Odessa
August 13th 2012 Our apartment was a good central location close to the main pedestrian street (Deribasovskaya I think) full of resturants and close to most attractions. Everyone speaks Russian with most signage in Ukrainian. The street signs are huge; seems like they feel the need to use every letter in the alphbet for each one.
The Potemkin staircase is a set of 192 steps leading to Odessa's port. (Odessa
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