Macarons Cookies (© Adobe Stock)
Trefl double-sided jigsaw puzzle
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By the way: I assembled this one not by the shape of the pieces, but by the colours. Started with violet, then turned to green, sand, blue, yellow and finally red :-D
assembling since 2008 - and still busy in 2026 :-)
Macarons Cookies (© Adobe Stock)
Trefl double-sided jigsaw puzzle
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By the way: I assembled this one not by the shape of the pieces, but by the colours. Started with violet, then turned to green, sand, blue, yellow and finally red :-D
Swallow's Nest, Crimea
Ukraine: Ластівчине гніздо
The Swallow's Nest is a decorative castle located at Gaspra, a small spa town between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula. It was built between 1911 and 1912, on top of the 40-metre-high Aurora Cliff, in a Neo-Gothic style for Pavel Leonardovich von Steingel, a Russian noble with German roots. The building is compact in size, measuring only 20 m long by 10 m wide.
Restoration of the building began in 1968. The project involved the restoration of a small portion of the castle and the addition of a monolithic console concrete plate to strengthen the cliff.
Swallow's Nest is depicted on a coin of the National Bank of Ukraine.
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Jigsaw puzzle by Step Puzzle (Russia)
In 2014 a group of friends travelled to Rome to visit the Vatican and give a present to the late Pope Francis. It was a very special atmosphere being in Rome and as a group, as well. It was outstandingly peaceful.
Since then we meet as often as we can and last saturday we finally met again.
Just enjoy the impressions of a perfect day in spring, a perfect sky and perfect sweets :-)))
The entrance to the church dedicated to Christ the King, marked with a huge door named the Portal to Paradise