs to be converted into an online post.
I’ve no pretenses of being a travel journalist or, really, of having any talent for reviewing things. While the Travelog was meant to record our personal impressions of things that we’ve seen and tried, I know I err too much on the side of de gustibus non est disputandum to forcefully advise against something that left less than a positive impression on me (except, of course, a horrible meal somewhere). And for the things that I do like, I eventually run out of synonyms to nice/beautiful/outstanding/excellent/remarkable/magnificent/majestic/splendid/striking/stunning/resplendent/lavish/opulent to lay claim to any exceptional quality of my wordsmithing.
But what I started to realize as I drew closer to the completion of that body of work is that I put this together primarily for ourselves, as ready references for our future visits to the places that we’d already been to. Which helps to explain why there are so many passages of “we did not do this, but plan to do it next time” in various articles.
On the other hand, I certainly expect to continue to refer people who come to us with questions about what we liked at such and such destination to the online Travelog. So, anyone interested is more than welcome to look. And if you see anything there that helps you plan your next trip or anything that would trigger a recommendation different from mine, please, by all means, let us know.
Thanks!
Pictures from Paris
December 5th, 2008
A small collection of photographs taken on our recent getaway to Paris can be found here or via the links on the navigation bar. We only brought our small pocketcam with us, so the quality of some shots is a notch below than usual, but we figured we’d share them nonetheless.
Pictures from Iceland
November 3rd, 2008
A selection of pictures taken by Becky on her recent school-trip to Iceland can be found here or via the Picture Gallery on the navigation bar.
Pictures from Rochester
October 30th, 2008
A small album with pictures from a recent day-trip to Rochester can be found either via the links on the navigation bar or here.
Pictures from Tuscany
October 15th, 2008
After a relatively sizeable delay – apologies to all! – the pictures from the third and final leg of our grand summer trip have been added to the Picture Gallery (accessible either from the navigation bar or at the link here).
Enjoy!
Flickr added
October 7th, 2008
I unexpectedly got inspired to play a bit with a Flickr plugin, the result of which is the Travelscapes widget on the right (it opens into a page that displays the entire photoset, if you click on “view more” link). I’ll likely work on several adjustments, but I like even the simplest form of it. Let me know if something does not seem to work. More pictures will eventually be added.
Enjoy!
Questions, anyone?
September 22nd, 2008
It occurred to me a while after writing the previous post that there may be topics of interest to my readers that do not cross my mind on their own. Therefore, here’s an open solicitation for all manner of questions that people may want to hear answers to on my blog. Feel free to leave your question in comments thread or send me an email. Thanks!
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