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L'viv, Lviv, Ukraine travel blog

L'viv

A travel blog entry by budz888

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... the bus-station. I suppose that's why it's a good idea to have a local. Things are definitely a bit different in Ukraine than in those boring countries in western Europe. Once in L'viv we'd been travelling for a while including a really ...

Stick it up your Volga., Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Stick it up your Volga.

A travel blog entry by stevefn

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Kiev., Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Kiev.

A travel blog entry by stevefn

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THE THRILL OF THE WILD UNKNOWN, Primorskaya, Ukraine travel blog

THE THRILL OF THE WILD UNKNOWN

A travel blog entry by modernoddyseus

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... and Russia: Slovakia - 7 days - $25 Hungary - 2 nights - $23 Romania - 7 days - $20 Moldova - a few kilometers - $4 Ukraine - 4.5 nights - $60 (in a hurry, I splurged) I'm a cheap travel date.  Or not; Jana's Slovakian and Mihai's Romanian ...

ILLEGAL ENTRY #6 (RUSSIA TO UKRAINE), Dombasa, Ukraine travel blog

ILLEGAL ENTRY #6 (RUSSIA TO UKRAINE)

A travel blog entry by modernoddyseus

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... trying to go to Turkey and the Lebanon, I'd go to the Czech Republic and then home to Michigan. Two days later, I legally left Ukraine, and I had to pay a $70 fine to do so.  They'd thought I'd been in their country for the past eight ...

Khmelnitskiy, Independance Day, Khmelnitskiy, Ukraine travel blog

Khmelnitskiy, Independance Day

A travel blog entry by budz888

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Russia's the country of statues of Lenin, Ukraine's the country of statues of Taras Shevchenko, the national poet. There were some sort of independance day (I think) celebrations going on in the square near my hotel.  Or perhaps they carry on ...

Khmelnitskiy, Khmelnitskiy, Ukraine travel blog

Khmelnitskiy

A travel blog entry by budz888

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Khmelnitskiy's turned out to be a very pleasant mid-sized city.    I spent most of the day trying to find my way around the market.  It's absolutely huge.  No matter how big you imagine it to be you'll still be underestimating it. ...

Khmelnitskiy... Day One, Khmel'nyts'kyi, Ukraine travel blog

Khmelnitskiy... Day One

A travel blog entry by budz888

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... there are only a handful of hotels in town but I suppose in general you're not going to have that many internal tourists in Ukraine staying at relatively expensive hotels. In any case, I found a room in the second hotel that my taxi driver took me to. ...

Kiev - A Majestic Capital, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Kiev - A Majestic Capital

A travel blog entry by erriuc

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Upon my arrival in Kiev, I experienced the same magic as with my previous train ride to Dnepropetrovsk.  As I stepped out of the train, it was 8am and the communist opera music was playing quite loud.  Wow, I had the people, the buildings and ...

Dnepropetrovsk - Culture Shock! :), Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine travel blog

Dnepropetrovsk - Culture Shock! :)

A travel blog entry by erriuc

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... on the ceiling and the ambiance.  It was so exciting, I could not stop smiling and feeling my heart exploding and opening wide.  This was my introduction into the real Ukraine and I could only desire more.   Endless love ...

Feodosia - Paradoxes in motion, Feodosia, Ukraine travel blog

Feodosia - Paradoxes in motion

A travel blog entry by erriuc

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After almost a month in Feodosia, I am now on an 18h train ride to the capital Kiev.  Feodosia is one of Ukraine most popular summer retreat destination, mainly because of its access and beaches to the magnetic Black Sea and it's nightlife.  ...

More Borders, Grenica, Ukraine travel blog

More Borders

A travel blog entry by uncle_davros

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... as I was in need of a holiday, I thought it was time to put my stamp on one of the breakaway countries.   Destination Ukraine   There are two reasons to go.   1) The Beatles said that Ukraine girls really knock me out, they leave the ...

Psychic Discoveries in Ukraine, Feodosia, Ukraine travel blog

Psychic Discoveries in Ukraine

A travel blog entry by erriuc

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Where to begin explaining what I have experienced?  I have been anticipating this training for so long and although it turned out quite different than I was expecting, it was really worth it.  So much that I extended my stay an extra week to ...

Nuclear, Chornobyl, Ukraine travel blog

Nuclear

A travel blog entry by uncle_davros

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Isn't it funny, how we only ever seem to remember the last disaster. For Seppoes, it's generally the last hurricane down south. For the rest of the world, it's the Asian tsunami. Me, I think further back, but there was one that effected practically the ...

Fort, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Ukraine travel blog

Fort

A travel blog entry by uncle_davros

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Another night train was calling us. This time our heading was South into the mountains. There was a fort down there that was calling out to be explored, and as usual, the night train was shit !!!   Kamyanets-Podilsky   When we arrived, we ...

Paragliding in Coctebel, Coctebel, Ukraine travel blog

Paragliding in Coctebel

A travel blog entry by erriuc

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Living The Dream, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Living The Dream

A travel blog entry by uncle_davros

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... !!! St Michaels Monastery was next. There use to be one here that was years old, but the Soviets knocked it down. Once Ukraine became independent, a copy was built and is meant to look the same. For a building that's 7 years old, it certainly looks ...

coffee crisp unites a nation, L'viv, Ukraine travel blog

coffee crisp unites a nation

A travel blog entry by jay29

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... impossible to even guess what signs, menus and directions where saying. One of the Canadians could read a very small amount of Ukraine, which helped...but, luckily Yulia, the girl working at the hostel and her friend, Natalie, helped us with translation ...

Ukraine's most lovely city!!, Lviv, Ukraine travel blog

Ukraine's most lovely city!!

A travel blog entry by aborder

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... fascination with public transport (outside the UK) but I do. I also notice something of interest to my old man. No pigs yet pops but Ukraine has more Lada's than any other car. A a few Yugo's, remember those? My old headmaster at C of E Mr Harrison used ...

Ukraine's Loveliest City, Lviv, Ukraine travel blog

Ukraine's Loveliest City

A travel blog entry by hildreth75

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... in Lviv are allowed to advertise so getting one was a breeze.   Bo and I spent our days wondering around Ukraine's  "Loveliest City".   This was a great town but I have had my fill of cobble stones, churches, cathedrals and ...

The Orange Revolution!, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

The Orange Revolution!

A travel blog entry by aborder

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... the supermarket, I spot a Marks and Spencers. I know they do great food but totally surprised to see them in the Ukraine. I walked up the main street of Kiev and headed to maydan Nezalezhnosti, not before I purchasd as ice cream. I wanted vanilla ...

2 Countries, 2 Bribes, 2 Gappers, Odessa, Ukraine travel blog

2 Countries, 2 Bribes, 2 Gappers

A travel blog entry by hildreth75

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... by Eva....who is very long winded)   Since Bo (a friend from when I lived in garmisch, germany) had mentioned coming to Ukraine to visit, he'd also mentioned wanting to see a couple other towns in the country, other than Kyiv…then, not too ...

Thanksgiving in Ukraine!, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Thanksgiving in Ukraine!

A travel blog entry by hildreth75

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     Eva is my friend from Garmsich who traveled with me in India and visited me in Taiwan.  Eva is deathly allergic to alcohol a fate worse that than death so she focuses on food.  As you can tell from her ...

Lovin' L'viv, Lviv, Ukraine travel blog

Lovin' L'viv

A travel blog entry by uncle_davros

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Arrival   Because of the way we came, plus the fact we are now in our third time zone for the day, we finally arrived around 19:30. We had a look at the instructions to get to the hostel, and as it was only 5 tram stops away, we decided to walk. ...

Leavin L'viv, Lviv, Ukraine travel blog

Leavin L'viv

A travel blog entry by uncle_davros

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... . Loads of beers were downed, before it was time to say goodbye to some new found friends.   And Finally   We loved Ukraine, and all it had to offer. When the Beatles sang about the Uki girls really knock you out, well just like most places, ...

Over river, through woods to Babushkas house we go, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Over river, through woods to Babushkas house we go

A travel blog entry by mishaley

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After meeting Mama for an early lunch at the Munich airport (and getting my first taste of the European customer service motto "The customer always has a right to wait 10 minutes until I acknowledge him"), we grabbed a flight to Kiev. There we met Papa ...

Sizes, Svalyava, Ukraine travel blog

Sizes

A travel blog entry by posendek

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For all those asking for sizes, want no longer... (These are approximates...she didnt take to the tape measure very well!) Height - 36.5 in Weight - 31 lbs Feet - 6 in Legs - 21 in So Lauren's thinking that's about a 2T right now. Thanks ...

Oops...its been a while, huh!  Camp 4 begins, Kerch, Ukraine travel blog

Oops...its been a while, huh! Camp 4 begins

A travel blog entry by judithchan

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Hi!   Since it's been a while since I updated this thing, I have lots to tell you.  You'd probably get sick of reading this really fast, so I'll try to summarize it quickly.   Once camp three ended, we had a couple days ...

Imagine for a moment..., Chernivtsi, Ukraine travel blog

Imagine for a moment...

A travel blog entry by lovnlif71

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Imagine... ...bribing your way to a college degree.  It happens everywhere here in Ukraine, and very much so for doctors.  What kind of society does that create?  It happened in Tajikistan, too.  One of Chris's friends we hang ...

Easter, Kremenets, Ukraine travel blog

Easter

A travel blog entry by celestecoleman

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Let me describe to you Ukrainian Easter. The cooking began last Thursday and lasted well into Saturday. We made special bread called 'paska' that has raisins and lemon rind in it and is covered with merengue. We boiled scads of eggs and colored them. On ...

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