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Baby Alive Mix My Medicine Baby is home sick in her kitty-cat pajamas today. Does she need her medicine? A tissue? A drink of water? Find out what’s wrong by using her special interactive thermometer. Once you know what’s wrong with baby, you can choose 1 of the 2 medicine packets to make her all better. Mix the powdered doll medicine with 3 tsp. (15 ml.) of water, then use the medicine dropper to give baby her medicine! And oh, dear… does baby have a boo-boo? Use the bandage sticker to soothe baby — and a cuddle and kiss helps, too! Kids will have fun mixing up medicine for baby, changing baby’s diaper (additional diapers sold separately), and making their baby doll feel all better.

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Includes doll, diaper, medicine cup and dropper, 2 packets of doll medicine, interactive thermometer, removable pajamas, bandage stickers, tissue, and instructions.
MIX BABY’S MEDICINE - Kids love playing “doctor” and they’ll have so much fun mixing up doll medicine to make baby all better
INTERACTIVE THERMOMETER – When you use your baby doll’s thermometer, a picture will appear to show you what she needs
MIX IT UP AND MAKE HER BETTER - Once you know what’s wrong with baby, choose one of the packets, add water, and squeeze to fill the dropper with doll medicine. Time to open wide, baby!
CHANGE BABY’S DIAPER – Baby’s thirsty! Give her some water from her cup. Uh-oh, baby’s wet! Time for a diaper change (additional diapers sold separately)
For ages 3+
WARNING: Small parts may be generated.
Note: Adult should remove and discard fasteners/packaging components.
Doll medicine not intended to be eaten.
Included powdered doll medicine is NOT reusable and is intended for use ONLY with Baby Alive dolls that take powdered doll food.
Baby Alive powdered doll medicine may stain some surfaces. Adult supervision recommended.
DIAPER FILLING: ALL NEW MATERIALS: SOFTWOOD PULP.
SURFACE CLEAN ONLY

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Baby Alive Super Snacks Reusable Solid Doll Food Refill Pack

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doll food refills for baby alive snacks dolls (each sold separately)
Three containers of reusable solid doll food
Comes with snack time accessories

Product Dimensions

3.9 x 15.3 x 20.8 cm; 118 Grams

Manufacturer recommended age

3 years and up

Item model number

C2727EU4

Language:

English

Assembly Required

Batteries Required?

Batteries included?

Material Type(s)

Plastic

Material Composition

Plastic

Remote Control Included?

Mfg Recommended age

36 months - 99 years

ASIN

B06X999R4R

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This product is subject to specific safety warnings

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Warning: Not suitable for children under 3 years. For use under adult supervision
Warning: Toy inside. Adult supervision recommended

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Product Description

Stock up on pretend snack supplies with the Baby Alive Super Snacks Reusable Solid Doll Food Refill Pack! This pack comes with 3 containers of solid reusable doll food to make snacks for all Baby Alive Super Snacks dolls (Dolls sold separately. Use Baby Alive reusable solid doll food on Baby Alive Super Snacks dolls only). Each container is reusable so kids can prepare pretend treats for their doll again and again. mummies and daddies can use the included bib and placemat to make sure their baby is ready for a fun snack time! Baby Alive and all related properties are trademarks of Hasbro.

Safety Warning

Ages 3 and up. Warning: Choking hazard - Small parts may be generated. Not for children under 3 years. Notice: Contains wheat. Non-toxic. Conforms to ASTM D4236. Solid doll food creation may vary depending on the skill set of the child. Baby Alive reusable doll food is non-toxic though not intended for human consumption. Use Baby Alive reusable doll food with our Super Snacks line of dolls only. No expiry date.

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Includes 3 one-ounce containers of reusable solid doll food, bib, and placemat.

Time to stock up with Baby Alive Super Snacks Reusable Solid Doll Food Refill Pack! This pack comes with 3 containers of solid reusable doll food to make snacks for all Baby Alive Super Snacks dolls (Dolls sold separately. Use Baby Alive reusable solid doll food on Baby Alive Super Snacks dolls only). Containers are reusable so kids can prepare pretend treats for their doll again and again.

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3 one-ounce containers of reusable solid doll food
1 bib
1 placemat

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90,000 delivery of baby food from the EU to the USA took up the Pentagon - DW - 05.23.2022

Derived in the USA on a military aircraft, baby food photos: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

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Natalia Koroleva 23.05.2022 23 23 23 23 23 23 May 2022

There is a severe shortage of infant formula in the United States due to supply chain disruption and the closure of a Michigan factory. The scarce product was brought on a military transport plane from Germany.

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A US military aircraft loaded with more than 31 tons of scarce infant formula landed in Indiana on Sunday, May 22. It arrived from the American air base "Ramstein", located in the west of Germany, in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The baby food brought in is enough to fill more than half a million bottles.

Out of stock - for a variety of reasons

There has been an acute shortage of infant formula in the US for several months now. The reason for this is a number of circumstances. Initially, powdered baby food production declined due to supply chain disruption and staffing shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic.. Then in February, US pharmaceutical company Abbott was forced to close a Michigan baby food plant after the death of two babies.

The tragedy allegedly occurred due to infection with pathogenic bacteria. However, a review by the Food and Drug Administration showed that the product was in order, and an agreement was reached last week to resume production at Abbott. However, it will be several weeks before dry mix appears on supermarket shelves.

The first batch covered 15 percent of needs

Therefore, US President Joseph Biden ordered that baby food be shipped by US military transport aircraft from Europe. On Sunday evening, on Twitter, he announced the second such flight, which will bring baby food from the Swiss company Nestlé to the United States.

The first shipment of milk formula from the EU covered about 15 percent of emergency needs, Brian Deese, political and economic adviser to the President of the United States, told CNN. The infant formula was brought to Indiana, where Nestlé's headquarters are located. There, the product will be tested for quality in the laboratory, after which it will be distributed to American supermarkets.

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Currency and Policies

National Currency - British Pound Sterling, 1 Pound Sterling = 100 pence (Exchange rate on July 03, 2002: 0. 6555 GBP = 1 USD ). In circulation are banknotes of 5, 10, 20, 50 pounds, coins of 1, 5, 10, 50 pence. Import and export of national and foreign currency is not limited.

Currency exchange: You can exchange currency for pounds sterling at any bank branch or exchange offices. You must have your passport with you. Bank fees are 0.5% - 1%. Banks open from 9.30 to 15.30 on weekdays. Some banks close later on Thursdays and are open on Saturday until lunchtime.

Politics

The state system is a constitutional monarchy. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II (in power since February 6, 1952). The head of government is Prime Minister John Major (in office since November 28, 1990). Monetary unit - pound sterling. Average life expectancy (for 1992): 73 years - men, 79 years - women. Birth rate (per 1000 people) - 14. Mortality rate (per 1000 people) - II.

Visa and customs regimes

Visa is issued at the British Embassy. To obtain a visa, it is necessary to submit the following documents to the travel agency 3-4 weeks before the trip: a completed application form, a certificate from the place of work indicating the annual income, copies of documents confirming the availability of property (privatized apartment, summer house, garage, car), 2 passport size photographs, international passport. The English are pretty strict. You may be called for an interview, but it is possible that you will receive a visa without this procedure.

Time

Time is 3 hours behind Moscow time.

Geography

State in the north-east of Europe. It consists of the island of Great Britain, which contains England, Scotland and Wales, and Northern Ireland, which occupies part of the island of Ireland. The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are dominions of the United Kingdom, but are not part of it. The area of the country is 244111 sq. km.

On the territory of England are the Pennines (in the north of the region) with the highest point - Mount Scafell Pike (978 m). The picturesque Lake District is also located in the Pennines.

South of the Pennines and east of Wales lies a vast plain covering much of central and southern England. In the extreme south of the region are the Dartmoor Hills (about 610 m above sea level).

The main rivers of the region are the Thames, Severn, Tyne, Mersey. Most of the territory of Northern Ireland is occupied by a plain, in the center of which is Loch Nee (about 390 sq. km.) - the largest lake in the British Isles. The mountains are located in the northwest (Sperin Mountains), on the northeast coast (Antrim Highlands) and the Murne Mountains in the southeast of the region, they also contain the highest point in Northern Ireland, Slieve Donard (852 m). The main rivers of the region are the Foyle, the Upper Ban and the Lower Ban.

Scotland is mostly mountainous but can be further divided into three regions: the Highlands in the north, the Central Lowlands in the center and the Sazen Uplands in the south. The first region occupies more than half of the territory of Scotland. This is the most mountainous region of the British Isles, cut in many places by narrow lakes. In the Grampian Mountains of this region is the highest point in Scotland, and the entire United Kingdom - Mount Ben Nevis (1343 m).

The central region is more or less flat with some hills. And although it occupies only a tenth of the territory of Scotland, the majority of the population is concentrated here. And the southernmost region is the moorland, much lower than the Highlands. The main rivers of Scotland are the Clyde, the Tay, the Force, the Tweed, the Dee and the Spey. Loch Ness, Loch Tay and Loch Catherine stand out among the numerous lakes. Wales, like Scotland, is a mountainous region, but the mountains here are not so high. The main mountain range is the Cambrian Mountains in the center of Wales, the Snowdon massif (up to 1085 m high) is located in the northwest. The main rivers of Wales are Dee, Usk, Teifi. The largest lake is Bala.

Attractions

In London - The Tower, Buckingham Palace, the world-famous Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, St. Paul's Cathedral, the patron saint of London, the Gothic Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, Westminster Abbey and the Cathedral with the chapel of Henry VII, the National Gallery and The British Museum, the Museum of Transport in Covent Garden, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Victoria and Albert, the Tate Gallery and the Courtauld Institute are the largest collections of painting and sculpture. The parks of London are magnificent: the most famous of the royal parks is Hyde Park, the oldest is St. James Park and one of the most elegant is Regents Park, located next to Madame Tussauds. England: the city of Lincoln, with the oldest fortress in England, the city of Bath, with the Roman baths located there, in the north - the city of Chester, founded by the Romans 2000 years ago, York - one of the most beautiful medieval cities in England with a magnificent Ministerial Cathedral, the mountainous Lake District with picturesque lakes and medieval villages, turned into a colorful national park, the legendary Stonehenge (dated approximately 3100 - 1800 BC). Lake District in Lancashire, national parks and stalactite caves Dan-ir-Igof, etc. Scotland: Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh, the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, the Snowdonia National Natural Museum with Bryn Bras Castle, where a park with waterfalls awaits you. The Vail of Neath, near the Brecon Beacons National Park, is also called the edge of the waterfalls. Loch Ness Monster Museum. Wales: Harlech Castle, towering on a cliff in the center of Wales, Conwy Castle, Bowmaris Castle on about. Anglesey and the impressive Caernarfon Castle, Castell Coch Castle with a working drawbridge, a 12th-century cathedral. in the town of Saint Davids, where the relics of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, are kept.

History

In 43 AD Britain became part of the Roman Empire and remained there until 410, when the Romans were driven out by the Celts, Saxons and other tribes.

In 1066, the petty kingdoms of Great Britain were conquered by the Norman commander William and united into a single state.

In 1215, King John the Landless signed a guarantee of rights, providing for the rule of law "Magna Carta" (the document is still one of the main parts of the country's constitution).

In 1338 England entered into a war with France that lasted over a hundred years (until 1453). Almost immediately after its end, the war for the English throne (the War of the Roses) broke out, ending in 1485 with the victory of the Tudor dynasties.

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1, England became a great maritime power and received very extensive colonies on several continents.

In 1603, when the Scottish king James VI was crowned on the English throne as King James 1, Scotland and England were effectively united into one state. However, the Kingdom of Great Britain was proclaimed after the signing of the act of unification in 1707, from the same time London became the capital of a single state.

In 1642 - 1649 conflict between the royal house of Stuart and Parliament led to a bloody civil war, which resulted in the proclaiming of a republic led by Oliver Cromwell. The monarchy was soon restored, but the rights of the king were significantly curtailed and, in fact, the full power was in Parliament.

At the end of the 18th century, Great Britain lost 13 American colonies, but significantly strengthened its positions in Canada and India. Ireland was annexed to the kingdom in 1801.

In 1815, Great Britain played a rather large role in the defeat of the Napoleonic army, which strengthened its position as one of the most important European powers. After that, the country lived in peace for a century, expanding its colonial possessions, which especially grew during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901).

After the First World War, Great Britain was in a difficult economic situation, which partly played into the hands of the Irish liberation movement, and in 19Ireland declared independence in 21. After World War II, national problems arose in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The events in Northern Ireland took on a particularly dramatic character, where a war had actually been waged since 1969.

In August 1994, the Irish Republican Army announced a unilateral ceasefire and the peace process, which began in the early 1990s with negotiations between the British and Irish governments, moved a little faster. However, dissatisfied with the course of the process, the IRA militants at the beginning of 1996 years resumed terrorist activities.

The UK is a member of the UN and all specialized agencies of this organization, NATO, CFE, EU, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. British Commonwealth of Nations.

Climate

The country's climate varies by region.
In England, the climate is mild, due to the relative warmth of the seas surrounding it. The average annual temperature is around 11°C in the south and around 9°C in the northeast. The average July temperature in London is about 18°C, the average January temperature is about 4.5°C. The average annual rainfall (the heaviest rains come in October) is about 760 mm. The climate of Northern Ireland is mild and humid. The average annual temperature is about 10°C (about 14.5°C in July and about 4.5°C in January). The amount of precipitation in the north often exceeds 1016 mm per year, while in the south it is about 760 mm per year.

Scotland is the coldest region in the UK, although the climate is generally mild. The average January temperature is about 3°C, and snow often falls in the mountains in the north. The average July temperature is about 15°C. The highest amount of precipitation falls in the west of the Highlands region (about 3810 mm per year), the least - in some eastern regions (about 635 mm per year).

The climate of Wales is the same as the climate of England, mild and humid. The average January temperature is about 5.5 ° C. The average July temperature is about 15.5 ° C. The average annual rainfall is about 762 mm in the central coastal region and more than 2540 mm in the Sno-UDON massif.

Cuisine

Over the past years, we have heard a lot of talk about the need to attract foreign tourists to the country. It is well known that, from the point of view of a foreigner, the two worst vices of England are the mortal anguish of our Sundays and the embarrassment of having a drink.

We owe both circumstances to groups of fanatics who cannot be appeased without persistent efforts, including extensive legislation. But there is an area in which public opinion could make a quick change for the better. I mean the kitchen.

Everyone, even the British themselves, keeps saying that English cuisine is the worst in the world. Everyone considers it not only primitive, but also imitative. I even read recently in a French book: "Of course, the best English cuisine is simply French cuisine."

But that's just not true. As anyone who has lived abroad knows, there are many delicacies that cannot be tasted outside of English-speaking countries. Here are some of the dishes that I myself tried - and failed - to find abroad. And this list could certainly be continued.

First of all, it's smoked fish, Yorkshire pudding, Devonshire cream tart, buttered hot pancakes and scones. Then the list of puddings, which could be continued indefinitely, wish I could list them all, but I will especially highlight Christmas pudding, molasses pie and apples baked in dough. Then there is an equally long list of cakes - for example, dark plum cake (which you bought from Buzzard before the war), shortcakes and saffron buns. And countless varieties of cookies. Cookies, of course, are baked in all countries, but it is generally recognized that nowhere do they come out better and more crumbly than in England.

Then there are various recipes for cooking potatoes that are unique to our country. Where else are potatoes fried, putting it under the shoulder blade or a piece of the leg - and you can’t cook it better. And the delicious potato pies they cook in the north of England? Young potatoes, on the other hand, are known to taste best when cooked the English way - that is, boiled with mint and then served with melted butter or margarine, rather than fried, as in many other countries.

There are also purely English sauces. Bread sauce, for example, mint, apple, horseradish sauce, not to mention redcurrant jelly - the best seasoning for lamb and hare, and all kinds of pickles and marinades, which, it seems, we have more than anywhere else country.

What else? Outside of our islands, I have never met haggis (except perhaps canned), or Dublin-style shrimp, or Oxford jam, or any other kind of jam (from zucchini or brambles, for example), or sausage exactly the same taste as ours.

Then English cheeses. There may not be many of them, but, in my opinion, Stilton is the best cheese of its kind in the world, and Wensleydale is not much inferior to Stilton. English apples are also excellent, especially Cox's orange pepin.

Finally, I would like to put in a good word for English bread. All types of bread are good, from huge Jewish loaves flavored with caraway seeds to Russian rye-colored molasses. And yet, what could be better than a crumb of English country bread (when will we see it again now?). I don't know anything of the sort.

Undoubtedly, many of the above dishes can be found on the Continent, just as vodka or bird's nest soup can be found in London. But organically they are inherent in our shores, and in many overseas regions they have not been heard of.

Go try ordering a pudding with kidney fat somewhere south of Brussels. "Kidney fat" after all, you can’t really translate into French. What's more, the French never put mint in their food and don't use blackcurrants except to make a drink.

Thus, it is clear that we have no reason to be ashamed of our own cuisine, either in terms of its originality or in terms of its ingredients. Nevertheless, one has to admit that it creates serious difficulties for foreign guests. For real good English food can only be tasted in a private house. You want a good, savory slice of Yorkshire pudding - you'd rather get it in the poorest English house than in a restaurant, and visitors, of necessity, eat in restaurants.

A restaurant with typical English - and well cooked - food is extremely hard to find. In pubs, as a rule, no food is served at all, except for crispy potatoes and tasteless sandwiches.

Almost all expensive restaurants and hotels imitate French cuisine and write menus in French, so the desire to eat tasty and cheap will inevitably lead you to a Greek, Italian or Chinese restaurant. It is unlikely that we will succeed in attracting tourists while England maintains a reputation for bad food and obscure by-laws of local authorities. Today you can't really fix anything here, but sooner or later the rationing of products will come to an end, and then the right moment will come for the revival of our national cuisine. Every restaurant in England is by no means destined by nature to be either bad or foreign, and the first step towards solving the problem will be a less patient attitude on the part of the British themselves.

Population

The population of the United Kingdom (estimated in 1995) is about 58,093,000 people, in the largest cities: London (6,803,000 people), Birmingham (935,000 people), Glasgow (654,000 people), Sheffield (500,000 people), Liverpool (450,000 people), Edinburgh (421,000 people), Manchester (398,000 people), Belfast (280,000 people), Cardiff (272,000 people). The average population density is about 238 people per sq. km.

Ethnic groups: British (English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh) - 94%, Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese, Arabs, Africans.

Useful information

Be sure to leave your room keys with the hotel when you leave.

We advise you to use special safes in hotels to store documents, money, valuables. Usually the cost of a safe ranges from 2 to 5 pounds per day. In case of loss or loss of documents, money and other valuables from the hotel room that have not been deposited, the travel agency, the host party and the hotel administration are not responsible.

It is very convenient to call from the hotel room (the cost of negotiations is included in the price per room). International phone calls are not included in the room rate. British Telecom telephone booths are equipped with machines that accept coins in denominations of 10, 20, 50 pence and 1 pound. You can use phone cards, which are sold at the post office and at newsstands. BT-competitor Mercury's phone booths also allow you to use a phone or credit card. A conversation with a Mercury device (including international calls) is 20% cheaper. Cards can be bought at newsstands and train stations.

If you are calling to Russia, you need to dial 0107 - area code - subscriber's number. For example, to communicate with Moscow, you dial 0107 - 095 - the subscriber's number.

In the event of a fire, call 999 to call the police or an ambulance. High fines apply if emergency calls are abused.

Entertainment

Until recently, the concept of "the largest" in relation to such an "interior item" of the urban landscape as a Ferris wheel, was the prerogative of purposefully mysterious Japanese. But, as you know, progress does not stand still, and in the matter of viewing the beauties through this very wheel, or rather, it will even be said, its size, the Englishmen, who are very conservative for the most part, took revenge. And immediately there were those who are "for" and, of course, those who are "against". The position of the author of the proposed material can be safely attributed to the opponents of the construction of this structure in this place. His opinion was of interest to the editors for two reasons. Firstly, as the opinion of a professional artist, and secondly, as the opinion of our compatriot, who has lived in London for a long time and sincerely loves this city.

In the past year 2000, the British capital acquired three very noticeable architectural structures that marked the beginning of the new millennium with their appearance. They were: "Dome" - a colossal exhibition hall of not entirely clear purpose, "New Tate Gallery" - a museum of avant-garde art of the XX century and "London Eye" - a giant Ferris wheel.

There are many things that unite these essentially different buildings. First of all, their huge size, which makes them very noticeable in the literal sense of the word, and sometimes, I must say, obsessively noticeable, such as London Eye, which grew up on the Thames embankment almost opposite Big Ben and obviously did not decorate with its presence the familiar, which has been developing for centuries view of central London.

Although London's novelties are by no means examples of high taste in architecture, they were erected with a decisiveness and speed that makes one doubt that reasonable conservatism is still a hallmark of the British. For the construction of the New Tate, also located on the embankment, an old building that already existed on that site was used. It seems to have been a heating plant, from which the gallery inherited a huge chimney that makes the New Tate building look like an inhuman crematorium. It is highly doubtful that this appearance of the museum was chosen in order to give the Thames embankment an optimistic connotation. However, if this image was specially created by architects as a symbol of avant-garde art presented in the gallery, then this move can be considered brilliant. Indeed, in this case, the form surprisingly corresponds to the content, since the century of modernism development can be characterized as a process of destruction of classical traditions and established ideas about beauty and harmony.

In this connection, I recall Alexander Benois' impressions of Kazimir Malevich's Black Square, which he saw for the first time. Somewhere at the beginning of the last century, the artist called the appearance of this creation not an ordinary event, but the beginning of the end of everything sincere, kind, beautiful in art, which should inevitably lead to collapse. The gloomy prophecy was confirmed by the fact that it was embodied in the whole huge exhibition of the New Tate, and it can be safely said that the architects have chosen a surprisingly correct type of building, which retrospectively represents the process in art and culture that Benoit foresaw almost a hundred years ago.

By the way, "London Eye", reminiscent of a phantasmagorically giant bicycle wheel, also gives the impression of a New Tate exhibit that did not fit within the walls of the museum and therefore was taken outside for public viewing. This feeling is further enhanced by the fact that huge sculptures-images of Salvador Dali have long been placed next to the Wheel as part of the artist's exhibition. It is worth recalling that the great surrealist considered the basis of his art of vision ... a schizophrenic. In this context, the Wheel looks great in a series of fantastic images of Dali.

"London Eye" is similar to the works of avant-garde art by some meaninglessness of this creation in comparison with the costs that its creation required. I mean the uselessness is not commercial, but primarily cultural and even cultural and entertainment. The commercial return from the Wheel, on the contrary, exceeds all reasonable limits. Like any tourist entertainment of this kind. The wheel gathers an incredible number of people who want to make sure that a half-hour contemplation of London "at a glance" is not as exciting as it is promised in advertising.

The entertainment starts at the entrance to the Wheel. The wise British, who have become adept at serving tourists, prudently endowed most of the streets next to the new attraction with a double red stripe, which means a categorical ban on parking. In return, a car park was opened near the Wheel with an exorbitantly high fee (about $ 10 per hour). Having vainly circled the nearest lanes in search of shelter, I, like thousands of those who wished for "ascension", had to use the services of a predatory parking lot.

The line for London Eye tickets looked like three hours, but it went much faster - just over two. However, this fact was not a great consolation, since the cashier, whom I finally reached, with a polite smile, warned that the next session, for which you can get the coveted ticket (in exchange for 6 pounds - about 10 dollars), will take place only at 15.30. The clock was 13.40. Sensing my doubts, the cashier just as politely reminded me of my rights: I can refuse the event altogether. But I decided to go all the way...

An hour and a half later, I was already standing in another line - for landing. She moved slowly, but it was not boring, because within 15 minutes the tickets were checked three times, which added significance to the event that all those gathered expected. Finally, the queue approached the turnstile (like in the subway), where, after checking my ticket for the fourth time, they let me into the platform, from where the queue moved along the serpentine to the egg-shaped gondolas, from which I had to admire London.

Happiness was close, but at one of the turns of the serpentine the queue ran into a strange-looking one-story building - a shed or garage, without windows, but with two doors. In groups of 12-15 people, the afflicted were brought into one door, after which the doors were tightly closed. After 3-5 minutes, everyone was let out through other doors. I noticed that the woman in front of me, just in case, counted the incoming and outgoing. She was probably relieved by the result, as she boldly stepped inside the shed when it was our turn. I went in too, the doors closed. In the twilight, someone in a low voice from somewhere above asked us to distribute ourselves evenly along the wall and not be afraid of flashes. We spread out and were not afraid, because we already knew that they would let everyone out. And so it happened.

Looking ahead, I'll say that after 30 minutes, at the exit from the Wheel, we were offered to buy ready-made photographs, in which I found myself captured inside a gondola hanging over London illuminated by the setting sun. A bright photo montage, something essentially reminiscent of beach "fake" pictures of the past, when the person being filmed stuck his head through the hole on the painted canvas. In this case, we did not need to stick our heads anywhere, but only go into the shed and "distribute" along the wall. However, the result was the same "linden", for one copy of which you were asked to pay (if you wish, of course) another 6 pounds.

So, having passed the last obstacle on the way to the gondola, we were launched into it. Thirsty for spectacles were now distributed along its glass walls and froze in anticipation. Our gondola slowly, almost imperceptibly, crawled up, but stopped immediately, and we began to watch how the next one was being filled, after which we made another barely noticeable advance to the top.

In a 30-minute session, the Wheel makes one complete revolution, that is, once with stops to "refuel" other gondolas, it lifts you to the top point. And so we slowly moved up. The kids were the first to get bored. A little boy after 10 minutes of "driving" began to ask his mother when we will finally start spinning. The child was probably sure that he got on a huge carousel, which for some reason does not work. Mom's attempts to captivate him by looking at the "small cars and houses" below were unsuccessful. Then a 14-year-old girl was clearly bored, somehow very uncomfortable sitting on the metal binding of the structure. I must say, the children were right, because looking at a big city from an unnaturally high, fixed point is not very exciting. All the time does not leave the feeling that under you is not a living, bustling city, but a model.

"Mom, is it over yet?" - the boy asked with surprise at the exit of the gondola, and I think he was not alone in his disappointment. Mom also became a little thoughtful, perhaps estimating the damage to the family budget caused by these minutes of dubious "pleasure".

Only one thing calmed me down - the whole idea with the construction of the Wheel was carried out by the British airline "British Airways". Probably, most of the income of the "mill" goes to the development of the airline. This is encouraging as I was one of the thousands affected by the services of this company, which has a habit of sending your luggage from time to time to a place other than where you are flying. I heard a joke from the British, "performed" in the spirit of an airline advertisement: "Your breakfast is in London, your lunch is in New York, your luggage is in Bermuda." And all English people understand what that means.

So if British Airways solves this problem with the Wheel, I'll be happy to have contributed with my modest financial investment.

In general, "London Eye" really symbolizes the achievements of modern civilization, reflecting not only its pluses, but also its minuses. This is the priority of the commercial over the aesthetic, and the loss of taste, and the loss of common sense when it comes to what could generate income, and megalomania, and a passion for all kinds of shows ... "London Eye" in literal translation can sound like "London Eye". By analogy with our Novy Arbat, which was called by some of the critics "the false jaw of Moscow", I would call the Wheel "the false eye of London." It remains to rejoice that the strength and durability of modern buildings cannot be compared with the Egyptian pyramids.

Religion

The vast majority of the population belongs to the English state church, one of the largest branches of Protestant Christianity.

Transport

Driving on the left in the UK. The intercity bus is the cheapest way to move around the country. Brit Express Cards are sold at airports. They are valid for 30 days. The passenger with this card receives a 30% discount. For rail travel, you can buy a Brit-Rail ticket.