No visa required. Who has most freedom to travel?

Recently I found very interesting information in Economist Magazine regarding freedom to travel without visa and sample list of countries with privileges like that.  Here is a link  and article below.

http://www.economist.com/node/16885221

THE ability to visit a foreign country without the cost and hassle of obtaining a visa is a welcome bonus for any traveller. It is also a barometer of a country's international alliances and relations. A report released on August 25th by Henley & Partners, a consultancy, shows that Britons have the fewest visa restrictions of the 190-odd countries (and territories) for which data are available. British citizens can enjoy a three-day stay for business or pleasure to 166 destinations without needing a visa. Generally, citizens of rich countries and trade-based economies have more freedom to travel than those of countries suffering from war or repression. Compare, for instance, the restrictions on South Korea with North Korea and Hong Kong with those on China.

Mark Spitz in a making

Check cool picks of Aaron at the pool. At the age 2 years and 4 month he is making a laps in a neighborhood pool. A true Mark Spitz in a making.

Go Aaron!!! Go!!! 

Aarosha Enjoys one of the summer evenings at the pool.
(Hosted on Fotki)


See now Aarosha is sweeming in a big pool.
Mark Spitz in a making.
(Hosted on Fotki)

The World 's Population by Lat and Lon

Harvard grad student Bill Rankin devised these fascinating maps, which show the sum of all population living at each degree of latitude or longitude circa 2000. As you can see above, there’s quite a northerly bias: According to Rankin, roughly 88 percent of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, with about half north of 27 degrees north.


Rankin: “Taking the northern and southern hemispheres together, on average the world’s population lives 24 degrees from the equator.”

www.oldmos.ru

Google Street View did not made it to Moscow yet, however bunch of the Russian Street View clone websites are popping out all over the World Wide Web. One of the coolest websites is not only help us to make virtual trip to the streets of Moscow, but also become a time machine to the Moscow past.

                                     The site is ---   http://oldmos.ru/

Here are some picks of  my Moscow - Sokolniki , Yuzhnoe Izmailovo, Sretinka of 1970s - 80s.

Club 'Burevestnik'   cr.1984

Sretinka in 1980s.

Sokolnecheski val , building 6 section 2, and a view of Riga overpass. ( 1980)