Observations about cultural contrasts between Russians and Americans, Russian customs, and life for a Scottish American expatriate living in St Petersburg since year 2000.
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You can be a heating expert in your hometown! Can you answer these questions?
1. What is the latitude of your hometown?
2. For 1 and 21 December 2009, and 10 March 2010... compare day length and sun altitude at solar noon where you...
Petersburg Curmudgeon
Until the last few days of February, it was way below zero centigrade since November, with February record lows at -25 or so. I stayed in, walked the corridor for exercise, and sent Larissa, my strong Russian wife, to...
Try this today!
You can change much by subtracting a little. Spend a weekend without radio. Unplug the TV, music players, telephone, computer while you're at it. How would life be in the quiet?
Radio, radio, on the wall...
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Including valuable information about Heating Degree Days and Ice Thickness!
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Expat Cooking... ¹ Shopping, preparing and savoring of food, motivated by expatriate nostalgia for a former time or place.... such as the American cooking he remembers when a child. ²Expatriate attempts to replicate cuisine of his host country....
