Organization of informal auto-racing

Posted in Auto, Travel by admin on the June 14th, 2008

Gumball 3000

In the ‘70s of the last century cult film “Cannonball Run” with Burt Reynolds in the lead role was shot in America. It is a dynamic story about automobile racing throughout America. This film was very popular. In the following several years some sequels were made, but there already were another actors and different plotlines… The idea remained the same – to rush throughout the whole country on car.

Two decades have passed, and this idea has been unexpectedly renewed… (more…)

Beer technology and hotel business

Posted in Travel by admin on the June 13th, 2008

Beer Festival in Denmark, Danmarks Smukkeste Festival

Beer Festival in Denmark, Danmarks Smukkeste Festival

Annually there is a Beer Festival in Denmark. The scale of this festival is certainly not compared with German Oktoberfest, but it is a significant event for small country. Suchlike gathering of people is very profitable moment.

By regular festival in 2005 the administration decided to place some temporary houses, but not the usual ones. Instead of normal house there was a giant copy of beer can Royal Pilsner (scale - 30:1). See the photo. Diameter of this house made 2.2 m, height – 3.75 m. When you came inside you would see an ordinary hotel room, but the form of this room would be cylindrical. There was electricity, refrigerator, furniture IKEA. There also was a stairs leading to the second floor where comfortable round bed situated. By the way, ceiling consisted of two parts that could be opened discovering a romantic view of sky. The advertising booklet presented it like “sky view”.

bear fest

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Flight into Space for 1 Euro

Posted in Internet, Travel by admin on the June 8th, 2008

space, space travel, space tourist

May be, you don’t believe, but today everyone has opportunity to go to space with famous people for 33 rubles (about 1Euro)! The company vkosmos.ru suggests to send your photo or logotype of your company to space. The price of such service is 33 rubles for photo and 99 for logotype. Creators of the project say that there will be soled 133000 passenger’s seats on the rocket, which goes to space in 2009. Each seat will be cost 33 rubles; you can order 1 seat for photo and 3 for logotype. If you order more than 20 seats you can have discounts. It‘s easy to count that creators of project will receive 4,400,000 rubles, and half of them will be profit.

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