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Volvo ocean race

Monday, 29. June 2009, 20:32:54

The Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread Round the World Race) is a yacht race around the world, held every three years.
Race was finished in Snt.Petersburg for the first time!
8 best yachts of the world took part in this competition.
Yachts passed 37000 sea miles and were in 12 ports all over the World.They had all during this race: pirates,icebergs,storms....It was the most hard race during the all history of it.

They visited in 10 countries on five continents.

They had not an easy time and spent 9 months on board the yacht!

Our city was happy to be the final point of this race!
How could we not go there and see all by own eyes!
This place was waiting for yachts.There was built a mooring for them...A lot of people gathered on the banks of Neva river.

Snt.Petersburg met guests with its usual weather,humid and sad,and even heavy rain a bit later.

While we were waiting for yachts to appear we watches a lot of small yachts,ships and boats floating along the river

Our bridges open for navigation at nights,and they haven't opened during the day in years, or maybe centuries.Now it was a day to rize bridges during day.It was really beautiful!

The parade of members of this race was leadered by yacht that was presented to our country by Great Britan :smile:

A last the first yachts appeared.The salute rised over the bridge.Welcome to Snt.Petersburg,dear guests!

There was set fire on the columns.It is a tradition to light fire on the top of columns at holidays in our city

The yacht "green dragon"

Ericsson 3 :smile:

Telefonica blue

The most beautiful yacht Puma!

At last all yachts arived...and the members of the race steped on the ground...the russian ground :smile:


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Comments

Akamu 30. June 2009, 17:22

Pretty photos. They had to deal with pirates?

Yulia 30. June 2009, 19:25

I do not know what exectly happened,but yes...I heard about it.

FIFINELEB 30. June 2009, 20:08

As a matter of fact it was a very dangerous and hard voyage. The skippers were very courageous. They weren't sea-sick ,I suppose.
It was a great feast like in the time of Peter the Great. Very nice photos,Yulia. Kind regards to you.

Yulia 30. June 2009, 20:59

I cannot even imagine being on board the ship or yacht for 9 months!really impossible.They had no water and used salt one from the ocean.5 leters for a person every day.Not too much.I am afraid of huge waves.Last time when we were in Egypt on yacht we returned back in storm...it was beautiful,but very frightening...and I cannot say that I were not sea-sick :smile:))

Bharat Raj 1. July 2009, 00:31

I have not travelled by sea, i fear water as i dont know how to swim.:frown:
Beautiful photos Yulia, they are awesome.:yes:
you have so much to see.:smile: :heart:

Yulia 1. July 2009, 02:39

Hi Bharat :smile: Pics of Alex,not mine,but I was near by and watched all myself :smile: It was heavy rain and only he used camera this day.I was just covering my head from rain by coat as forgot to take umbrella :smile:
If it was nice weather-pics could be more bright!
Our city is very beautifu,and it is always a lot to see and show here.Come and be my guest :wink:
You must learn how to swim! It is a pleasure not compared with anything,maybe with flyght only... :smile:

Dr. John v. Kampen 1. July 2009, 19:18

Swimming is really easy, Bharat. Just start doing it like dogs do to see it for yourself. The main thing is to never have your feet below your head, but far away behind it. That gives much 'lift' in the water....



Nice pictures from Alex! Well, I remember the Cape very well. We spent there a wonderful time at the Waterfront and beyond.

:up:

Yulia 1. July 2009, 19:45

The thing that surprise me every time I see it-the swiming snake!I just cannot understand how can it be that such a "heavy rope" swim without any legs :smile:))

Bharat Raj 2. July 2009, 01:24

Thanks for the invite Yulia.:D :heart:
i wud love to visit your country, sometime in the future...And might be your guest.:yes:
i really have learn swimming.P:

Yulia 2. July 2009, 02:16

:smile:Welcome,Bharat,any time :smile:

Dr. John v. Kampen 2. July 2009, 08:17

Yulia, apart from the 'volume' and length of a snake, replacing a certain volume of water and hence creating upward floating power, they use a very special characteristique of water: surface tension. To test this you may create a needle that can swim to prove my point. Just do it and be astonished. However: when the needle floats and you put a drop of soap in the water the surface tension disappears.
Insects also can walk over water, but the same applies: one drop of soap and .... blurp blurp blurp - they drown.
:cry:

Bharat Raj 2. July 2009, 08:28

:D

Yulia 2. July 2009, 09:54

no! i think the reason is other one.i saw a snake,it does not swin over the surface,its body is under the water and wet,only head is above.
As for needle...i knew it can float but neverheard about soap ,i will come home and try :smile:

Dr. John v. Kampen 2. July 2009, 16:29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCVkSYL_q-U
Convinced? See it sink when the tail is below the head. It floats when it is stretched out in the water. Yes, a snake may swim partly under water. But there is something to that. When YOU stretch out in water you feel this upward force (Archimedes, remember?). Even if your head is above and your body below the waterline. BUT imagine you dive say 10 meter/30 feet then it might occur that you get 'negative lift': you sink like a brick, due to compression! A famous point for scuba divers and their weight-belt that must be calibrated for that. I used to dive and know what happens when you have to much lead on the belt! You might need your emergency float vest (the inflator; taking care of what can happen between your legs when it blows up, haha! Auwww and that under water!) or throw off the weight belt (costly!).

Yulia 2. July 2009, 19:28

Very nice video and very clever answer.Thank you!It seems that you are right now.Yes...at last I can understand why snake swim! :smile: It was a question of my life. I have some more questions that do not know how to answer...:smile:

Dr. John v. Kampen 2. July 2009, 20:41

...I have so many questions... But feel free... There are many friends here able to come with some good ideas!
:cheers:

Yulia 3. July 2009, 03:07

ok.Nice idea.I will ask you one more thing.I never could imagine an endless of the universe....we see only ended things in our life.The sea has shores(we do not see them,but if we travel by ship we'll see them),the air will end some place we do not see,If we even see an endless line-we just think that it goes somewhere and...here is again the same question about endless universe.I just canot understand how it can be.
If we a going around the Earth-it is endless,we can make so many circles as we want,but we'll pass the same places...it is not the same.And if to go the streight direction...leave our planet,leave our Galaxy...go forward...what will be there?
For example my room seems an endless for an atom,but it is not endless for me...and it is too small for elephante :smile:
Maybe the same is with universe?Maybe we do not know what it there far away and say that it is endless..?What do you think?

Dr. John v. Kampen 3. July 2009, 03:56

Wel, uh, yes... The 'heavy stuff' is here that answers some of the question. Since the WMAP probe scientists know our Universe is flat! Not a saddle, not a globe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhlsh2cPjGw Here is that WAMP.

Hope this helps asnwering your question!
:D

Yulia 3. July 2009, 04:16

lol...John..it did not make all more easy :smile: A lot of those bubble universes...but what about cyberspace,is it endless?

Dr. John v. Kampen 3. July 2009, 15:52

Simple test: pull the power plug... It will end immediately (without UPS).

Dr. John v. Kampen 3. July 2009, 15:52

Simple test: pull the power plug... It will end immediately (without UPS).

Yulia 3. July 2009, 17:05

lol...no!i am not speaking about internet:)

Dr. John v. Kampen 3. July 2009, 21:03

Cyberspace will become very different from what we know now, I think. Now it is mainly a 'all for one' communication system. My guess is that we will get to P2P (with all its consequences, then it now already is difficult to get your old-fashioned ISP provider in the mood for Torrents - most of them kill their speed and continue to do if their noses are bleeding for commercial spam that they let go for their turnover). Internet itself already is divided in a 'dark web' and other less known 'vehicles' like the (dot)mil world. But that is not what you mean, I think.
:hat:

Yulia 4. July 2009, 03:06

lol..to be honest I was speaking not about electronic world at all.I was speaking about this huge empty space where all galaxies are situated...
but if speak about internet space is interesting as well.
It is such a huge world that you will never see and use all.I think mostly every person has his own amount of sites and pages he visit from time to time or every day,or every hour...and visit and serf other huge part rear,only to find something or when he has nothing to do.So,we limit out internet space ourselves.And it is limited only by our time.Time here is a mane thing that you depend on...and it is very few!

Dr. John v. Kampen 4. July 2009, 03:57

Yes, there is hardly time to ...sleep and so on if 'Internet is done well', haha.


:wink: p: :yikes: :ko: :whistle:

Yulia 4. July 2009, 04:00

:lol: ..you understand :smile: :rolleyes:

Dr. John v. Kampen 4. July 2009, 04:11

p: :D :devil:

Yulia 4. July 2009, 07:09

John...calm down :wink:

Dr. John v. Kampen 4. July 2009, 14:29

....yes, Yulia! But, pffff, it's hot here...

Granada, Spain Weather Forecast

Difficult to calm down without a glass of delicious, cool water!

:coffee:

Yulia 4. July 2009, 15:31

Hope water is not a problem there?:smile:Maybe cold beer is better? :smile:

Dr. John v. Kampen 4. July 2009, 16:10

We have water... near the Sierra Nevada in Granada.


But a good beer is always welcome, f.ex. Alhambra Gold !


:cheers:

Yulia 5. July 2009, 02:34

Never tried this one.We were in beer house yesterday,i'll show you pic later,may join our compeny: )

Dr. John v. Kampen 5. July 2009, 04:24

Alhambra is tmho the best real Spanish beer comparable to German beers brewn with the 'Reinheits-Gebot', like Andechser Helles that I find one of Bavarias very best beers! You must ask your 'Cervezería' to see and get a few bottles of both to verify!
:beer: :beer: :sing: :beer: :ko: :beer: :faint: :lol:

Yulia 5. July 2009, 04:48

Thank you,when i will go to Spain-will ask for it for sure.I need to write down not to forget the name :smile:

Dr. John v. Kampen 5. July 2009, 04:59

:yes:

Yulia 5. July 2009, 05:18

:smile:
we always try national food and drink when go somewhere.What about food to recomend?

Dr. John v. Kampen 5. July 2009, 06:16

A nice Pizza Marguerita? Or some fine Chopsui perhaps? I would like to try some Borscht...!
:chef:

Elias Yemreli 5. July 2009, 08:38

Beautiful great pictures from St. Petersburg :up: Thank you for sharing with us :smile:

Yulia 5. July 2009, 21:31

Hi John :smile:
At last I can se pictures! What a wondeful castle! Where it is?Very beutiful...and those montains behind! It deservs to be a picture!
We ate Pizza Margarita in Bergamo, Italy.It was reall very good! And we asked for another one :smile:))
As for Chopsui ,never tried it...so...I have some wonderful minutes to try something good in future :smile:

Yulia 5. July 2009, 21:33

Hi Elias.Glad you liked pictures.Do you really live in Russia?Have you ever been in my city?If no-you must!

Dr. John v. Kampen 6. July 2009, 06:35

That 'castle' in Granada is the world famous Alhambra...!!
You MUST see that once in your life time as well as Granada City. The nights at the old Arabic quarter are so unique. That aside from the Andalucian beaches, cities like Sevilla and Cordoba, where European civilization started about 1100 CE.
:yes:

Yulia 6. July 2009, 07:21

you invite?:smile:

Dr. John v. Kampen 6. July 2009, 08:01

I would if I could... We have moving intentions.
:cry:

Bharat Raj 6. July 2009, 11:41

hi :smile:

Elias Yemreli 6. July 2009, 11:46

No, but I'm moving there in one month. My most probable destination would be Novosibirsk :smile:

Yulia 6. July 2009, 19:49

Novosibirsk?huh...it is far from
here.If you will change plans for Snt.Petersburg-call me :smile:

John...it is always so..ha-ha...

hi Bharat :smile:
how are you? it is cold here....+5 at night...

Bharat Raj 7. July 2009, 00:49

OMG!:yikes: thats pretty cold.:eyes:
Hope you are fine Yulia, take care.:heart:
am doing fine, thankyou.:smile:

Yulia 7. July 2009, 04:18

i am fine,thanks.But it is really cold for the middle of the Summer.It must be the most hot month here,but...it seems we have our summer only going to Egypt in winter.Such a nonsense...

Elias Yemreli 7. July 2009, 04:38

I will! Thanks :smile: I'll stay there probably not more than a year. And then, I'll head to either St. Petersburg or Moscow :smile: Especially St. Petersburg.

Yulia 7. July 2009, 05:05

welcome :smile:you have huge plans!What will you do there?

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