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We just came back from our annual diving vacation. This time we went for Advanced Open Water Diver certificates. Destination – a very small village Bali located in Crete. Diving center – Hippocampos. We had a really nice instructor Harvey who is migrating from one diving center to another so I can only promise you won’t find him at the same diving center next summer..

Dives were really amazing. We had five Adventure Dives for AOWD:

1. Boat Dive
2. Night Dive
3. Underwater Navigator
4. Peak Performance Buoyancy
5. Deep Dive

Peak Performance Buoyancy was a number one technical lesson – I’d highly recommend taking it especially if you don’t feel very self-confident underwater due to excessive BCD usage or hard work with your fins/hands.

Night dive was a number one underwater sightseeing. Muraenas are really impressive! Yet apart from them, we’ve seen hell a lot of other underwater creatures. And by creatures, I really mean that some of them caused a frustration because I could not tell whether they were a fish, a plant, a snake, a rock or yet another underwater alien. Here’s an index of those available at Bali.

For our last dive we bought a still underwater camera, so you can find our first underwater photos.

Finally, after a long – almost 6 months Paris “visit”, tomorrow we are moving back to Vilnius. Although I can’t wait to put my feet on the motherland, I must say that the experience was very valuable and I will attempt to share it by continuing the “Paris secrets” column. There’s a lot of bad, good or at least interesting things to tell about Parisians so stay tuned.

Meanwhile, you can check our photos in Marija’s public photo album.

If you love your car and plan to take it to Paris together – think twice and keep on reading – this might change your mind.

When I first saw that, it made me wonder: how do they do it? All the cars are so nicely and closely parked to each other. Distance between every one of them is no more then 10 centimeters and sometimes – there’s no distance at all! Look:

Nice, huh?

But as days passed, I began to realize that the idea of Parisian drivers being really cool was just an illusion. Common, do you think there’s some kind of crane waiting for every car driver so it could drag out the car nicely? I guess the “Golf” driver would really use one:

Or these “Peugeot” drivers:

You think the distances only looks relatively small? Now how relative is that:

Ain’t that love..

If you’re still not convinced, spend some time on google maps. Don’t know where to start? How about here, where I took most of the pictures.

OK, I’ll make it clear: there’s nothing wrong in scratching other cars here! You will not be punished or scolded. Actually you will only get the attention from tourists and city guests like us, but not from local people.

Pity I didn’t have a chance to make a video stream of parking in action yet (although I had a chance to watch few really smooth moves) but as soon as I will succeed, I’ll definitely share it with you. For now, please enjoy what some others guys were lucky to capture: