Hotel Zlaty Dukat Kosice
Hlavna 16 Kosice, Kosice, 61118, Slovakia
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We are welcomed to Ukraine with a police shakedown
... after them to the Georgian restaurant. We were ushered up two steps to a door flanked by curtains into a large private room. Peter immediately drew the curtains to keep out as much smoke as possible--non-smoking restaurants haven’t yet been invented in Ukraine. Dinner was both raucous and delicious. Peter had thoughtfully ordered special food for us weird vegetarians—roasted potatoes, all sorts of salads, ...
We travel to the wild east--via the New York Cafe
... we were met very graciously, and a humble but delicious meal of roast potatoes, Cole slaw, carrot salad and fresh apple cake was served to us shortly before midnight! There was probably a moment of profound non-comprehension when this Ukrainian food met the remains of the Esterházy Torte somewhere in my gastrointestinal track. But the dinner sat well, just the same.
As mentioned previously, the World’s superlative of the day is documented in the last ...
Easy Listening
... t help thinking what are the odds that a real-life Russian spy ring of sleeper agents sent to infiltrate the US over a period of decades was broken up just before a movie about a Russian spy ring of sleeper agents sent to infiltrate the US over a period of decades was released? Of course, in the movie the agents are totally awesome kung-fu ninja super spies, but in real life they were totally lame suburbanite pencil pushers. It's probably best for real life they were the latter.
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The Ukriane
... br> In the end I paid a Ukrainian Vauxall Carlton driver, 5 euro to half shove my bicycle in his boot. Oddly enough it worked like a treat and also being with a Ukrainian meant I wasn't required (as all non Ukrainians are) to bribe the border bullies.
I waved goodbye to my new opportunistic border-crossing associate and cycled off into The Ukraine.
The Ukraine, founding member of the former Soviet block had ...
Drink drink and more drink
... Slovakia started with us going to see more family and we stayed for lunch... which started at 11:30am. We ended up leaving around 6:30 and in between we eat A LOT, drank A LOT, and visited. We both definitely felt pressure to keep eating and drinking. If we had a shot (which we had many.. especially Kyle) as soon as we put the shot glass down, it was full again! I figured out early on to only drink their wine (which was incredible and homemade from plums) and ...



