Digital Wandering

When your daughter stops wearing ponytails in her hair and isn’t taking her favorite doll to ‘bath time’, you have to admit: she grew up. What does it mean to you? It means that you should expect a few changes, and not all of them for the best. One of these changes being your annual family vacation. If you have seen bored teenagers watching TV in the hotel and listening to their iPods without leaving their rooms for hours in some of the best all-inclusive resorts in the world with beautiful pools, food to die for, ocean that intoxicate you more than any wine, you probably know what I am talking about. These strange individuals, who begged you for attention several years ago, now need something else, something different, something that would make their hearts beat a little faster and body temperatures take a sharp turn upward.Let’s lea i need to lose weight ve these teens glued to their TVs and think for a moment. Do you have any ideas on how to make your family vacation a bit more interesting and surprising than soaking in the pool, watching baskets being weaved, one strand at a time, and learning how to Hula dance in a Polynesian Cultural Center? I have something for you, but before that let’s journey back in time to Odessa, one of the most beautiful cities in Ukraine.Most of the city’s 19th century houses were built of sandstone mined nearby. This created a very complicated labyrinth of underground tunnels beneath Odessa, known as “catacombs”. These catacombs are an estimated 2,500 kilometers of labyrinths stretching out under the city and surrounding area of Odessa. Odessa’s catacombs are much younger than the catacombs in Paris or Rome, but exceed either in length quite extensively.