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A typical working evening.
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A restaurant near the beach that I run by every time I go running. Beautiful thatched roofs, well-built walls, well-maintained grounds. Looks like something you'd find in an unpretentious south-sea resort. Coincidentally enough, this is where my friends from the office took me for lunch the day after I took this picture. They serve authentic Ukrainian food. Great meal - see pictures from 5May.
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I've been running by this building since I've been here, but today I noticed the signs for the first time. The right sign says "MARS" - what, their Mars program is here? Then I notice the left sign: the abbreviation of the 4 Russian words, if you translate the letters to their phonetic Latin counterparts, is "MARS" (Cyrillic 'P' is the 'R' sound, and Cyrillic 'C' is the "S" sound.) OK, that was useful.
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This and the next picture are the Potemkin Stairs (see the May1 pictures.) From the bottom notice that all you see are stairs. 192 stairs, no breaks.
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Now the top of the Potemkin Stairs, but this time all you see are the landings (10 of them), no stairs. They were designed so that from the top you can't see the stairs, and from the bottom you can't see the landings. Even architects have a sense of humor!
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OK, The red sweater is a sure sign. I can spot a Stanford grad a mile away.
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