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THE THRILL OF THE WILD UNKNOWN
Jun 16, 2007
(10 photos)
"Hey, everyone! As I write this, I'm about 800 miles deep into European Russia, with about 900 kilometers to go until I reach the Ural Mountains. Eight socks of mine (th ..."
A travel blog entry from Primorskaya by
modernoddyseus
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coffee crisp unites a nation
Mar 26, 2007
(14 photos)
"After the ordeal getting across the border from Poland, I felt a bit better a couple days later when a Dutch backpacker came in, having done the exact same thing as me but he had w ..."
A travel blog entry from L'viv by
jay29
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Over river, through woods to Babushkas house we go
Sep 29, 2005
(46 photos)
"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 u ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
mishaley
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More Borders
Oct 5, 2007
(19 photos)
"I've always believed that you should follow your dreams, so back in 1989, two of mine were killed. I always wanted to cross from West Berlin to East Berlin. The collapse of communi ..."
A travel blog entry from Grenica by
uncle_davros
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Welcome to Ukraine
Oct 11, 2005
"Zdrastuvuitye! I made it to Ukraine! I spent the first few days catching up with my old Uzbek 18 compatriots, meeting new Ukraine-29ers, and getting oreinated to Ukraine by Peace C ..."
A travel blog entry from Kagarlyk by
jessteichuz
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Final Country: Ukraine
May 10, 2007
"My final country will be Ukraine. I will fly from Dushanbe to Kiev, where I will meet my friends and colleauges. We will then board a train for the nice 15 hour ride to ..."
A travel blog entry from Chernivtsi by
lovnlif71
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Borders of Former Soviet Countries
Aug 25, 2007
(1 photo)
"We left Istanbul with a bit of a shaky start. Our ferry was due to leave midday, so we thought if we arrive approximately two hour earlier we should be ok. It turns out ..."
A travel blog entry from Odessa by
laurantim
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Space Cadets
Oct 5, 2007
(9 photos)
"Kosmonaut Hostel Sichovich Striltsiv 8, Lviv, 75000 Ukraine ..."
A travel blog entry from Lviv by
lucinate
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Cold cold cold
Feb 26, 2008
(14 photos)
"I have been to many cold places in recent years and even grew up in a region with four distinct seasons, but Kyiv was a bit too much. It isn't so much that the high was something l ..."
A travel blog entry from Kyiv by
whereisbrian
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28 Hours of Eastern Europe!
Jan 2, 2005
"Oh, the emotional swings of travel! Especially...travel within Eastern Europe! Time Log HAPPY TIME 10:00pm Say Goodbye to Gya and her family who treated us like Kings during our st ..."
A travel blog entry from Ternopil by
drpaultravel
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Welcome from Kiev
Nov 9, 2005
"Hello Everyone, We made it here safely but 3 hours late due to bad weather in New York. The weather here is cold and foggy. We spent all day yesterday in our apartment catching up ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
salley_adoption
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Finally the Ukraine!!
Nov 5, 2006
"5 November: Though about a month later than planned we finally made it to Kiev. It's been snowing every day til now, today it's just mostly overcast and windy cold. We got off the ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
kalendradee
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Ushgorod - a one day trip to Ukraine
Jul 4, 2006
"That was a really good day. From High Tatra we went through whole Slovakia to Ushgorod in Ukraine. We saw many storks and had a nice day. Of course Ushgorod is nothing special, but ..."
A travel blog entry from Ushgorod by
tilman
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Odessa
Sep 15, 2006
"Im glad to be in Ukranine! Was the worst idea I ever had to enter fucking Transnistr. They are fucking around on the border like hell. Without black many you would be trapped in th ..."
A travel blog entry from Odessa by
dresden
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CHAPTER 9 - MOLDOVAN POLICE ACADEMY
Jun 18, 2007
(50 photos)
"June 14th REST DAY - ISTANBUL Istanbul is a city custom made for embarrasingly under researched travellers such as ourselves. There is so much to see and soak up within a 1km radiu ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
barneyandpier
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A really long wait
Aug 1, 2006
"It took more than 2 hours to pass the Polish-Ukrainian border. Leaving Poland was relatively fast. No questions were asked. They took your passports, stamped it, and gave it back a ..."
A travel blog entry from Polish-Ukrainian Border by
whk2006
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Tschirpen bei stickigen 30 km/h
May 15, 2005
"Die Anreise Tschirpen bei stickigen 30 km/h, unter diesem wundervollen ukrainischen Himmel, der gespickt mit grossen, dank der Sonne vom sauber-weissen ins bedrohlich-graue ueberge ..."
A travel blog entry from Krivy Rig/Krivoi Rog by
mart
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Peace Corps Staging and Training
Oct 2, 2004
(4 photos)
"Over a hundred new faces and names, rain, tears, fears, excitement, books full of new rules, sitting and listening, taking notes, a new alphabet, three flights, and finally my firs ..."
A travel blog entry from Mironivka by
peacecorpsliz
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Mullets galore
Jun 4, 2005
(18 photos)
"Firstly, apologies that this is a rather impersonal way of keeping you all up to date with our progress but we are so massively popular that keeping people individually updated wou ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
jamesandsonia
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Dinner at the pectopah
Nov 11, 2006
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"As soon as we had crossed the border we began to notice the differences between Ukraine and Poland. The first thing was that the ride was a little bumpier than on the Polish side. ..."
A travel blog entry from Lviv by
will
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IN LOVE IMMEDIATELY
May 20, 2006
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"A graceful dark-haired fox gave me directions and bus money to the center of a small Ukrainian city I'd just hitchhiked to from Romania. We stood there for a moment, trying to unde ..."
A travel blog entry from Kharkov by
modernoddyseus
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Queuing Ukrainian style
Aug 13, 2007
"First real day in Ukraine, and I've already been subjected to a good taste of the local lifestyle. Not the enjoyable kind, mind you, but rather the kind of tedious bull shit that U ..."
A travel blog entry from Odessa by
xerius
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Budapest, Hungary to Chop Ukraine
Dec 18, 2007
(3 photos)
"(While in Ukraine our Internet connectivity was terrible.....more entries beyond this next one will be coming in a few days, but keep checking -- I'm uploading this from Vienna, Au ..."
A travel blog entry from Chop by
victorkubik
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Sevastopol
Apr 2, 2008
(16 photos)
"Today we were in Sevastopol, Ukraine, one of the most famous naval citadels in the world and one of the least-known cities to outsiders. Until about 1996, there were very few visit ..."
A travel blog entry from Sevastopol by
kfsandiego
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Kiev
Jul 17, 2006
(9 photos)
"Just arrived in Kiev this morning. My hostel is a nice, though it also doesn't have any hot water thanks to the old Soviet system (please see attached photo). I spent most of the d ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
danwstephens
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A 3-hour Tour x 2
May 14, 2006
"As I've often confessed, I have worse than no sense of direction. Given two choices, I will always choose the wrong one, turning left when it should have been right and vice versa. ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
peyton
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Lovely Lviv
Sep 30, 2007
(5 photos)
"Lviv, in the Ukraine is not an easy place to get to, as both my mother and I found out. She was flying from New York to meet me, but was delayed three hours (seems to be becoming c ..."
A travel blog entry from Lviv by
kally563
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Ankunft in Ukraine / Arrival to Ukraine
Jul 15, 2006
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"Destination 32: km47'496 Ich nähere mich langsam meinen ersten gefahrenen 10'000km und auch der russisch-ukrainischen Grenze. Die Babuschka vom Hotel der Vornacht in Borovsk hat mi ..."
A travel blog entry from Charkov by
pajas
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urlaub auf der krim und in odessa
Sep 9, 2004
"zwar bin ich bereits wieder in moldova, doch erscheint die praktische ukraine-karte rechts nur dann, wenn ich dieses land als aufenthaltsort angebe. seid also nicht weiter verwirrt ..."
A travel blog entry from Yalta und odessa by
tina
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Kyiw (Kiev)
Apr 3, 2006
"Hello all: We made it out of Istanbul this morning, successfully got to the airport via tram and subway, and then ran completely out of our Turkish money at the airport. (Which is ..."
A travel blog entry from Kyiw by
lesliemac451
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Crossing into Ukraine
Jan 12, 2007
"We slowly chug into the last stop into Zahoney, Hungary's eastern frontier city on the Tissa River which is the border between Hungary and Ukraine. I'm waiting for the conductor to ..."
A travel blog entry from Khust by
victorkubik
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Babushka
Jun 21, 2006
"Kiev sports the best metro deal in the known world (half a hryvnia, or about 10 cents), and we boarded the underground to the end of the line at Akademmistechko, where Babushka liv ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
mishaley
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Misunderstandings
Oct 27, 2007
(5 photos)
" Kiev has been an interesting place so far. Everywhere one walks, one will hear the click of stiletto heels against the ground. In my opini ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
rballesca
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Training
Mar 6, 2003
"So I'm here in Ukraine. The training in Chicago went pretty quickly. There was a lot of basic logistics that we all went over. Needless to say my butt has fallen asleep a lot in th ..."
A travel blog entry from Kyiv by
goska1
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The Sabbath
Jun 11, 2006
"Today is the Sabbath and the day is taken up with Church services in Khust and Rokosova. As usual it is an intense day of visiting and worship. Morning services were at the Mission ..."
A travel blog entry from Khust by
victorkubik
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Yalta!
Jul 6, 2006
(17 photos)
"So remember how I was told I wasn't going to be able to go into Ukraine? Well today the immigration officials who come onto the ship decided that it would be ok. So I got to go int ..."
A travel blog entry from Yalta by
sunnygurl
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Mini saia, dente de ouro e gunters!
Jun 28, 2005
"Todos os boatos, assim como todos os estereotipos tem um fundo de verdade!E isto ficou comprovado aki na ucrania!Passo a explicar: em portugal falamos de ucranianos, imaginamos log ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
tiagorelvao
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A Second Taste
Nov 27, 2007
(27 photos)
"On again. Off again. Too cold. Too bored. Indecision. I had planned a while ago to come to the Ukraine, and then got a little put off by the cold in Poland. But the combination of ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
claude_and_iain
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Going to Crimea
Dec 1, 2007
"Well, I will try to bring my memories back to the moment when I decided to go to crimea. At firts this idea seemed so crazy and astonishing, but learnign that in the same dir ..."
A travel blog entry from Ujgorod by
gheorghe
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dd
Aug 4, 2005
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A travel blog entry from Ddd by
jinmong
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In Ukraine!!!
Aug 11, 2005
"OH YEAH!!! Right now me, Dwaine, Fede and Jone are sitting in web cafe in Lutsk, Ukraine...it was a long drive from Vilnius...it's raning...we were a bit concerned about our trip, ..."
A travel blog entry from Luts'k by
salvo
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Kiew, letzter Tag des Wahlkampfes
Sep 28, 2007
(5 photos)
"Ukraine wählt schon wieder, und ich bin schon wieder in Kiew. Am heutigen Freitag marschieren die ersten Kolonnen durch Kiew, zur Probe. Übermorgen wird das neue Parlament gewählt, ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
volodya
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KBP
Jul 10, 2007
(4 photos)
"After the insane, ever changing connection of flights I used, I made it!!! There was a few changes in route but they meant that I go to fly on wide 767 seats from Ohio to Dubl ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
worlder
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To Odessa
Jun 20, 2006
(6 photos)
"After our nervwrecking trip through Transnistria we finally arrived in the Ukrainian city of Odessa. Here we took a taxi from the busstation to the harbour hoping we could take a b ..."
A travel blog entry from Odessa by
sfynxx
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Greetings from Kalynivka, Ukraine!
Oct 12, 2004
"Greetings from Ukraine! Two weeks ago, on September 29th, 2004, I arrived in Ukraine, along with108 fellow PCTs (Peace Corps Trainees), all members of Group 27. PC staff greeted us ..."
A travel blog entry from Kalynivka by
jessfisher
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Odessa
Oct 24, 2006
(1 photo)
"Although we spent very little time here..we walked quite a bit of the city. We saw the train station!!!, the Opera House and the local outdoor market. I know that there is more to ..."
A travel blog entry from Odessa by
sarsandmatt
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Kiev!!!!
Nov 5, 2006
(9 photos)
"Kiev! -- Well, at 10:30 this morning we finally arrived in Kiev! We weren't sure it was actually Kiev, but since everyone else was getting off the train, so did we! Next up was fin ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
elissabeth417
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Home #3
Feb 5, 2008
(3 photos)
"Tim spent his childhood in Kiev and now his Mom lives here. So, we visit at least twice a year. It is a lovely city (much better than Moscow!): very friedly, beautiful, ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
tourjournal
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Ugly Buildings and Very Beautiful Women
May 20, 2006
(78 photos)
"Super historic and important city of the past on the Dniepr river that linked the Baltic and Black seas, but with Ukraine won and lost twice between the Nazis and Red Army, it was ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
stevelegassick
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Demerdzhi Mountain
Apr 28, 2007
(6 photos)
"Two days we walked through Crimean Mountains that were full of beautiful trees, bushes and rare flowers. The most exciting thing was the sight from the mountains to the Black Sea. ..."
A travel blog entry from Alushta by
miki_83
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Kamenets-Podolsky
Mar 25, 2007
(5 photos)
"The night I spent with a friend in train and so reached the city Hmelnitsky. Hamlnitsky is mainly a city with 2-3floored buildings. All that I remembered: the vuilding of Bus stati ..."
A travel blog entry from Kamenets-Podolsky by
miki_83
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how do Ukrainians drink vodka
Apr 30, 2007
"ENGLISH: We were going to meet Ania S. in front of the railway station in Lviv, because I was told we`d stop there.When me and Sarah got off the coach, our first thought was: "Wher ..."
A travel blog entry from Lviv by
bogna
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Berehove to Solochin
Jul 12, 2007
(11 photos)
"Thursday 12 July Woke up to see we're in a beautiful lake but surrounded by rubbish, mostly plastic bottles. Said good-bye to fisherman who had only caught 3 fish all night. Went t ..."
A travel blog entry from Solochin by
ced
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CLUELESS
Oct 16, 2006
"If I had to pick one word to describe myself while in Ukraine, it would have to be clueless. I've sometimes before described a place by saying, "They didn't speak any english." But ..."
A travel blog entry from Chop by
rob22
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Lviv, Ukraine
Sep 7, 2007
(14 photos)
"Took the train from Krakow to Lviv. Was an interesting train ride. As it was a Friday, it seemed to be quite busy. At the Poland/Ukraine border we stopped and had to change trains ..."
A travel blog entry from Lviv by
cece
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Ukraine Fishing Trip
Sep 28, 2003
(4 photos)
"I found out early that it was taboo to even suggest that we work on Sunday. Not because of any religious influence, Sundays were a revered day of rest; more like recuperation from ..."
A travel blog entry from Krasnograd by
kenneycan25
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Kiev
Jul 10, 2006
(22 photos)
"The capital Kiev ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
arctic
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Kiev
Mar 12, 2008
"We have landed on Borispol - Kyiv international airport. Now we have to wait till 2 pm. for our next flight to Bangkok.......... ..."
A travel blog entry from Kiev by
paul.plic
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