Hotel Rus Kiev
4 Hospitalna St Kiev, 252023, Ukraine
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Viis tundi Kiievis
... olla. Või siis koopas. Vaata siit: masspõgenemine Kiievi loomaaiast.
Toimub üliaeglane käsitsi check-in ja tädi teatab, et ei näe kompuutrist minu pagasit. Nojah, peaasi, et ma seda ilma kompuutrita Tbilisis näeks.
Skoorin võileiva ja hiiglasliku kohvi supitirinas. No internet, no bookshop. Palju säravat põrandat ja vähe toole. Igal sammul tšikid tehnikavidinatega. Mina oma ...
Chimp in a Suit
... so I just decided to go on with my day and forget about it for now.
I started out heading down my own unpronouncable street into the "Jewish Section" of town, located just around the corner, which seemed rather nice to me at first. It was clean and the buildings were well upkept. But then I still just couldn’t pull out of my blues. The noise of traffic began to get on my nerves. The people drive super fast and recklessly on ...
Panic on the Streets of Kiev
... but it is an experience worth mentioning if only because it provided an insight into how the Ukraine differs from the other bloc countries that we had visited.
We gained much of this information by talking to a man at the train station cafe. The extraordinary Uri (not the Vegas magician) was a Ukranian butcher working in Poland. A university graduate and speaker of five languages he was working a 17 hour day, 6 days a week: herding and slaughtering cattle. He told us of the ...
"In the Nuclear Fall-out Zone..."
... When you reach the town of Chernobyl, over 10 kilometers away from the reactor, things are quite different. A few thousand workers still maintain Chernobyl, and live in the town for 15 days on, 15 days off.
The area around the town itself has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The name "Chernobyl" translates into a type of wormwood, hence the connection to the biblical citation. The more superstitious say that the Bible predicted the disaster, ...



