Special birthday post

Today is my father’s birthday. As I am in Wales, I cannot celebrate with him, so I decided to give him instead of usual flowers and material presents this special blog post and video. Following video was filmed in 13 different countries and you can hear 13 different languages in it, people singing, waving, laughing, jumping, playing piano… as a small birthday gift to you, daddy! :-)

Happy Birthday! You are the best dad in the world. Thank you for everything. I love you.

And of course: huge thanks to all my friends all over the world, my family and all strangers I met along the way, who participated in this little project of mine. I am happy that you are in my life, that you are ready to help and bring happiness.

In this video participated people from: Brazil, China, Czech Republic, England, Georgia, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea and Wales.

Filming locations: Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Georgia, Germany, Indonesia, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden and Wales.

(And I strongly recommend to turn the volume up, so that you can hear everything properly.)

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Visiting the House of Lords

When I decided to do the internship in the Welsh publishing company, I didn’t think I will end up visiting the “River Room” in the British parliament. But sometimes the best things are those unexpected.

I got this amazing chance to attend the talk by Angela V. John, reputable historian and really lovely person, which was held in the House of Lords. Her new book Turning the Tide was recently published by Parthian books, where I currently work and was lucky to get the invitation to her lecture.

I felt like in those movies, where there is a villain trying to blow up British parliament and before that, he just casually and courteously talks to the other people at the event. (And I suppose I would be the villain in this story, as I wore red lipstick and out of all visitors, I was probably the one with the name which sounds most Russian-like.)

Ever wondered what London looks like from the Parliament building?

I shared my feelings with my colleague, but she looked quite shocked to hear it. I guess I will not try to joke about things like that in front of the British citizen again.

Of course I was very polite guest. I quietly listened to the lecture (well, okay, maybe I was the only one taking pictures, but I was still very quiet) and later when refreshments were served, I went for juice instead of wine.

Here are some pictures from my London trip:

Young Victoria. And another one.

Talk by Angela V. John about suffragette Margaret Haig Thomas.

Chatting people in the River Room, House of Lords.

And Parliament building from the London Eye.

Some people are just not impressed.

Millenium Bridge and St. Paul's Cathedral.

Tate Modern.

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