Auto accidents, Car accidents, Truck accidents, Motorcycle accidents are all happening around us. We try to drive our vehicles as carefully as possible but it is always the other drivers' that we have to worry about - right?
How else can we cope with the potential of an accident. Being aware of everything around you when you drive and not be distracted by cell phones, dvd players, gps systems etc. Of, course its easy for me to say all of this, but you know that what I'm writing is true.
Get rid of the distraction and the concentratoin is more on driving, and then being able to deal more speedily with the other driver's bad driving.
The early morning flight out of Kemerovo leaves at about 8am. The video was shot in late March 2007 during unseasonably warm weather (about -5 celsius). The plane is a Tupolev 154M, the runway is frozen, Kemerovo is a nice enough city in Siberia.
Live the thrill of a landing at Bucharest's Otopeni airport on a winter's morning. Exclusive, never before released footage of a landing at Otopeni, secured from the right hand side of the aircraft. Complete with Romanian welcome to Bucharest announcement and full "spoiler" action.
The Balkan Speleo Union assigns the organisation of the Balkan Speleo Reunion Camp to a different country each year. In 2008 it was Greece who played host to the balkan cavers at the camp organised by the Hellenic Federatin of Speleology. This is how we made our way up to the camp.
Description of the camp at: http://speleostel.bl ogspot.com/search/la bel/bsu%20bsrc
Travelling on the Athens Metro does not get much more exciting than this. Two single takes cunningly edited together with a fade to white, showing normal people going about their every day activities in the metro stations of Evangelismos (marvel at the split second timing of the camerawork) and Syntagma (including the self portrait shot!)
There is a small church built in Byzantine times into the cave which was later known as the hiding place of the bandit Davelis. This church is rare, in that it has carved into the living rock of the cave wall depictions of two angels (presumably the two archangels Michael and Gabriel). The footage was filmed on a ATK 1000 and edited on quicktime.
A quick walk around the displayed antiquities in Syntagma Metro station in Athens, including the famous "section" wall. Most of the actual items on display are plastercasts or otherwise reconstructed, but there is plenty which is indeed real.
The cave of Alepotrypa is very famous in neolithic circles for having caved in after thousands of years of use, trapping the last inhabitants inside. We had the opportunity to visit at the weekend of 6-7 October 2007. Things to look out for are the FN figurines, the big lump of obsidian and the stal on the skull.
