Hotel Ukraina Sevastopol

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... the "older person" on my trips rather than the guides or other travelers. My guide is a retired Soviet Union Naval Officer. Isn't that a mouthful? He served 25 years in the Soviet Navy on different ships which including being a submariner for awhile. When I found out there was a lot of scuba diving in Balaclava – diving on old wrecks from the Crimean War onwards – I mentioned that I was a diver. He ...

... and now the Ukraine. I have yet to go: Qatar, Singapore, Perth, Darwin, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Fiji, Sydney, Puerto Galera & Sabang Beach (Philippines), Hong Kong (just the airport – twice) and Palau. It’s been quite a journey so far.

I’ve met and traveled with some wonderful people. Traveling once with my husband for 26 days and will be meeting him again in Perth for another ...

... per annum along with some buildings which fly the Russian flag after an agreement had been struck with the Russian government once Ukraine received its independence in 1991 Their first president had declared the whole Russian navy present in the harbour to be the property of the Ukraine. Yeltsin allowed this for a while as he was occupied with the split up of the USSR but in 1997 the Russian admirals took the navy back and allocated only 18% of it to ...

... Soviet memorials are very much in evidence and appear to be well maintained. It was cold again today (about 48 degrees F) and raining. Still, it was a light rain, and didn't really get in the way of our exploration of the city. Sevastopol is hilly-but there are steps built into the hillsides to help pedestrians get around the city easily. There appears to be a lot of construction (and reconstruction) in the port and center city areas. We visited ...

... to Sevastopol you make 2 hours with train, and you are going from the heart of Crimea to its margins, surrounded by Black Sea. Inland Crimea is a dry and waterless surface, dependent on the rains, this year there were almost no rains, so the picture you could see was a dry, brown colored peisage. Sevastopol meet us with a crowded and noisy train station, but here you could see more people who fit in the picture of a person who come to rest, I mean in the train ...

... into our compartment a little und** an hour before departure. Didn't have anything bett** to do... Somehow, Donna and I scored the low** two bunks, which are wid** than the upp** bunks and don't require acrobatic feats to get into. Th**e are no ladd**s. We are sharing our compartment with Slava, a seaman returning to Sevastopol from a month and a half in *****ia, and a man travelling on to Yalta. Slava speaks quite good English and tells ...

... Yvgeny had recommended. It's housed in an enormous rotunda (destroyed by Nazi bombing and reconstructed in the '50s) and features a magnificent 360 degree painting of the seige with lifesize set pieces in the foreground, the muddy trenches and earth works, soldier's huts, the mortar-smashed rooftops and the detritus of battle. Then back down the hill through the park and onto vul Lenina which winds its way above the South Bay through more ...

... of the Roman legion followed by occupation by Byzantine Christians. Remember Volodymyr from Kiev? I've caught up with him again and gotten a bit more dirt. He led his army against the city in the 10th century and moved in for a spell, sending word to the Byzantine emperor that he could have his city back if he sent his daughter along to be his bride. Tough choice for the emperor, who considered Vlod a barbarian from the wild north and a worthless ...