Accept, gentlemen, the usual Russian pensioner can hardly afford a full-fledged tour abroad. So when it was decided to go to China, and with her granddaughter, contact the travel agency I did not. The visa can be issued at the border, and then - do not perish, there are buses and trains - on anything but leave.

Paris - oh yes, that's fine. Berlin - hmm, too bad. Stockholm - and since it is quite all right. Capitals of Europe, after all. But today we dedicate our report not to them, and the small European "bear corner" neturisticheskomu, but nevertheless very well known. How so? And that's it.

Tell me who you have not heard of the phrase "metlahskaya tile?" Everyone has heard, seen everything, the beauty of tile does not shine well. This very metlahskoy tiles, reddish-brown or dark yellow, were posted all more or less decent public toilets of our vast Motherland. That's just for this metlahskoy tile that we used to see, and so call it, has nothing to do.

Paustovsky recalled that his love of nature, "took строим лестницу своими руками possession of them since childhood."

Already in his early works, feels a special author's attention to the living world. But, as he himself admitted, not always able to "see and understand the fine." This is a unique flair author came to the writer after his meeting with the Ryazan edge. "When I started writing different - simpler, more restrained, began to avoid eye-catching things and understand the power and poetry of the most unpretentious and most ordinary-looking souls of things ..." - so says the writer.