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- Kiev
- Capital
- Hryvnia (UAH)
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- 48,760,474
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Ukraine
Travel Blogs from Ukraine
The Sabbath in Khust - not a dull moment
... of testimonial style stories about how things work out. He went into great detail about his evangelistic recent journey across Ukraine. It’s quite a job as he visits people on a route….starts meetings…..identifies leaders, starts ...
Lviv, L'viv, Lvov, Lwow, Lwów, Lwiw, ЛbBiB?
Being in Ukraine feels pretty similar to being in Central America. Nothing about travel ling in Ukraine ended up being easy; everything was logistically difficult. Even the city itself has like 6 different names, which made booking travel extremely ...
Day whatever: Lost track of Time.
... volunteering for the Peace Corps. She really interesting to speak with because she helped us prepare for the differences in Ukraine. Anyway, like I said the train was overnight and that meant that we crossed two borders. The Hungarian border as ...
Odessa, Ukraine
... conditioning???!! Yippee! We get there and the room is the size of my suitcase, with no air, no fridge and no wireless. Welcome to Ukraine. We were all exhausted so we went to our rooms and slept most of the day. Right now I am sitting splayed out on ...
Lemberg (Ukr. Liviv)
... . So the buildings are desinged according. Tomorrow I will leave, to Poland and further to Slovakia. Im happy. Because here in the Ukraine is on every corner a fucking police man. And as soon as the see my forein licence plate on my car the stop me and ...
The weekend
... nbsp; Maybe when Zhenia comes back tomorrow we can teach them even more games. I was thinking euchre would be fun. We had Ukraine daylight savings time or "fall back" last night so we got an extra hour of sleep! Yay! Also, now we are ...
Happy Holidays!
I am sitting in the Peace Corps office again, with so much on my mind and only a few moments to write. I have been thinking more of friends and family these past 3 days than ever before. I wish I could have shared my "Swearing In" ceremony with all of ...
Teaching English
... Community college for the underprivileged and disabled has also got some ideas for a project. They have 60 branches around Ukraine and 46,000 students! I have been in contact with my University professors and advisors and they are happy ...
A case of the Mondays
... dreaded overnight train. In Kiev she will stay with us in our apartment until we get her passport and can fly out of Ukraine! It is still sounding like we will fly out sometime in early November. We did some shoppping today at the local ...
Intense day with Chernobyl Children at
... Yushchenko whose term runs out in January. He had promised so much in his campaigning and there was great hope for Ukraine, but he has not fulfilled hardly any of his promises. Instead his speeches blamed various likely targets: the opposition ...
Perekopovka
I've spent the last couple of days with Tatiana's family in rural Ukraine. It's quite a contrast to Kiev, which appears relatively affluent. Most people here seem quite poor. There's electricity, but no running water. Under the old system most people ...
A Ukrainian Wedding
... I just posted an entry, I MUST tell you about the wedding! I think it ought to be mandatory for every person who visits Ukraine to experience a traditional wedding. It was simply the BEST party I have ever been to, and I am even considering marrying a ...
5 1/2 hours from dark woods to apartment
5 ˝ hours, dark woods to apartment You might recognize this number if you have been following my blog. It took me 5 ˝ hours one day to get from the airport in London to my hotel. ...
A Home in the Hills
... the Great of establishing a Russian port on the Black Sea. The Tatars are descended from the Mongols, who swept across Russia and Ukraine in the 13th century. The Crimean Tatars were in turn turned into a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th ...
Kievski
Next stop crazy Kiev! After a very early start (thanks for the couch Megan and Chris), we headed to Kiev, with an 8 hour stopover in Milan, where we just headed into town and just about melted in the heat, had a wander around town and ate lots ...
Our day in Khust
... did not do well. I'll spare the gory details, but one must be careful to mention that are not feeling 100% while in Ukraine. I was not careful. First, statements in defense are made that the food certainly was good. It could not have been THEIR food that ...
I Think I Landed On Another Planet!
Having thoroughly enjoyed our stay in Budapest, Steve and I packed up and headed East to our next stop. We were originally going to travel by train but the trip would have taken 25 hours and the price was not really that much cheaper, so we decided to ...
Budapest, Hungary to Chop Ukraine
... Hotel in the Budapest Central District and head by Metro to the Nyugati train station where our train is supposed to leave for Chop, Ukraine. A train trip gone bad - and good! We're there in plenty of time - it's only 4 metro stops to Nyugati. ...
6 weeks to my departure.
... Maybe you expect some cliche like, "it seems like just yesterday that I was writing an entry 6 weeks before my departure TO Ukraine." But actually, it doesn't seem like yesterday at all. Goodness! The past month seems like a year. And ...
Kerch
View of Kerch painting by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3534/3843840857_162ecfe19b_b.jpg Aivozovsky seemed to take particular care with this rendering of the city at the connection between the Black Sea and Sea of ...
Kiev, Ukraine The whole shabang!
... his computer so he just blocked the most popular sites. That morning we found out that it was Independence Day. The day the Ukraine separated itself from the Soviet Union. We were all excited about going out and seeing the parade and the sights. Hope ...
The White Dacha
Another hot spring day in Yalta and time to visit the doctor again. Chekhov moved into the simple two-story whitewashed cottage with his sister and his mother in 1899. It's nestled under the pines on a hill above town with a glassed in veranda on the ...
Notes from the Underground
... , at great expense during the Soviet era, while they ignored the roads, infrastructure, schools and everything else in Odessa. Stansislav thinks Ukraine should delay joining the EU for the moment. "We are only 14 years old country," he said. "We need ...
Kiev Coda
A cool, dark day in Kiev with scattered showers. Sort of like entering the airlock between here and Seattle. Reacclimation must begin. Rain's a good start. Still, I had time to visit the St. Sophia cathedral, an 11th c. church built in the Byzantine ...
Back to Bachysaray
... from the fog like claws. The wipers continued to fail and Yvgeny would have to get them going again by hand. I ask Yvgeny where he thinks Ukraine will be in another 10 years. He says it's impossible to say. For the moment, the rule of the day from the ...
Whats happenin
So...I know we're kind of all over the road here on updates. In our place we're staying now we dont have internet like we did in Kiev, so we have to come into town and use the computers at the public library - for a charge of course! We get ...
Odessa, Ukraine Day 4 and 5
... cold water. A bit later, we were shocked to hear the first words of English uttered out of any mouth since we got to Ukraine and they were British. I have to say that generally, I have great respect for the Brits. They are extensive travelers and a very ...
Lavra Monestary
... could present themselves and the flexibility/inflexibility of the organization. I do not think John F. Kennedy had the Peace Corps Ukraine type of administration in mind when he created the Peace Corps back in the 60's. I wish it could have ...
Ukrainian Final bits and questions
... and think about these things a lot. Everywhere I went in the Ukraine was many, many, MANY cats. In some cases, it was obvious that the cat was attached to certain people but often ...