Did you know that 30% is recognized by more people as the McDonald's sign than the cross, and, like God, is almost everywhere, except physically rather than metaphysically. More precisely, this American chain has 31,000 restaurants in 119 countries around the world, serving 58 million customers daily. Their architects, brothers, Dick and Mac McDonald, founded it in 1940, and since then it has left its mark not only on our structures, but also on the architectural landscape.
For the first time in the world, a white-tailed eagle, which has been considered extinct in France for more than 50 years, descended from the top of the Eiffel Tower on September 28, 2014 and flew over the Seine to the Trocadéro Gardens.
Globes that have been spinning since 1492 have been given a whole new dimension with Google Earth, a digital globe. Everything in this world has become within reach and we can put our eyes on almost every corner of the world. Latitudes and longitudes have become something fun, not just something to weigh us with in geography and geography. Look at all the strange things he has already found.
"Ocean Atlas" in the Bahamas was created with the help of a 3-D printer by artist Jason deCaires Taylor and is considered the largest undersea sculpture to date.
Sometimes it happens that we are walking somewhere abroad and suddenly it seems to us that we are either dreaming or that there are really beautiful people around us. Of course, everyone is beautiful in their own way, but this time we're talking about that beauty and neatness that makes us feel like we're in the middle of shooting a fashion commercial. We present to you the 10 sexiest neighborhoods in the world!
Sometimes when we travel, we don't even realize that every culture has its own customs and that our certain behavior, which seems very normal to us, is almost unacceptable in other countries.
They say that the law- i.e. marriage- like traveling in a small rowing boat, but they also say that traveling is "marriage". Both were experienced firsthand by Gunther Holtorf and his wife, who extended their 18-month tour of Africa to 22 or. A 26-year road trip through 177 countries. They really had a lot of mileage behind them, even the non-metaphorical ones.
Riga is the central city for night parties in the Baltic region, so it is particularly popular with young people from Western Europe, who enjoy various bachelor and bachelorette parties every weekend.
To most of us, going on a trip all alone, single, just sounds terribly scary. All the alarms immediately go off in our heads: "What if something happens to me? What if I get lost? Alone among strangers, I will surely be lonely!'' But if we want to find ourselves, we have to get lost sometimes. Read why each of us should travel alone at least once in our lives.
Waiting for a bus is almost unbearable, especially in the cold months, so we have prepared for you a selection of fantastic bus stops that can at least make the wait a little easier.
The famous "Iron Lady", the Paris Eiffel Tower, is richer for a new attraction - the glass floor on the first floor, which rises 57 meters above the ground. In its iron or manners of steel, are reserved only for those with nerves of steel, because "walking on air" is not for everyone, especially not for those who are afraid of heights. The glass floor was part of a renovation worth 30 million euros, which also includes four solar panels.
The three Baltic states, which only broke free from the shackles of the Soviet Union a little more than twenty years ago, are facing a similar problem to the countries of the former Yugoslavia. There is always speculation as to where exactly they are located, in the Baltic or the Balkans, what the main cities are, what language they speak and what their currency is. In the desire to make the largest of the three main cities more recognizable, the Latvian capital Riga is especially proud this year to share the title of European Capital of Culture with the Swedish city of Umeå.