Map Monday

Sail Away! Sail Away! Sail Away!

travel time 16 days

distance travelled 1,441 km

sent by Lesya, Ukraine

Island of Utopia 

travel time 3 days

distance travelled 1,703 km

sent by Erik, Germany

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535), written in Latin and published in 1516. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social, and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Bunch of flowers in the shape of Belarus map

travel time 10 days

distance travelled 971 km

sent by Olga, Belarus

fairyland friday

 

Once upon a time there was a little girl who loved matryoshka dolls.... Illustrator Tanya Sitaya

travel time 12 days

distance travelled 2,239 km. 

sent by Anastasia in Krasnodar, Russia

Once upon a time, there lived an unhappy young girl. Unhappy she was, for her mother was dead, her father had married another woman, a widow with two daughters.... 

Classic fairy tale - Cinderella,  illustration Tatiana Mitrushova

travel time 24 days

distance travelled 3,463 km

sent by Tamara in Novosibirsk, Russia

Far, far away where the swallows fly when we have winter, there lived a King who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elisa.... "The Wild Swans"  written by  Hans Christian Andersen.  Illustration Anton Lomeaev

travel time 13 days

distance travelled 1,944 km

sent by Railya in Samara, Russia

Animals

Lion cubs from Lisa in New York, U.S.A.

August 31, 2010 the National Zoo welcomed a litter of  four  lion cubs. The first litter of  Zoo’s 5-year-old lion Shera and the first surviving litter for four-year- old Luke. 

Hedgehog from Katie in New York, U.S.A.

Gamochonia ( Octopus) Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1904) from Randi in Indiana, U.S.A.

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834 – 1919[) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species. The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures  (Kunstformen der Natur, "Art Forms of Nature")