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Our today week-end rout travel is: Cape Fiolent - St. George’s Monastery - Jasper Beach

Sure, the best time for this route is summer: sea-swimming at Fiolent is simply amazing!

To get to the point is quite easy: by autobus #3 from the bus stop at the “Balaklava Roadway, 5^th km” and from square “50^th Anniversary of the USSR” or by autobus #19 from square “50^th Anniversary of the USSR”. Get out at the bus stop “St. George’s Monastery” and follow the signs. Moreover, at summer time every 2 hours there is boat from Balaklava that brings the most lazy travelers right to the beach. But if you are a real traveler in your soul, you’ll pass this entire route on your own. And you will be rewarded with the unforgettable impressions!

Now we are at the bus stop “Monastery”. A dirt road is passing up, twisting among private cottages and finishing at the wide tableland. On the left you can see the St. George’s Monastery. For a long time it was in rather neglected conditions, but at the last years it is again restoring and re-building.

The first view-point is situated right at the top of the tableland more than 200m above the sea level. Perfect view: blue half-circle of the bay framed with emerald green trees. On the right the motley horn of the Cape Fiolent is piercing the sea. This Cape provides its name to the all region around it. Two rocks in the sea near it – The Orestes and The Pylades – are from black stone, but seems whitish because the deposit of salt on it. On the left you can see the golden cupola of the Monastery’s temple. And in the center of the bay, like a folded back of the huge animal, stands on the St. Appearing Rock. The big, 7 meters high, cross stands on the top of it.

Let me tell you some details about this place.

Café-gallery “MadTea-party”

 

Shifting broadcast channels this evening I was stumbled

at the play-by-play reportage from Bolshaya Morskaya str. #12:

“Attention to everybody! Hot news from the “Mad tea-party”! For the first time in our café a new hit: delicate cream puffs! You can think: just usual puffs, nothing special…

But! This is the cream puffs!!!

This is divinely!!! I’ve tasted it yesterday, and now I am strongly convinced:

the real luxury exist! 

Extremely successful combination of classic milk pudding and mascarpone cheese creates a new Universe – Universe of Unique cream taste! And you can mix this Universal puffs with anything you like: coffee, tea, even hot chocolate!”

The reportage was finished, radio station broadcasts some music, and I am

still thinking: should 

I order 5 Unique Universal cream puffs…or may be only 3.

Summer is coming soon, I should keep myself well-shaped!.. Look at the calendar, look at the thermometer and decide: summer can wait a bit, I’ll order SEVEN!!!

Painter Vladimir Kolomiets

In the today review I would like to introduce you another interesting person: painter Vladimir Kolomiets. He is Crimean by the origin – he was born at the settlement Andreevka (not far from Sevastopol). Now he lives and makes his works in two cities: Sevastopol and St. Petersburg.

May be some of our readers are known with this Master. When I’ve saw his paintings, it was a real “love from the first sight”, now I try to show to you my impressions. And all the more, on the July 12^th the exhibition of Vladimir’s canvas will be presented at the Information Supermarket “The Atrium”.

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Information Supermarket The Atrium

Sculpture exhibition by Andrew Vasilenko. Music accompaniment by Anton Paramashikvan&Den, performance of the Sevastopol writer Yuri Ostretsov.

As I have promised before, I’d like to tell you about very unusual exhibition-installation “SOCIAL FormART” by Andrew Vasilenko. It takes place at the Information Supermarket “The Atrium” at the very beginning of June. But my impressions of it are still fresh and bright, as it was yesterday! It means that author and all the team, who helped him, have created a very interesting performance, the real eye-catcher, and they succeed in its main purpose: to gives us something to think, to look around and to ask some important questions to ourselves.

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Needlework from Olga Solodukha

This sweetie Mauve Hare

is seriously going to present you his heart!

Take it and keep it gently!

Hare’s heart should be handled with tenderness and love!

Sevastopol Paintress Elena Melkova

Painting of spirit.

Spirit of nice music, late spring or early summer, fresh air and flower smell.

And a path…path to something interesting and magic...

Café-gallery “MadTea-party”

The carrot pie covered with orange icing is strongly recommended to eat very-very quickly. Why? Because you could be robbed…by this pretty porcelain rat :) 

And you can take, for example, Cha Hua tea “Tea-tree flowers”.

Photographer Alexey Shestakov

Alexey tell us the story about “The Lost World”:

When you hiking at the area of the pass “Baydarskie vorota” (Baydar gates) and start getting up from parking place, you need to turn right to the substation house and keep moving up by the pathway. There you meet a perfect viewpoint: from the one side you see Baydar Valley, from another one – azure sea, golden domes of Foros Church and massive rocks of Aj-Petri yaila. Under your feet will be the descent to the bed of so called “The Lost World”. What is this place? A gigantic tectonic fault at the level 75m had formed a rock bench, which altitude varies from 50m to 75m. Part of the old mountain had dropped into the fault and created a small plateau, crossed with huge splits. Ragged edges of the reared stone plate seemed pierced the sky and disaster feeling wandering over this place.

History reference:

In June and in September 1927 two seismic tremors of 8 points had shocked the whole Crimean peninsula. Epicenter of the earthquake was in the Black Sea 30rm from the seacoast. All along the shore were ruined buildings, destroyed communications, broken telegraph lines. A lot of people had lost their lives. In the Crimean mountains were a lot of landslides, which damaged local roads. Water springs are vanished and reappeared, even their chemical compound had changed. Gases were arising from the bottom of the Black Sea and these gases burned over the sea – such fire columns were hundred meters high.

In Sevastopol many houses were cracked; Post-office building and one of the city churches were seriously damaged. At the periphery also were a lot of landslips and slides. Aftershocks of this earthquake can be seen now at the Cheleby mountain near Foros. Slopes of this mountain are covered with the chasms and splits…

 To be continued. Please wait the next issues of us…