near the lighthouse

About Us

A small sailboat resting on calm water seen beyond golden grasses, warm hazy light, tranquil mood
Alex & Nastya

We are Alex and Nastya. Lovers of warm dinners and cold sea.

This is our blog where we share our everyday life and travel photos.

Here you'll find notes and pictures from our days at home and from the road — quiet weekends, rainy afternoons, and trips to places like the Alps, Etretat, and the forest by Lake Senezh. Nothing more than an honest record of the things we noticed and the light we happened to catch.

Travel writing often begins with a single detail, a glint of light on a cliff, the curve of a wave against dark stone, the hush before a storm. The blog gathers such fragments into a continuous journal, an editorial space where photographers and writers meet in the same frame. Each entry is shaped by an unhurried, literary tone, pairing observation with image so that place becomes character. The aim is not exhaustive coverage but honest attention, the kind that turns a familiar coastline into a story worth returning to, again and again, in different seasons and different light.

Adventure, in this corner of the web, is treated as a slow practice rather than a checklist. Mountains, sea, and forest are approached as collaborators, sources of color and texture that the camera tries to translate back into feeling. A red glow on the homepage and a serif voice throughout suggest something theatrical, yet the content itself remains quiet, observational, and personal. Love is the underlying subject, whether for a person, a plate of warm food, or a path that suddenly opens between trees. Readers are invited to wander at the same unhurried pace, pausing for captions and weather.