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We head west, via Slovakia

A travel blog entry by primaryendpoint

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... vividly filling in what I’ve already seen firsthand.

More on retrospective tourism later; first we have to get out of Ukraine.

Because the crossing between Hungary and Ukraine had been so fraught, and because of the fear of lurking police, we decided to skedaddle to Slovakia. We had learned that the Slovakian border was only about 1 km from Uzhgorod, vs. a 40 or so km journey to retrace our tire tracks on the way into ...

We are welcomed to Ukraine with a police shakedown

A travel blog entry by primaryendpoint

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... was free-ranging. No members of the theoretical wedding parties were in evidence. And alas, none of the brides were blushing, and none could even be described as “glowing” (see photos).

We learned that weddings are allowed only on certain days. Thus today, Saturday, was a heavy wedding day. This explained the concentration of brides, but not the sober faces. Once again we found ourselves not ...

We travel to the wild east--via the New York Cafe

A travel blog entry by primaryendpoint

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... she sat. Then we waited some more. Our lane seemed to be by far the slowest. The cars in the one next to us practically sprinted through, and strangely (at least for us) some cars seemed, with official sanction, to jump the line and rush into Ukraine unimpeded. Were there winks and nods and things passed from driver to guard? That’s sort of what it looked like, but who knew? We later heard that people who regularly travel between Ukraine and Hungary, ...

Once I Had a Wooden Church...

A travel blog entry by eundel

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Today's goal was visit more wooden churches. My book on the churches listed a little over forty. I'd seen maybe five or six, so I decided to spend the day looking at as many of the churches in the eastern section of the country as I could. The eastern end of Slovakia borders Ukraine and Poland. Wooden churches in that region were built in all three countries mainly by members of the Greek Catholic (also known as Eastern Catholic) faith.

My first attempted visit of the ...

"That was a massacre!"

A travel blog entry by posendek

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That is Lauren's direct quote after our first time trying to give Talia a bath on Saturday night. For the sake of time, i dont think i need to go into much detail, but even with Roslana's expertise, it makes me think that:
A. It was the first time she's ever seen a bathtub
B. Bathtime at the orphanage was not a pleasant experience

Anyway, here I am in Uzhgorod, the region's capital that Lauren ...

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