h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I hear that Europe is ful of our people with restoraunt and disco club.We call them gasterbajteri.Balkanien people can success where ever they plant theirselves exept on Balkan.
I have lovley datcha at Kamenjar.Kamenjar is weekend place on Danube, 8 km far from centar of NS,but looklike place from fairtale.I spend my summer there,and when my dad finaly build chimney i can move and live there.I do not know when is more beautifull in summer or in winter.In summer is very actively there,and in winter is just snow and silent.Last year swans came there and that was attraction.I want go there now
Where is your datcha?

Actually a very good friend of mine is from Belgrade. Indeed he is very successful (then again he probably would have had the same success in Belgrade). We now do the Moscow project together.
Datcha .. by the way: why wait till your dad builds a chimney? make a start with it! Surprise everyone, including your dad!

I don't really have a datcha, I rent a flat in Moscow and I have my own house in Netherlands (in the east, little village near the German border) My datcha can be either of the two..

People from here is very diligent,but our situation is up-side-down and that is problem here.(always that famouse "our situation")

I readly start with building of chimney,but i know nothing about build.Also i do not know in wich part of datcha they want to put chimney.I am very uninform for somebody who want to be journalist.

Once i try to surprise my parents when i cut some bushes around datcha which they do not want to cut.(one more exemple how uninform i am)That bushes were between our lot and road and protect us from dust.When my parents come and see what i done they ask me nicely that i never try to surprise anymore.

Do you have some advice about build?If somebody give me advice,i can try to surprise them again.

ah... ... well.. maybe it would not really be a good idea to rush along and start on the chimney
Preparation and planning is always 90 % of the job. Never rush into a new job, a new activity. but on the chimney.. I suggest you make it high, open at the top and down below and in between. like a sort of tube.. and make it vertical! I'd really try and make it vertical. Leave experiments to jekyll & hyde types! a Vertical Chimney! Never believe interior decorator nuts in this! A chimney is high and it's going straight up.

I never rush.Who need rush anyway?

For start i can draw chimney and make calculation.Things like that demand some calculation.Never mind which type of calculation,but some type of calculation must be there for every case.

Yes!!!Vertical chimney is very practic and in combination with genius open on top make that smoke goes out.

There is calculation:chimney+open on top and down and below x vertical=smoke goes out.

Now i just needs bricks,suny days and good will.

I knew it would be very easy! and with your first law of chimnematics it should be a piece of cake really Now I'm not sure about the weather in Novi Sad but over here (Monday.. Moscow) it rains. And it is cold. I'd say with this weather you either have a chimney in operation or you have very cold feet. This is definitely the wrong time of the year to build a chimney. I suggest wait till next year?

Rain is stop and Sun is shinning but I shall wait.There is allways next year.I can improve my plans and find best bricks or think about some other material,and when spring comes just build it.And make party for oppening of chimney with cutting red lace.

champagne! Don't forget the ! A good opening should go with champagne! Now the most important thing (but that is my opinion!) is to drink it, not to smash the bottle.
A datcha in winter can be just a bit .. well..

Russian friends of mine have a datcha which they -no heating- only use in full summer. In wintertime they leave a bottle of wodka on the table, glasses, and a note "dear burgler, please drink the wodka and do not damage any of our goods, thank you." Usually when they get back in spring a window is broken and the bottle is empty.

Yes champangeThanksI almost to forget champange.I agree with your opinion about smashing bottle.It is to pity.We shall never make such sin.

Great idea!!! And Wodka is good for warm up in winter time.

ah right.. ! and wodka
However today I learnt that "real" Russians eat ice cream in winter. I noticed this last winter... minus "a lot" celsius and still people happily munching ice cream &!
Today I was told that ice cream indeed lowers the body temperature so that you'd stop feeling cold . I personally don't believe a word of it and I'd go for the wodka any time.

I heard for that equalizing internal and outer temperatures,but i do not do that.Why to drink hot tea during the summer time if you could drink cold bear?Or during the winter to eat cold ice cream when you could drink wodka or wine?

I think you're right... if the outside of you is freezing it is obviously no use trying to freeze the inside as well! your only hope is then to use anti-freeze and what is the main ingredient of anti-freeze? right! so here is a to the use of in winter, (hot! very good) and in summer.
Besides that contains lots of vitamins. Very important!

now for an .. too early for yet

Yes is filled with healthy vitamins,specialy complex of B vitamins!!!I like B vitamins!!! is simpley said liquid bread!!!! is good for blood!!!And is great for...hm...is just great!!!But of course never mix it!!!Mixing make !!!

(I drink because i am ...)

keep drinking ! Fresh should have you up and running soon.
I read your page on Novi Sad! ! very good! ("Not finished yet", I'll believe that.. a page like that will not be finished until it is a 500 page book ). Maybe you can add a bit to the history section? The fortress bit () tells about Roman fortresses, Kings, Turks, Habsburg, ... ah probably the history of Novi Sad (or Vojvodina) is a page on its own.. Ah well.. All I can say is more! More of this!

(* oh, I'm not a native English speaker... so I make a lot of errors writing English. I frequently use ms word and a spell checker to get the obvious typos out .. Maybe a hint? *)

Hi!!!Here i am.I was in Belgrade on Fair of books.

Thank you for good critique.When i finish entry about Novi Sad(i want to put a few more important things)i can to write entry about history of Vojvodina.

Thanks for remind meabout spell checker I turn it off(i use ms word for writitng too) and i forget it at all.It is very good help and it is feaster than dictionary.

well face it: that's what this place is for to write something, whenever and whatever.
so the fair of books! anything exciting there??

We were there 3 hours and we did not see half of fair.Maybe all day would be enough to look everything.Very exciting and but also very big throng.But never mind for throng when i found great book "Portrait from National Geography".Beside of that book i bought few books with text from satirical newspaper "Nasha Krmacha".That newspaper were very active against Milosevic.


(I turn on sppeling grammar and check my text(I have texts in my PC)There is a lot of mistake.I shall corect it.)

this usually happens when you go to any sort of fair, exhibition, whatever... you go there, start "somewhere" and spend a lot of time with the first interesting thing in reach.. then after about two hours numbness hits brain and knees.. At that stage I usually start to wonder what the I'm still doing there. After three hours it is .
Don't worry about errors and typos in your text.. quite a few of us around here are not native English speakers... I'm sure we all make mistakes, more or less obvious ones who cares !

Yes, but i always go again and again.I like to go on that places.That places is very interesting to me.And when all that throng "goes on my head" and i decide to i usualy promise to myself:"you do not go again".Offcourse i usauly go again.

right! yess.. I know the idea
time and time again.

Book fairs are usually good fun, just like book shops. Right down at the first floor here is one of the larger bookshops of Moscow now I don't read much Russian but usually I go there once a week (they have a reasonable set of English books).
I found two latest Pratchett's Discworld books there