http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Ukraine , Kiev en-us Wed, 02 Dec 09 10:04:53 +0000 Wed, 02 Dec 09 10:04:53 +0000 Dalo by se rici na Ukrajine na par hodin kvuli totalne rozvoranemu projektu za H1N1.Krome zpozdeni letadla AEROSVITU kvuli nezaplacenym poplatkum pouhych 3 hodin spanku jednani s nepristupnymi Ukrajinci okukovani lidi v protichripkovych maskach behu Kievem ve snaze alespn neco videt a 3 piv na trase KievVidenPraha se vlastne behem 23 hodin meho zivota nic zvlastniho nestalo ... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-456308.html Hi EverybodyWalt and I enjoyed our overnight train ride from Odessa to Kiev. Before boarding the train we were approached by a nice young Ukranian woman. She asked us to watch her baby while she went to the restroom. Later she explained that she was an internet bride. She met a man from Arkansas married him has had 2 sons and is visiting Ukraine for the first time in 10 years. We enjoyed http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-443796.html 17 hours to Kiev on a train with a stinking cold wasn't nice but at least we were both suffering Since then neither of us have fully recovered but we have had an amazing week seeing the sights and meeting up with friends old and new. Apologies to anyone if we've been a little too generous with our germsKiev has been an amazing city and we have no doubt we will be back The question is only wh http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-443263.html We arrived in Kiev after what seemed like a very brief journey and found our hostel easily. It was pretty basic but did us for the 2 nights we were there. Whilst we were in Kiev it was Ukranian Independence Day where we spent most of the day at a free open air concert which had more Ukranian trashy pop and traditional singing than you can shake a stick at People everywhere were shouting 'Slava http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-433356.html Devastation can be devastatingly beautifulWhen we were making plans for our summer holiday this year one of the things that made us choose Ukraine was Chernobyl the sight of the worst civil nuclear disaster in history. As a tourist destination this is a totally unique experience. In the entire World Chernobyl in Ukraine is the only place where you can enjoy a tour of an area that has been devast http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/Chernobyl/blog-420728.html Hi I will be in Uman Ukraine in around 7 weeks and i would like to know where i can find a place in kiev maybe to rent a tent a big one cause i don't wanna bring it all the way from the U.S. if i can have one right there so any body if you know anything it will be very helpfull thank you David http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-416034.html First impression arriving to Kiev was big ugly Soviet style and big but also very interesting. And that impression stayed for all the time. First experience was waiting in a huge irrational line by metro to get our zhetons. It took around 20 minutes to get them. Metro is one of really impressive things in Kiev it goes so deep down and has these shiny advertisements that it looks surreal a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-395128.html Nearly the end. Ukraine is my final significant destination I'm going to tell you anything about. After that its a brief stop in Western Europe to see friends I haven't caught up with in a while then it's home.In a way I'm already windingdown from the trip since the adventurous bit is finished now. I've been to the Ukraine before I have friends in Kiev and I know my way around. I can t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-387923.html We started on the next leg of our adventure with a 2 AM taxi ride from our Jerusalem hotel to the Tel Aviv airport and our flight to Kyiv Ukraine via Prague Czech Republic. Our onehour drive brought us to what should have been a sleepy deserted ghost town of an airport. Instead it was bustling with activity. People were coming and going even at 3 AM. Donrsquot they know itrsquos time to be http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-383383.html Lets get ready to RumbleI sat in the front room of our house I was eager to get on the road again. Everything was set the plan was a good one on paper A taxi to the Chorlton Street Coach Station coach to Luton Airport taxi to the Travelogue for overnight stay. Taxi to airport next morning for our 1pm flight to Kiev then another overnight stay at Marinarsquos Auntiersquos apartment and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-369969.html Hello everybodyMy name is Eugene. I live in Ukraine Kiev one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Kiev is one of the most ancient European cities and is famous for its cultural heritage. Even the most hopeless naysayers will not be indifferent to our places of interest. There is a large choice of entertainment night clubs casinos restaurants and sushi bars of European level for reasona http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-352396.html On the way home from Park Victory we walked past some properties that belonged to the Kievian oligarchs. Alena was waiting for us when we got home and why had we taken so long We had dinner and she announced me and her would go on a cruise around the Kiev harbour. Her friend Jean would also join us. So we went to the harbour and met up with Jean.The cruise we went on was the Latashka harbour crui http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-337723.html When we got to Kiev station we hopped into a Marshrutka to go back to Alena and Aunty Olga's house 040808. Aunty Olga paid for my Marshrutka as I did not have any grivna Ukrainian currency 1G apprxoimately 0.25AUD. The Stetsenko residence was in this cool green apartment block with a nice garden outside. Their flat had high ceilings like from Stalinist type architecture. Here I met Tom http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-337722.html Day 14Didn't really sleep much wandereed around all night then headed to the shopping centre early in hope it was open so i could get some clean clothes but it was sunday so not open til 10.. Headed to the police staion a bit early which seemed to piss them off ooppss....Managed to get my statement done and a ref number for my insurance by 12..Only had an hour before our train left so quickly tri http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/Lukyanivska/blog-327061.html Kiev is full of people trying to get somewhere in a hurry. Buses marshrutki public minibuses and metro trains cram residents in making the London Underground at rush hour look deserted. And why not. Because unlike neighbouring Belarus Ukraine seems desperate to shake off its former communist shackles and make its way in the world.Russia its influential neighbour has expressed an unease abou http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/Maidan-Nezalezhnosti/blog-324752.html I'm putting these blogs together as i fear the next few days will be beyond dull.Day 16 160908. Got up early in L'viv to get to the station as we hadn't sorted out any train times. Have definitely decided to get to St Petersburg as soon as possible so no choice but to get trains straight through now. Got to the station early but train out to Kiev is not until 8pm. No other news we spent t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-324578.html We were lucky to have met Iryna on the train from Kiev she spent holidays with her parents in Crimea she speaks good English and bless her she offered to show us her city. We watched a movie on my storage device then slept the cabins are open in the train but the beds are quite comfy but could not sleep well. Glad to get off the train finally after 17 hours but Kiev is cold and gloomy. Iryna sh http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/Maidan-Nezalezhnosti/blog-324175.html We thought Chisinau wasn't quite as good as people made it out to be. It was a nice town but the nightlife didn't live up to its rave reviews. To be fair though I was still glad we stopped there. We took a liking to this place called Andy's Pizza which is by far the best pizza I've had outside of the NYNJPhilly area or Italy. And it was like 4 for enough pizza to fill you up. We went out http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-323945.html I started the solo part of my trip in Kiev Ukraine. I knew it was going to be an interesting place the moment I landed and the whole plane burst out in spontaneously clapping. Successful landing an occasion for clapping Awesome I knew I picked the right place when exiting the airport I saw everything was written in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. There isnrsquot anything more thrilling or http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-321719.html My first visit to Kiev was in early July 2006 and this is what I learnedWhen you arrive at Borispol Airport you can either take a taxi into the city which will cost you anywhere from 3245 depending upon how well you can negotiate in Russian and where you are going to in the center of the city.Another alternative is to ask for the Bus to the Train Station Poeyest Vagzal. It is a large http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-305292.html