The Lovely Dunleary
Marina Berkovich
July 11, 2023
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The Cruise Port Town of Dublin, Ireland We arrived to the port of Dublin, the very charming Dún Laoghaire ,also known as Dunleary by its
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I am a survivor of socialism and I blog here whenever I feel like it, sharing the truth and insights of being a hostage to socialism for the first 18 years of my life and having the courage to escape it.
I have journeyed from behind The Iron Curtain to FREEDOM and I will never give it up!
I write about my experiences, past and current, through my life, my eyes, my heart. I hope you find something that will resonate with you. If not now, maybe in the future.
Poets, and Writers, and Philos, oh my
Marina Berkovich
July 9, 2023
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All along my journey I literally visited great poets and writers, and philosophers. Then again, isn’t every great writer or poet also a philosopher? Almost
The World’s Smallest Kingdom
Marina Berkovich
July 7, 2023
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Perhaps our entire vacation, from the time we left the Port of Miami on May15 to the time we returned to Fort Lauderdale Airport on
EDINBURGH CASTLE ROCKS
Marina Berkovich
July 6, 2023
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EDINBURGH CASTLE No city ever made such an overwhelming wow impression on me as Edinburgh. Not even London ten days earlier. The reasons are numerous,
HEATHER ALE and heather everywhere
Marina Berkovich
July 5, 2023
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Whether in Ireland or Scotland, heather was everywhere. I have never seen it before, but I know of it from the English and Scottish poetry
THE FIRTH OF FORTH – MAY THE FORTH BE WITH YOU
Marina Berkovich
July 5, 2023
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In Scotland I found myself completely bewildered by the strange (to my ear) sound of Scottish Gaelic words. Two of them, Linne Foirthe, meaning The
There is no place like US-Happy July 4th America!
Marina Berkovich
July 4, 2023
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Those who follow me recently had an opportunity to travel with me (and my wonderful husband) for 42 days to 29 destinations (at least) in
Three Romances by Alexander Goldstein to Lyrics of Marina Berkovich
Marina Berkovich
October 2, 2021
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Photo in Voronezh with Victora, Alexander, Anastasia and Natalya B. A book of my Russian poetry was published two decades ago. And, unbeknownst to me,
Fukuoka
Marina Berkovich
June 15, 2018
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Morning of May 6, 2018 in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan Fukuoka is a prefecture with capital city, Fukuoka city. It was formed from a castle town