Independence Square fireworks, New Year's eve.
Independence Square fireworks, New Year's eve.
Kyiv.
For New Year's Eve we invited our friends Jared, Joel and Lyuda to a party of our own, and on the evening of the 30th I strolled with Ana around the Lukyanivska market to find some fresh food for a buffet. The market, usually filled with the sound of noisy haggling and rustling shopping bags, becomes calmer at night, the fruit sellers pacified by the cold air and only pointing out the ripest bunch of bananas on their stall when they sense an imminent sale. People were hurrying between the rows of tables, in search of pineapples, peppers, grapes, guavas, tomatoes, turmeric, mandarins, mangos, carrots and cucumbers. What was only grocery shopping for Ana was an evening out for me; I followed my nose to the tables of spices, tried to decipher their names from the loopy handwriting on the squares of cardboard beside them, and listened to the happy murmur of those stocking up for the upcoming feast. - Much Ado About Russian
Jonathan Campion
Jonathan Campion
Trip Length: 12 months
Blog Entries: 19
Photos: 351
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July 28th 2008 Shoes, Statues and Szőrpők: Budapest gallery. Europe » Hungary » Central Hungary
July 29th 2008 Podmanicky Piccies: Budapest gallery. Europe » Hungary
July 30th 2008 Flowers From My Enemy: Budapest gallery. Europe
November 1st 2008 The little blog with the little dog. Europe » Ukraine » Kyiv
December 22nd 2008 King's Cross and the Queen's Neighbour. Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » Holborn