Travel to Tunisia, Poland, Spain, Egypt and a number of other countries - this is the travel prose of the famous critic and prose writer Sergei Kostyrko, who has “long experience” of Soviet life restricted from traveling abroad. Cairo, Barcelona, Krakow, Jerusalem, Tangier, Carthage - these words meant for him, as for many fellow citizens, only certain historical and cultural concepts. That is why the very process of these words acquiring geographical—physical and metaphysical—reality turned out to be so emotionally poignant for the author. And also - the opportunity to see from personal experience that travel not only expands the horizons of the world, but also deepens the view of one’s own culture.