A case from childhood. There is a popular proverb in Russia: do not sit down not in your own sleigh. (There is not a mistake. We often use double negation in Russian) It's mean that you must not use things which don't belong to you. When I was a child, I checked this proverb literally. It happened more than 20 years old. In that time, I was living in a village with my parents and my grandparents. My grandfather was a veteran of World War II. During the War, he had injuries of his legs so he moved on a wheelchair last years of his life. Once, I wanted to use this one. It was a sunny warm spring morning at the end of May. While my granddad was sleeping, I decided to borrow his transport. I was moving not far because at some moment I couldn't cope with a special mechanism of the wheelchair and... the worst thing happened! It hurt like hell! I soon discovered the truth: I broke my arm. Before I was collapsing onto the road, I was screaming so loudly that my grandmother heard me and ran toward me. She ran to me first but she didn't try to calm down me and lift me! She stood over me and she only was telling annoying: do not sit down not in your own sleigh! do not sit down not in your own sleigh! God punished you! I do not blame her in the odd reaction, I think, she did not understand what it happened something worse than the simple fall. To make thу long story short, I would like to say, it had finished well, I was sent to a doctor, put a plaster cast and my bone recovered in a month. It was my right arm so I had not to do my year's school exams. I had got good marks just.

A scary story with the happy end (I tried using new words and idioms) It hurts like hell! I had felt a bite on my belly. It was dark. But we were still looking for a place for a camp out among bushes in a Sydney park. In Australia, it's forbidden to pitch a tent anywhere except official campsites. We had a very rough day and we didn't have a better choice. My husband, our one-year-old daughter into a child's bike trailer and I had ridden a bike a lot of kilometres on that day. The situation was bad, but it could have been worse. I didn't know who approximately it could have been. I didn't find anything under my t-shirt. There was only a painful red spot on my belly which was increasing by the minute. I nearly jumped out of my skin. Do you remember the old joke that all the Australian animals want to kill you? Actually, at that moment it wasn't fun. Someone of the Australian insect or spider had bitten me. The great and terrible Redback spider might have bitten me.  I lied down and lifted my legs higher than my head in the tent. I drank a litre of water else. We could have called an ambulance because we had boughten insurance. But we were morally and physically weary and wouldn't find new adventures and explain to somebody why we sleep under the stars. The wise and omniscient Internet gave me hope that I live to the morning anyway. And I fell asleep. I'm alive and well after the happening.

The story about courageous person with using new words for me Tiring news about coronavirus and quarantine reminded me about one of interesting themes for me. How do to stay alive in everything conditions? I haven't read until now books by Jacek Palkiewicz.  In vain! This courageous and strong-willed explorer has written about survival in intimaginable wildlife conditions, demanding endurance, sensible and ingenuity. His courageous expeditions of survival were into different regions of the planet. He headed expeditions in uninhabited and hard-to-reach places.  He was crossing the hottest deserts  and the Antlantic ocean, the pole of cold in Siberia, impassable jungles.  This task is difficult and requires unconventional solutions. It wasn't reckless adventures. He was preparing thoroughly for reaching the ambitious goals set himself. There were no place for selfish and irresponsible people in his team. Despite the huge hardship and extremely conditions, all of whom came back lifely from the expeditions.

My best holiday I have had the best holiday in Australia. It wasn't a relaxing and tranquil vacation, it was a big adventure with elements of madness in some moments. The trip was unplanned. We had been making preparations for only one month. My daughter and I  had been waiting for the visas for 20 days. We bought air tickets one week before flying. My husband, our one-year-old daughter,  I, two bicycles, child's bike trailer, husband's suitcase with instruments and our camping gear had been flying for 23 hours to this unbelievable and far country. What do you know in general about Australia besides all the Australian animals want to kill you? I have known bigger than ordinary people. I have read Australian blogger's articles that's why we wanted to live in a tent in bushes for saving money.  My husband had been working for a week there. Three other weeks were spent on our travelling by bicycles. We were in the middle of nature and did to camp out illegally every day in bushes with poison snakes and spiders. Perhaps, they wanted to kill us but we never met with them, fortunately.  We met only a lot of angry ants, a terrestrial leech and I was bitten by a mite on my head.  Australia was a very expensive country for us. We often were window-shopping and dreamed about mouth-watering food. Mainly we lived to rough it and were eating junk food to make ends meet. We are undemanding travellers but sometimes all became a bit too taxing for us. Especially as we travelled with the little baby.  Nevertheless, we fell in love with this wonderful country! Australian nature is the strangest which I saw. When We rode by bike in Australian National Parks I always looked for edible food in the wild because I am a biologist. Usually, I can find food in the wild nature of the northern hemisphere. I know which ones to use. In Australia, there is basically no edible food in the wild, although I am sure if I learned more about it I could find it, it is so bare here that I think it would be very hard to do so.   I found (and it was eaten, of course) only mint and parsley in a Botanic Garden. Once we couldn't ride past a  little family-run cider production and had come for degustation. Unfortunately, recently this beautiful and cosy place was damage to fire.  I have been following attentively to the news about fires in Australia since this Septembre. I can't have to will believe what a lot of fantastic places were burned which we were visited there.