Львів
Travel Blogs from Львів, Ukraine
Walk Till You Drop
So I started out the day on a mission to change currency. The previous two weeks saw Ukraine completely change it's foreign currency situation in an effort to curb the black market currency exchange. The new legislation required money ...
One last full day
... ;After a coke and pastry i headed to the tomb of the unknown soldier and walked through the park, past the government buildings and Ukraine House to arrive back at independance square. Due to aching feet, i took my time, stopping for coffee and rest ...
L'viv
... 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 ...
Landed
... the customs officer and refuse to move, at which point, they were put through quickly (minus the smile and welcome to Ukraine phrase). Once through customs, I ran into another obstacle, money. Two weeks earlier, in an effort to stop the illegal exchange ...
Sicko
... do you have this berada?" He asked, pointing to my beard. "In Canada it means you are traveling" I respond. "OK, but in Ukraine, berada means...um...how you say...fool who does not know anythings" And suddenly, i felt like a berada. As if it ...
THE THRILL OF THE WILD UNKNOWN
... 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 ...
The Heart of the City
... their love of the soviet era, you would be hard pressed to find a supporter of Stalin. Through his oppression of Ukraine and engineered famines, millions in the Ukraine died. During the second world war, Ukraine was sacrificed by Stalin as they ...
ILLEGAL ENTRY #6 (RUSSIA TO UKRAINE)
... 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 ...
Up and Atom Fallout Boy!
... ; It was the first time in history that man lost control of nuclear power and it's affects still riddle the people of Ukraine and Belarus with thyroid cancer. It cause the Soviet Union and all the world realize the need for nuclear transparency and ...
Khmelnitskiy, Independance Day
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 ...
Goodbye Kiev
After an uneventful final day in Kiev, i gave up my search for a Ukrainian bandura. Heading to the airport was a wonderful treat as the traffic congestion made me check my watch every fifteen minutes. Once arriving at the ...
Khmelnitskiy
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
... 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
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! :)
... 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
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
... 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
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
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
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 ...
Living The Dream
... !!! 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
... 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!!
... 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
... 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!
... 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
... 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!
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 ...
