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Kamianets - Podil'sky - Ivano Frankivsk - Lviv, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Kamianets - Podil'sky - Ivano Frankivsk - Lviv

A travel blog entry by rebecca.mcneal

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... ;льський A MUST SEE town!  Listed as one of the 7 wonders of Ukraine! Supposedly Kamyanets was protecting humans in the first millennium.  It is said that Ptolemy the Greek geographer traveled ...

Birthday, Spring and a New Apartment!, Sokal, Ukraine travel blog

Birthday, Spring and a New Apartment!

A travel blog entry by peacecorpsliz

... repaired ASAP. It's a lot more stress than I imagined, but at least I'm not in a hut with insects the size of my face. Ukraine is teaching me not to have so many expectations, and to go with the flow, to focus on one small hurdle at a time. Take ...

WE'RE GOING TO KIEV, UKRAINE, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

WE'RE GOING TO KIEV, UKRAINE

A travel blog entry by dancejill

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... google apartments for rent. Once settle in and the formalities out of the way, the woman doesn't speak English and of course our Ukraine/Russian is non existent, we head out looking for a restaurant for diner. We are looking for local food, but end up ...

FIRST DAY TOURING KIEV, UKRAINE, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

FIRST DAY TOURING KIEV, UKRAINE

A travel blog entry by dancejill

... sandwiches, the toaster didn't work! We begin our walk looking for St. Sophia Cathedral Monastery, this is the oldest stone made Kiev Church. It was built in the 11th century. Prince Yaroslav Mudry is buried here. This is now a museum. The doors ...

Free parking, Kiev , Ukraine travel blog

Free parking

A travel blog entry by peyton

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... beneath a soaring titanium arch, two giant strapping examples of  Homo Sovieticus link hands in celebration of the friendship between Ukraine and Russia, while children scramble over the red stone sculpture of Cossacks nearby. Down the steps into the ...

Kiev First Impressions, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Kiev First Impressions

A travel blog entry by carpefeline

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... money for this tour and I want it to work better.             Coming into Kiev yesterday, it was pretty gloomy and ugly until one got past all the factories.  In the city today, it’s a ...

fireworks, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

fireworks

A travel blog entry by carpefeline

Must have been one heck of a rally last night.  I went out of the apartment at 4 p.m. to hunt down the local grocery store and find some dinner.  People were walking around the corner of my building to the pedestrian subway, crossing under the ...

Kiev dia 1, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Kiev dia 1

A travel blog entry by marianobracco

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... nos recomendaron el free tour que empezaba una hora después. Hicimos tiempo y marchamos al punto de encuentro... Valió la pena, Kiev es una ciudad muy interesante, realmente tiene lugares preciosos y la guía nos mostró muchos de ellos... El ...

Liz Flombe!, Sokal, Ukraine travel blog

Liz Flombe!

A travel blog entry by peacecorpsliz

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... see a doctor in a few hours, and am staying home tomorrow. Today a handsome gas guy came from the emergency gas agency (Ukraine has a special 911 hotline specifically for gas problems, so aparently I am not alone). The oven dial is to blame because ...

The Dentist, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

The Dentist

A travel blog entry by rebecca.mcneal

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The Dentist Ohhhhhhhhh, Dr. Jon Goss, DDS you wouldn't believe what I just did.  After feeling particularly guilty about not having my teeth cleaned for just over a year, I finally broke down and made an appointment with a Ukrainian dentist ...

Relaxing day!, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Relaxing day!

A travel blog entry by posendek

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... interested in and want to become a part of our family, we will go to visit their orphanage.  If the orphanage is here near Kiev, the capital, then we will probably stay in this apartment.  If the orphanage is very far away then we will go on a ...

Update from Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Update from Ukraine

A travel blog entry by salley_adoption

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Greetings from cold and foggy Ukraine, Yesterday we went back to the adoption center to pick up our referral to go see Alexander. The adoption center office is on the fourth floor and the stairs are very narrow and steep. Our appointment was at 4:00pm ...

Into the land of the Ladas, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Into the land of the Ladas

A travel blog entry by petcul

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... is a similarity about the landscape since entering Poland. Fertile flat farming land looking very prosperous in Poland, less so in the Ukraine where some of the farming is still done manually. From a biking point of view it is long straight roads. Today ...

Peace Corps, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Peace Corps

A travel blog entry by rebecca.mcneal

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... discuss this situation with the media," and to ask the victim not to make any public statements. The incident, according to Ukraine police, involved two volunteers taken into custody after they got off a train drunk, laughing and cursing as one of ...

Attack of the Surrealist Soviet Cats, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Attack of the Surrealist Soviet Cats

A travel blog entry by magsandsi

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Hey all, greetings from Kiev - after a short flight on Tuesday morning we have arrived in Ukraine, and straight away put in place our 'Arrival In New City' protocol. Namely emptying all packs of all material and spreading loosely over all ...

MINIISKIY PALACE AND ORNATE HOME KIEV UKRAINE, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

MINIISKIY PALACE AND ORNATE HOME KIEV UKRAINE

A travel blog entry by dancejill

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... bought the lots on either side so he wouldn't have any neighbours. The pictures can tell the story. The buildings in Kiev are very ornate all throughout the city, more fancy statues, gargoyles, balconies, and decorative borders. We enjoyed our walks ...

Homeward Bound, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Homeward Bound

A travel blog entry by salley_adoption

Oh Happy Day! We are leaving this awful place tomorrow. I waited at the Aerosvit office for almost 2 hours tonight trying to get our plane tickets. It was crazy. I have no idea why it took so long but it was worth it to get out of here. Please pray ...

In Spite of Everything..., Sokal, Ukraine travel blog

In Spite of Everything...

A travel blog entry by peacecorpsliz

Winter is still covering Sokal, but my spirits are much warmer this week. I went through a slump, but I think it is officially over for now. I realized that all the anticipation building up to spring is going to make this the most beautiful spring of ...

Security Blanket, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Security Blanket

A travel blog entry by laurantim

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Nous sommes restes 1 semaine a Kiev chez les cousins de Tim. Ils sont australiens d'origine russe et vivent en Ukraine depuis 15 ans. C etait assez agreable d arriver dans une famille . Ils ont 3 garcons, 3 triples qui ne se ressemblent pas beaucoup mais ...

Heat, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Heat

A travel blog entry by carpefeline

... nbsp;in the early morning hours to open them again.  I believe this problem will probably chase me throughout my stay in the Ukraine.  Now that I think about it, it is a good thing I am in an apartment rather than a hotel because in a ...

In der Hauptstat / In the Capital, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

In der Hauptstat / In the Capital

A travel blog entry by pajas

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... besichtigen). XXXXX Last night was how I expected too noisy (Road AND Railroad) and that's why I slept very bad. I headed to Kiev and found without problems a hostel. But there is only a minimum of time planed to stay here. But I'm anyway little ...

SDA appointment, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

SDA appointment

A travel blog entry by posendek

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... on two children, but just one- a 3 year old girl.  We will be travelling by train with Zhenia tomorrow to western Ukraine and we will hopefully meet her on Wednesday.  We had mixed emotions after our appointment.  I was mournful ...

Exploring the Mother City of the Eastern Slavs, Kyiv, Ukraine travel blog

Exploring the Mother City of the Eastern Slavs

A travel blog entry by xerius

... way I don't have to swing back through Kyiv again to pick it up next, but can just spend my remaining days here exploring western Ukraine. So with that taken care of, I've been able to spend the rest of my time enjoying the fascinating city that is Kyiv. ...

Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Kiev

A travel blog entry by danwstephens

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... any hot water thanks to the old Soviet system (please see attached photo). I spent most of the day walking around town. Kiev is a really pretty city. It has a much more European feel than Moscow, having many small tree lined streets and old ...

Kiev dzien 3, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Kiev dzien 3

A travel blog entry by asiaexpediszyn

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Szybki wpis bo mamy pociag do Moskwy za 45minut, a jeszcze musimy na dworzec metrem dojechac. Jak sie uda to uzupelnimy zdjecia juz z Moskwy. Bedziemy tam o 7 rano polskiego czasu. Dzisiaj zeszlismy w zasadzie caly Kijow, po raz kolejny z reszta, ale co ...

Back in Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Back in Kiev

A travel blog entry by salley_adoption

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... waited outside her office building for three hours on Thursday to pick it up. She was a real dragon lady. Anyway, we are back in Kiev and have gotten Phillip's medical exam done and tomorrow we go to the Embassy for his Visa. There is a new law now ...

INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, KIEV UKRAINE, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, KIEV UKRAINE

A travel blog entry by dancejill

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We are off to look at the Independence Square. We go on the metro and I think we have just done great making our way around the city when all the writing is in such an unrecognizable alphabet. What we did was find where we wanted to go on the map. The ...

CHANGING APARTMENTS IN KIEV, UKRAINE, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

CHANGING APARTMENTS IN KIEV, UKRAINE

A travel blog entry by dancejill

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This moving day was long and drawn out. We had to wait for the woman to come for the keys to the apartment we were in. Then we caught a taxi and went to the offices to pick up the keys to our new place. The staff were very friendly, signed us in and ...

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Ukraine Style, Kiev, Ukraine travel blog

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Ukraine Style

A travel blog entry by ware_daniel

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... the Arch of Friendly Nations, which represents the “unification” and “brotherhood” of Russia and the Ukraine, under a rainbow-like silver arch. From there, we descended another hill, ascended another hill, and found the restored ...

Attack of the Babushkas, Borodyanka, Ukraine travel blog

Attack of the Babushkas

A travel blog entry by jiewu

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Pasha met us at the train station in Kiev in typical unpredictable fashion with a beautiful Ukrainian girl on each arm, it was his cousin Vika and her friend Oxana, and we all went off to get (re)acquainted on a barge on the Dnipro river. The girls were ...

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