One winter day in 2008, the author of this book carefully redrawn the constellation of the Big Dipper, randomly overlaid the picture on the map of Europe and marked on the map the European cities with which the stars coincided. Among the noted cities were both large and well-known - Zurich, Warsaw, Nancy, Zaragoza, Brindisi - and small, to no one but the surrounding residents of unknown settlements: Elche de la Sierra, Marveshol, Oteriv, Engelholm, Otranto, Ponte Leccia and many others. And then the author traveled around all the marked cities and wrote down the stories that he heard on their streets, not getting tired of wondering how the cities become talkative when they take a traveler who came specially to listen to them carefully. It seems that it is very important for any city to be able to talk to people in a language they understand. So there was a “Big cart” the ideal vehicle for trips in Europe, a book-travel, a guide to the secret backstreets of European cities and our hearts.