Street scene, Lviv.
Street scene, Lviv.
I had arrived back in Kyiv after two weeks travelling through Ukraine. On the way between Lviv and Luhansk provinces I had taken a car journey across the Donbass steppe with a friend of Ana’s father, a boisterous pastry magnate called Gennady, who told me stories about a man he used to know who could straighten horse-shoes with his bare hands and who fought the Germans in his underpants. On another night Ana and I spent three hours waiting for a train in a sparse wooden cabin on the edge of Nyrkovo wagon yard, where the freezing air burst into my lungs so sharply as we lifted our suitcases on to the train that I thought I would pass out. - The Breath of a Thousand Strangers
Jonathan Campion
Jonathan Campion
Trip Length: 11 months
Blog Entries: 11
Photos: 163
Words: 10094
January 1st 2009 Borderland. Europe » Ukraine » Lviv
January 31st 2009 The Breath of a Thousand Strangers. Europe » Ukraine » Kyiv » Lybidska
May 21st 2009 Love and the Lavra - part two. Europe » Ukraine » Kyiv » Livoberezhna
June 7th 2009 Balls to Bureaucracy. Europe » Ukraine » Kyiv » Maidan Nezalezhnosti
June 12th 2009 The Way To Pushcha Voditsa. Europe » Ukraine » Kyivska oblast » Pushcha Voditsa
June 23rd 2009 The Storm Before The Calm. Europe » Ukraine » Kyiv » Zoloti Vorota
July 16th 2009 Highland Games. Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland » Isle of Mull
September 4th 2009 Photo set: The Dragon Slayer and the Pop Star. Europe » Ukraine
October 26th 2009 The Lie-in, the Witch and the Bathtub. Europe
November 3rd 2009 Winter Routines. Europe » Ukraine » Kyiv