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Really last PS here!!!

You know - I have thought about it many fact (about this theory of tamed stingrays) and that can be truth.
Mind - how much the amount of alligators attacks on humans increased in the 2000s? Why? Because they are fed by humans. This way they lose fear and respect for humans and want to eat them too! :(
Animals that can be tamed (like cats/ dogs/ dolphins/stingrays(?!) mostly like humans cause they cannot exist without human help/they receive food from humans.
Many stingrays that live in the open too. When people snorkel they feed them. Thus they are good for people.

But some don't know they can get some food from humans. Like the one that killed Irving. Maybe that's the right explanation? Or maybe not?



?

LM

OKi - and some corrections at last. I made many more and less awful errors in my posts above but one is really ugly (in the last post). So I want to correct it wishing everyone many happy virtual journeys (and not only virtual) :)

You know - I have thought about it many times .

OKI. Read me soon :)
LM

This is really really last video today. But I must put it here.

Watch and LISTEN TO IT (this man came back into water again!!! I cannot believe it!!! )

Shark bit off a leg

Well... some animals feel strong, are wild and eat meat - they always will be hunting for people like sharks, mostly alligators (don't feed them I beg you).
But many have natural fear against humans. Lets hope each wild animal we are meeting belongs to the second category.

Ups... I have to admit that after watching these all videos today tomorrow I will be screaming even at the sight of ...domestic cat.

:(

Read me soon :)

LM

LadyMacbeth wrote:This is really really last video today. But I must put it here.

LadyMacbeth, where did it happen?
it's terrible..

Hello dear Reader :)

well... it happened somewhere in the ocean.... in the very, very deep ocean. The diver was both fortunate (he survived) and misfortunate (he lost part of leg).

The most beautiful film (choosing among the films about alligators and sharks I put here) in my opinion is the movie with a wild fish (a huge shark) jumping out of the ocean to catch his prey. The movie was done from a ship-deck, from some distance and presents perfectly the majesty and glory of the ocean and the shark. What for to come nearer?

And here is another video - very funny - about dangerous anakonda. I like this video very much :)

Wild anakonda swallows little boy

See me soon :)
Travelling,
LM

See that please :)
great white 1
great white 2

Regards :)
LM

Today I have decided to change the object of my interests...sooo... I want to show you some plants that like meat (YES - MEAT). At the stage of evlotion the plants are too little to catch people inside but one day - who knows? When they will like eating meat more and more and there will be enough meat for them in the swamps who knows how big they can grow? Maybe the little today plants will grow as big as dinosaurs? How do you think?

All in all we are somewhere in south-eastern part of US - in swamps of Carolina state...

David Attenbourough Plats that eat meat

How do you like this story?
:)

LM

Hello :)
Today I am in California. I have found a really beautiful video about climbing the world highest tree.
The tree lies somewhere in one of Redwood State Parks on Californian coast (that lie nearby Redwood National Park there).

I like the video very much :)

I like when the man is speaking that plants are living organisms the same way animals are.

Sometimes I can see many trees that have been devastated. Don't harm the nature, please! Don't harm the trees, plants. They also suffer when you kill them and they die slowly because of hurt bark..

Climbing the world highest tree

See one another in California :)

LM

PS. I hope you enjoy the video the same way I enjoy watching it :)

Hello :)
Today I want to show you a very good movie about Yellowstone National Park and its attractions.
It is really a great video.
The Yellostone is the oldest National Park in the world - as you can hear in the video below :)

Following the idea established in Yellowstone there soon followed parks in other nations. In Australia, the Royal National Park was established just south of Sydney in 1879. In Canada, Banff National Park (then known as Rocky Mountain National Park) became its first national park in 1885. New Zealand had its first national park in 1887. In Europe the first national parks were a set of nine parks in Sweden in 1909. Europe has 359 national parks at the moment.

OKI - now time for a link:
Yellowstone National Park

How was the idea of National Parks born?
Read below:

In 1810 the English poet William Wordsworth described the Lake District (rural area in north-west England) as a "sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy". The painter George Catlin, in his travels though the American West, wrote in 1832 that the Native Americans in the United States might be preserved: by some great protecting policy of government . . . in a magnificent park . . . A nation's park, containing man and beast, in all the wild and freshness of their nature's beauty!. Similar ideas were expressed in other countries – In Sweden, for instance, Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld made such a proposition in 1880. The Scottish-American naturalist John Muir was to prove inspirational in the foundation of national parks, anticipating many ideas of conservationism, environmentalism, and the animal rights movement.

See you soon :)
LM

PS. Ups... I forgot to add Yellowstone was set up in 1872.

And here some more things about it like :

The old faithful

mud volcanoes in Yellowstone National Park

While watching the movie about mud volcanoes you can read what are they and that their smell is really nasty ! So probably we all should be happy watching them on-line...
Soon - Europe again :)

LM

Hi once again today :)

Here is better video with active Old faithful than the one above. So enjoy it:

Old faithful 2

:)

LM

Hi :)

Today I have wanted to write to you more about Australia but I think it is immpossible for some time :(. There are so many National Parks in Australia that probably any reasonable map of them doesn't exist at all! Who can count them all? I don't know :(.
I wanted to find some more things about eucalyptus forests there but it is so damn hard! Few things about I found.
So I have decided to make a break for a moment. More - soon.

In the meantime listen some info about Paris :) I mean - we are comming back to the REAL civilisation :)


Paris - travel guide

You can practise your English travelling virtually :). Good luck! :)

LM

PS. It wasn't easy to find this video about Paris. When you try to find something in this subject on youtube.com you can see pictures of Paris...Hilton first! :(

See you later :)

LM

Hello :)

Today we are visiting Vienna - a beautiful European capital.

And here is the link I want to post here:

Vienna

The guy who speaks about Vienna is bit crazy and sometimes uses awful vocabulary :(. His Eglish isn't perfect but there are few things about Vienna on youtube.com. And no things in English I could find apart from this piece...

All the best :)

LM

Hello last time today... well, English of the guy on the video above isn't perfect the same way as mine isn't ... thus now something completely different :)

I found some videos on-line about Polish (Silesian) Beskidy mountains. They aren't too high so great for starting skiers.
All in all I think I should mention them here too!
So 21 seconds in Beskidy in winter!!!

Beskidy in winter

See you soon - next post will about Canada... I haven't been there yet...and you?

LM

Hello :)

I have written that next time I will present some Canadian nature but I am still not ready.

In the meantime I have discovered another terrible video that is about one big orca attacking a woman.
I understand - wild sharks but wild orcas? :(
I have always liked watching trained orcas and you?
But after this video many of my views have been changed :( Probably only dolphins can be trustworthy...

Orca attacks a woman

Is it often when trained orcas attack?
In wikiepdia I read :Captive Orcas have occasionally acted aggressively towards themselves, other Orcas, or humans, which critics say is a result of stress. Nothing about fatal attacks on human beings but who knows what can happen in future?

Don't stress orcas too much, please (and not only orcas)!

LM

Hi everyone who cares :)

I really wanted to post here bit more about Canada (first) and Austrialia (next) but I am still not ready. So busy days I have ... :(

So today I am going to Himalaya mountains. There are so many videos on Mount Everest on-line - some of better, others of worse quality and the one beneath isn't the worst at all. The sound is clear enough to be understood thus you can have next nice on-line English lesson :) Next travels soon :)

Climbing Mount Everest

I would like to know all proverbs connected with Himalaya mountains. If you know some - write, please :)

LM

Hello :)

The video today will be rather short. I want to show you some sands of Sahara desert. It must be really great experience to see a desert, to walk a desert - a sand sea. I hope to see Sahara desert one day :)

Well... the video below has got only few words. Few words and lots of sand... :)

Enjoy watching :)

Running Sahara desert in Morocco

LM

Hi :)

Some hours ago I was travelling across Sahara desert when, suddenly, I noticed something...green. At first I thought it was OASIS. But no!!! There were some aliens!!! Soon after I met a huge flying saucer. Russian businessmen invited me to come inside.
We took off and went... to the moon.

So I am on the moon now! :)

Here is a movie about first travel to the moon:

Landing on the Moon 1969

Our pictures will be ready soon :)
I hope you are as happy as I am :)
See you soon :)

LM

Today I am in Ireland. Watch this nice movie (or rather nice pictures)about Green Island...

Nice silent video about Ireland

LM

Well ... I will present to you my pictures from the moon 2007 soon... in the meantime... safari in Kenya...

Safari in Kenya

ps. sorry that the video above isn't of the best quality...but I didn't find anything better... probably the best would be to watch it at the smallest size of the screen ...

Happy watching :)

LM

Hello :)

Today I am in India. Look at that! There are no rules at all when driving in India! The same in Poland only we PROBABLY have more accidents...

Traffic in India

See you soon :)))

LM

Hello today :)

Well... today I have come to show you something quite different than yesterday. India is a huge country, full of diversities. The video below shows everyone quite different picture than yesterday's movie. Which picture is more true? I don't know. I never was in India... yet :).

Well... I would like only to add here that when you open the video below you will see many other videos about India on the right side of your computer screen. Some are really great! I recommend them all! :)

Modern
India

Next fantastic journeys soon...
Guess now where will I go? :)

LM

Hello today:)

This time I want to show you some Japan. This is such a far, exotic country from my perspective... . First a short promotional video about Japan:
Japan

And here some recollections of Italians who travelled to Japan. Pity whole movie (21 parts I suspect) is in Italian only :(. Besides you have to find on your own the other parts of the movie... ...here and there ...

Italians in Japan

Well... I had to take you (and me) to Japan. You could see on the video above that India has become another Japan lately so the more I felt oblidged to show everyone a cradle of this economical change...

I don't know where will I go next. Any suggestions?
LM

Helo dear travellers :)

Today we are going to Russia (again as I remember).
We will pay two visits in two different, important Russian cities - Saint Petersburg and Moscow or Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Two journeys will be kept in careless, western style. The third trip is my favourite one. Specially its musical backgrund is very Russian... :)

So Moscow first:
Travelling to Moscow (cheerful travel)

Travelling to Moscow (serious musical background)

Things to see in Saint Petersburg:

West goes to Saint Petersburg

How do you like the journeys today?

LM

PS. Maybe you have any suggestions where would you like to go in future? :)
I am open for all ideas... :)

Ups.... hello again ... :)

Well...I can see I've made some mess with travel to Moscow in my post above. Namely the first journey should be solemn and the second cheerful. Ups

I hope you can forgive me. So once again :

Moscow with solemn musical background

Cheerful travel to Moscow

OK. I hope everything is OK now :)

Read me soon :)

LM

Well... this is the last ps. of mine here today ( I do hope). So it is even not so much West going to Saint Petersburg in one video above but typically US point of view. You know...Europe - a place nearby North Pole with many historical places... OMG Aren't such ideas educational tragedy of US... I am quite sure about it ... : )

LM

Hello :)

Today I would like to show you some video about National Parks of Croatia. There are two parts of the video - part one and part two. I am putting here part one. You have to find part two on your own :)

Probably pictures aren't of the best quality but you can learn many things from the video below :)

First, however, I would like to present to everyone some general info about National Parks in Croatia :)
So some general info first :
National parks of Croatia

And then a video :

a video about national parks of Croatia

Where Croatia is located you can see on the political map of Europe that I put in this thread bit earlier :)

Nice watching :)

LM

Hello :)
New day new VIRTUAL travel :)
Today I am cycling around Vietnam... It is a first part of my virtual travel across Vietnam. Soon I will travel to Hanoi ( as far as I remember very crazy people live in a capital of Vietnam).
Well... the quality of the video beneath is rather poor but you can make the picture smaller and thus improve its quality (easy and efficient way of improving a quality of most videos).
So lets start :
Visiting Vietnam

Well... I must say Vietnam is very, very similar to Poland as deals many aspects. Polish roads are also very dangerous, narrow, many bikers and many accidents we have (probably the biggest amount of accidents in EU). Many drivers are unsober...
others drive much too fast while roads are very narrors and many trees grow nearby them ... :(

Well... Vietnam on the video above seems to be more bikers-friendly than most of Poland... see me soon again :)

LM

Hello :))
Before we will travel to Hanoi I want to show you some other cities. I am starting my virtual journey with a city Prague. Here is a video about one day in Prague... I hope you will enjoy it... :)

One day in Prague

PS. Next will be London and then Hanoi :)
Read me soon :)

LM

Hello again :)

Well... I have come to conclusion that I have put too little sound into my posts here lately. I mean too little English language. So I want to improve it now. London rocks! :)
For the first time in this plot we are visiting wonderful London... :) The sound in the video below isn't the best of course but it can be understood... good luck then :)

Jenna is presenting London

Practise your English and enjoy virtual travelling across the world!

Read me soon here:)
LM

Hello in this nice plot of mine:)

My last trip was... not so far from my place of living.
To one pond that I wanted to see much earlier but I was never able to get there. So at last I reached it... and I liked this place very much.

Of course it was my real journey when I got its banks but each time when I will look at the pictures beneath I will go there virtually... :)

The place is really nice. Almost no mosquitos and many blueberries to pick up when ripe, little hills that surround the pond encourage to walk around it... you should really go there to see it :)))

Piegża Pond

Well... I can notice that most of pictures in my www sides about Alaska National Parks dissapeared (and about NP in Oregon).
Don't be angry at your computers! It is my fault I am afraid :(

I will try to repair all things soon :)))

See me later :)

LM

Hello :)

Today I am in European Union (still) and I want to show you a video with Corrida.

You can also read about Corrida beneath. To practise your English :)

Spanish Corrida

Bullfighting

Read me soon :)

LM

Hi again :)

Now I am travelling virtually to one HISTORICAL place where one German Prince about 100 years ago planted many rhododendrons in the middle of a forest.
Why did he do it? It was a plantation that was going to be put into German local English-style gardens when bit bigger... well IWW , then political changes on this area and at last IIWW ...it all caused that people forgot about plantation of rhododendrons that grew bigger and bigger... as they are today. Now the place is called to be a monument of nature. The bushes are about 5 metres high!!! They form a square 50m x50 metres... you can watch them from a special sight-seeing platform.

How do you like the place? :)

Rhododendrons catawbiensis

The road-sign on first picture says "To the monument of nature". I think it is very nice. And new :)

LM

I am waiting for your virtual trips... :)

My next trips - soon :)

Hello :)

Today - after squarerooting Poland - I am travelling virtually to Istanbul. To Turkey.

Here are pictures from journey:

Travel to Istanbul

Nice journey :)

LM

Hello :)

Wow! Today I am going to show you something really great. A trip to little Netherlands and its capital -Amsterdam :)

Netherland - Poland after squarerooting... or what

Watch English language video beneath - it is really worthy of watching it! :)

Travel to ...Amsterdam

LM

Hello :)

Today something quite different.
Today a journey far from big cities and civilisation... today I am going to take you for a trip into the Andes.

A very nice video, nice music. No English. Just landscapes... for all lazy English learners... ;)

Patagonian Andes

LM

PS. I hope to meet you there one day...but in real...

Hello :)

Today I would like to come back to Europe. Some English language again :). Well... I want to show you Jungfraujoch. That is a place where the highest railway station in Europe is located at the altitude of 3454 metres above sea level.

I was there. Hard to believe but I was there! And I would like to come back there soon... :(

here is a video:

Jungfrau, Switzerland (Top of Europe)

And here is some info from wikipedia:

Jungfraujoch-wikipedia

See me soon... in next virtual travels of mine... :)

Think - 3454...

LM

First a train goes in the open. Then you have to change trains and the train goes inside the mountain. In a tunnel. Maybe someone is interested in this message...


See me soon :)

LM

Hello :)

Today I am going to show you some part of Sicilia... unfortunatelly, I haven't been there... yet... :(

Some nice sounds of music and no English in the video today ... bit pity but, on the other hand, Cosa Nostra's head quater doesn't have to be specially advertised in any important language (as far as I remember) ...

Sicilia

Well that's all for today,
Read me soon :)

LM

Hello :)
Important message for all travellers.
The new 7 wonders of the world have just been chosen.
Here they are - the places you really should visit.
At least virtually ;) :

THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD

See me soon :)

LM

PS. Do you have you own, better ideas of places that could be also proposed to the next edition of this poll? Put them here, please :)

Hello,

Today travel around America. Very patriotic travel.
A poetical one.

I hope you will like this travel :)

America, why I love her

See me soon,
LM

Hello :)

Today I would like to show you two movies.
About National Park Death Valley in California.
First some reading :

death Valley - wikipedia reading

and here are movies:

A ride through Death Valley National Park

National Park Death Valley - a movie

Hope you have enjoyed the virtual travel of mine.
I would like to be there one day. With much water on me, of course :)

Remember - 3 litres of water per 1 hour for walking there in summer. Otherwise you will be dried to death as a roasted chicken... as many people who had ended their lives like this there ... :(
No shade...no hope for shade there...for a drop of rain... :(

Take care,
LM

Hi :)

Here is a place that I already visited in my vitrual trips. Crater Lake in Oregon. But I would like to present this wonderful site once again.
Why? I would like to have my own little, fine boat and go there one day ... and go there around... look at this blue water... they say the water is as blue as the sky!

I would like to see such water, really...

Crater Lake Oregon

Very sad... read me soon :)
LM

Hello :)

One video more... a video with a boat...

One video more - about Crater Lake

LM

Hello :)

New day - new virtual journey :)
Back to Grand Canyon Colorado... the biggest canyon on earth.... I have presented it here bit earlier... and now come back... :)

about Grand Canyon Colorado - from Britannica.com

Grand Canyon Colorado US

Hope you enjoy this virtual journey of mine.

Next journeys soon :)
LM

Hallo today,

two new journeys :)
Today we are in Canyonlands National Park in Utah, US :)

Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Canyonlands, Utah Grand View Point Overlook 360

See my next virtual travels soon ... :)

LM

Hello again :)

last nice video today :)

Arches National Park

LM

Hello :)

THIS is last video from Utah today :)
A very nice video with a quiet music. Around 2nd minute of this video you can see some views from Dead Horse Point. Very important place :)

Arches

See me soon in my next virtual youtube.com (and not only!!!) travels :)

LM

Today a virtual trip to Niagara Falls... a lot of water there...indeed...

Niagara Falls and not only movie 1

Niagara Falls with a little French

Niagara Falls in Winter

Niagara Falls movie 4


PS. Movie 2 is the best of these 4 (in my opinion) :)

Movie 4 isn't only about Niagara Falls but also
about other attractions. A room with a view on
Niagara Falls ...interesting how much for it...?
Or maybe... not interesting at all...

See me soon in my next virtual trips :)
LM

Hello :)

I have just noticed I have above 7000 people in this plot. How wonderful! :) THANKS for reading about my virtual journeys. HOWEVER, I stiil insist on reading here about more travells ...not only mine :).

Today I want to show you a Galapogos turtle that can keep apple on its head. Isn't it fascinating somehow?

However, I really don't know if the animal is kept somewhere on Galapagos island or elsewehere in a zoo... it is not told in the video... :(

All in all... if any of you visited Galapagos - write me about it here, please :)

Galapagos turtle with an apple on its head

PS. OKI. That's all now :). You must admit this turtle above is so skilled...

What do you think? :)

LM