My family's country house Hello. Today I'd like to write about my family's country house. (corrections are highly appreciated) It's very common for Russian people to have a country house (or summer house, or dacha/datcha). Most people don't live there all the year round, only during summer or they just go outside a city on weekends. My family also has a country house and it takes about 30-40 minutes driving to get there. The house is located in a big village not far from the river. There are a railway station, a bus stop and a couple of grocery stores, which is pretty convenient in case you forgot to buy something in the town. The house is very old. As my mom told me, it was built in 1960s, but we own it since 1990. I like this place very much, as I've been spending there all my summer holidays when I was a child and a teenager. I met my friends there, whose parents also brought their children every weekend or left them with grandmothers/grandfathers during holidays. It was great time. We've been having a lot of fun spending time together. We played volleyball, swam in the river, rode bicycles, went camping, sang songs in the night by the fire. My family has a flower and a vegetable garden (in Russian - ogorod). We grow there popatoe, tomatoe, cucumber, onion, pepper, cabbage, carrot, garlic, beet, radish. My mom is very much into flowers. She works really hard looking after plants. And I'm very proud of her, you should see those flowers all blooming in July. Now we are renovating the house, as it's old and we didn't do much for several years. We started a month or two ago and spent there every weekend. And there's still a lot of work to do.