Tin Tin in Tehran

from Zartosht Soltani

Early man goes shopping

Banksy is known as a Graffiti artist who hangs his art in famous museum and galleries in London and New York.
Fake prehistoric rock art of a caveman with a shopping trolley has been hung on the walls of the British Museum for three days without being noticed!
His Work on gaza wall were also very impressive, Banksy who has been criticised as an as an irresponsible prankster, risked the bullets of the Israeli security services to stencil nine paintings on to the Palestinian side of Israel's separation wall. They included pictures of children digging a hole, breaking through the wall, and another of a ladder apparently going up the wall and over to the other side. Look Uk Guardian for the pictures and more details!

Norway And Denmark

One month before we got married, Walter, Nasim and me went to Sweden, we loved it so much that we decided to discover Scandinavia further, a year later we went to Helsinki in Finland, and this year we made it to Norway and Denmark.
We flew with Ryanair to Haugesund, and discovered the beautiful nature of Haugeland with its magical landscape - lakes covered with water lilies and hills covered with fragrant wild flowers and snow roses. However, after being shocked by seeing a poisonous rare adder ("Kreuzotter") next to my foot I thought that too much nature is obviously also not so nice!:)
After that we made our way with a bus to a small neat port (Skudeshaven). There we took a ferry and made our way to Stavanger, a small nice city, where we visited the Petroleum Museum. The building was built as a platform, and it was really interesting inside!
From Stavanger we flew with a Norwegian airline in about one hour to Oslo. Walter arranged before that we could stay at Grand Hotel which was a very luxury hotel and situated just in the centre! In this hotel also the nobel prize winners usually stay when they come to Oslo to receive their prices.
I liked Oslo very much, you could see everywhere modern art especially many modern statues.
Another thing that we noticed: There were more small children in Norway and especially in Oslo than in any other capital city I have visted before.
After two days we went further with a big Ferry to Hirtshals in Denmark. The ferry was more and less like a cruiseliner because of it's facilities like big restaurants and bars, swimming pool and night shows!
In Hirtshals we stayed for two nights, the beach was so fantastic and beautiful, I never saw before such a fine white sand, but the weather was a little cool to swim however Walter swam a bit, we walked around and visited the biggest aquarium in Europe there with some cute seals!:)
From Hirtshals we took a train to Aarhus, the second larges town of Denmark where we went to an open air Vikings museum and after that we had a meal in a Vikings restaurant (Walhalla) with a nordic buffet (really good and tasty). We flew back from Aarhus to London and we liked Denmark so much that maybe next year we will go there again!

Good bye Mr. President

Photo from Iran newspaper
As Today is the last day of your 8 years presidency, wanted to tell how I as many other Iranian were Proud that you were our president, however many people think you did not achieved what they expected and criticize you, but in my point of view what is changed during these 8 years is enormous specially by culture and art aspect, with your smile and peaceful attitude, your bright thoughts and your intelligent diplomacy you achieved a lot at International stage.
It is really sad that your time is finished and the thought of your replacer makes it even more difficult!
Thank you for every thing which you have done!