Happy New Year!

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I have this great will to wish very happy 2009 for all my friends, colleagues and loyal readers of these travel notes. I hope peace, joy and happiness will be in your daily life, and I wish health and prosperity for you and your loved ones!

Special greetings to all my readers of the travel scraps of mine, to my guest-author Yulia and Nomadlife community!

p.s. I am pleasantly surprised to learn that there are so many people that I know read my blog on regular basis. Judging from the comments I receive, I used to think that this blog usually interests only some of my friends and many other random visitors looking for piece of travel information. But it seems that lots of people that I know reads these posts. So I feel more responsibility towards them in posting some interesting and entertaining posts with photos and videos. Last year I tried to gradually convert my blog to more general travel blog while also implementing some SEO optimization and affiliate marketing tricks. But I decided to keep my blog more of a personal travel blog and write mostly my own stories.

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