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Christmas Day in a nuclear bunker in Moscow

I spent Christmas Day with some friends in Moscow. Designed and built after the first series of nuclear tests by the Soviet Union, these tests revealed that the optimum depth for the bunker’s silo must be no higher than 165 feet beneath ground in order to survive nuclear fallout intact. The task for the buildersContinue reading “Christmas Day in a nuclear bunker in Moscow”

How I saw Santa, a White reindeer & the Northern Lights on Christmas Day

I didn’t plan this. It kinda just unfurled as I flowed through the small decisions I was making. But three things happened to me on Christmas Day 2014 that made it absolutely magical: I visited the Real Santa in his village under the Arctic Circle in Finland I had a highway encounter with a whiteContinue reading “How I saw Santa, a White reindeer & the Northern Lights on Christmas Day”