Kharkiv, Ukraine

For four days without let up I've been riding through the equivalent of Lincolnshire. I love Lincolnshire - wide skies, water, great coast line - but you're through it in a couple of hours at most. Four days is in a completely different league. Nothing ...

These icy fingers-o-white Seem neither happy nor sad...good nor bad Just all alone and so quiet Quiet... Not a sound to be heard Winter has its grip on this cold land If people are somehow a reflection of the land Maybe this is only an outward ...

USSR's secong biggest square after Red Square, apparently, with the largest communist-style condo suburb anywhere. They say any Russian speaker in the world knows someone that lives somewhere in the maze of big square apartment buildings.

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