http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Ukraine en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:41:29 BST Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:41:29 BST Groeten uit KamyanetsPodilsky vanaf hier KP te noemen Ik had niet zo moeten klagen over het warme weer in mijn vorige blog want spontaan begon het te regenen Toen ik zondag even op het station van Lviv was zag ik 31 graden op de borden staan toen ik er dinsdag kwam om de trein te nemen stond er 13 gradenMaandag ben ik 's middags langs een winkel van Kyivstar gegaan van de mobiele telef http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/blog-301031.html Nog steeds groeten uit Lviv Even wat dingen uitzoeken op internet SMS versturen doet 't nog steeds niet maar ontvangen werkt prima dank Simone en Stefan.Gisteren een hoop gezien in de stad oude gebouwen museum een aantal kerken. Vandaag kom ik tot de conclusie dat ik 't meeste wat ik wou zien hier wel gezien heb dus niet veel gedaan vandaag op een terras gezeten met een kop koffie en http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Lviv/blog-299622.html Nogmaals groeten uit LvivGisteren was een dag voor allerlei klusjes. Zo is het gelukt een SIMkaart te kopen voor slechts 25 hryvnia dat is 350 euro waarmee ik kan bellen gebeld worden SMSjes ontvangen... maar geen SMSjes versturen. Misschien moet ik daar nog iets voor doen ik heb al wat rondgekeken op internet en een vraag op een forum gesteld wie weet.Dus had je altijd al eens een http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Lviv/blog-299030.html Groeten uit Lviv oftewel Lvov oftewel Lwow Dat is in 't Oekraiens Russisch en Pools. Het is gelukt om Oekraine te bereikenVanuit Bardejov ben ik met 3 bussen gegaan eerst naar Presov en dan naar Michalovce om daar de bus de grens over te nemen. Immigration card invullen dit is weer een echte grensovergang de Europese Unie uit. Vlak voor de grens koopt de buschauffeur nog wat spullen i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Lviv/blog-298695.html Some pictures that there is no room for in my next diary or which I missed when writing previous ones that would otherwise have gone to waste.Some are of a barbecue with friends one Saturday evening others are from various strolls around the centre of Kyiv after work or at weekends.As with all of my diaries click on any photo to enlarge it and then click on slideshow to see them in sequen http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kyiv/blog-297414.html Eine nicht sehr reiche Stadt aber muss wohl super sein in ihr zu leben. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-294850.html Elindultunk Krimbol Moszkvaba.Kotottpalyas kozlekedesi eszkozokbol ezuttal a vilag leghosszab trolibusz viszonylatat vettuk igenybe mely a Jalta es Simferopol kozti 86 kmes kozuti tavolsagot hidalja at.Jo koran felkeltunk h a varosra is jusson ido mielott tovabbmegyunk.Ez csak annyit eredmenyezett hogy Igor 5 perccel indulas utan komaba esett es vegigaludta az utat.Zsombornak meg ket es felor http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/blog-294352.html Fixing a hole We arrived at the Bus station after sitting 5 hours on a Rackety bus. If I ever drop the big one on the Lottery I will give the Moldovan Government 1 million Euros to tarmac the road from Chisinau to Odessa the roads has more pot holes in them than the surface of the moon.We had 5 hours or so to kill before our train to Kharkiv was due to depart. Our Travel mission was to visit Kha http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kharkiv/blog-291943.html Nna asszem ittmaradunk.Minden jo.Bar ma kivitettuk magunkat egy motorcsonakkal a tengerre ami visszafele jovet lerohadt.De nem volt gaz mert Dmitriy felhivta a spanjait a kikotobol akik valszleg a PIMPMYBOATtal csinaltattak meg a hajojukat amibol dongott a GOA aimhez FelelemesreszketesLasvegas szerkoban nyomtak.Szerencsepontjaink a maxon. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Krim/blog-291660.html Partot ertunk Sevastopolban tegnap reggel masfel napi vodkazas meg zabalas utan.A Sevastopol1 luxiuskabinjaban megtett 500kmt Zsombor jol Igor kielegitoen birta aktiv dedalonozas mellett.A nyilttengeri napfelkeltekkel utunk lassan eleri a spiritualis reszt.Bar mindkettot lekestuk 5 perccel.Igor unokatesojanal es nagynenijenel kvartelyoztuk be magunkat Jalta sziveben.A turistaszezon meg nem in http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Krim/blog-290387.html Rule number 1For woman rule number one when going out at night dress hot very hot the hotter the better. Minimini skirts skin tight jeans spandex thongs skin tight dresses and no bras. Do guys dress hot Umm sorry I was distracted what was the question againRule number 2Itrsquos always a safe bet to err on the side of stylish brand name designer clothes. Dolce and Gabbana Cha http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Odessa/blog-290327.html Thursday June 19 2008If you recall yesterday we visited a beautiful cathedral named St Sophia's. We were very unexpectedly treated to a mini recital by a group of five orthodox monks. They were robed very elaborately in tapestry and velvet robes and they chanted and sang a few medieval songs. It was quite beautiful and really set the tone for our visit when all of a sudden out of the back of t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kyiv/blog-289496.html Monday June 16 2008Alarm didn't go off Fortunately we also requested a wake up call. Checked in at airport. Betty got boarding passes all the way to Kiev Lynda only got through to Munich. Airline rep said it was no problem but I think Betty has arranged to dump me and pick up a big blone German herr for the rest of the trip.We're having breakfast at Ruby's Diner in the airport. Our first fl http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-288853.html The Greeks originally settled this part of the Black Sea. History explains why there are no wheelchair users. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Odessa/blog-288430.html The concert by Sir Paul McCartney on Independence Square on June 14th the biggest outdoor event of Ukraine's year coincided with a spectacular storm. Rain fell out of a sky the colour of Donbass coal and saturated our hair and clothes as soon as we stepped out of the metro. The street between Evropeiska Ploshcha and Independence Square flooded in the time it took Ana and me to gratefully slurp http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kyiv/Maidan-Nezalezhnosti/blog-288396.html The most entertaining moments in Ukraine are the ones that come around when you least expect them like a conversation I had in the chemist in my neighbourhood late one night with a man and his dog. They had been chased away from the local market earlier in the day the man explained with mischievous pride after the dog had tipped over a stall and stolen a lady's carrots.When they arrived home f http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kyiv/Druzhby-Narodiv/blog-288390.html Have you been at museum under open sky There are a lot of such in order to preserve soul of bygone days which could not cover under the glass. Being at such place always tried with thought and feeling recur to that times and feel deeply thoughts and feelings of humans who touched and used these things. Sizes of the museums are as a rule from several meters to several kilometers. But museum with http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/blog-287764.html Odessa is proving to be a very interesting city. In many ways I suspect it is similar to what Prague might have been 15 years ago. It is still emerging from the shadows of communism and embracing capitalism and corruption. The city is only two hundred years old. Catherine the Great decided she wanted a port on the Black Sea so sent her army here to defeat the Turks and build a modern city. Arch http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Odessa/blog-286532.html So im back at the HQ waiting to go see the denist...bc of course my wisdom tooth decided to come in...but now i have better dental insurance. I just took my Language exam yesterday...im learning ukrainian...and i think it went ok but we will see when the final results come in. Who knows nothing too much has happened except we had our summer camp and community project. Our community project was a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/blog-286436.html Hello AllDespite the ups and downs of our Eastern European Road trip we decided that we still should give it another shot. We hopped on a night train the nicest night train that we have been on so far and headed off to Ukraine. When we boarded the train we ran into 6 Edmontonians who were on a 6 week study trip essentially and extended vacation with 9 hours of class a week and excursions on http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Lviv/blog-283995.html So we knew it wouldn't be easy. Brad bought the Lonely Planet guide to Ukraine and here is it's advice to wheelchair travelersDisabled TravelersEven Kyiv the bestequipped Ukranian city is not that friendly to people with disabilities. The rest of the country is worse. Uneven pavements steep drops off curbs holes in the road lack of disabled access to public transport and very few wheelchair http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Odessa/blog-283746.html Yo dudes finally getting the blog thing goingI met up with Brad at the airport in Munich for the last leg of our respective flights that took us into Kiev at 11pm at night. Things went quite smoothly on arrival. An airport staff member assisted us through immigration and customs so we bypassed the lineup and were met by a driver from our hotel. With a small miracle we were able to squeeze 2 wh http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-283707.html Well I haven't done so well with this blog. But rest assured I have many pictures to post and I have written in my journal every single day. I will transcribe the entries onto here once I am back in the States. Yesterday was the final day of teaching we had a party and said goodbye to the few kids that showed.I have so many thoughts and feelings right now I might explode. I feel ecstatic that http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kiev/blog-282075.html sooo weve got about 3 weeks left in training then on to my actual site. This past week our site announcements were announced and i am goinggggggggg........... to a place called Lesky right on the river. the town is about 4000 people. Thats all i really know for now. I do know that ill be doing something with health lifestyle environmental awareness and maybe some recreation thrown in there to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Chernobyl/blog-281408.html Zaporozhe heart of the CossacksIf you want to fall in love with Zaporozhye take a long stroll in the early morning while the City is still drowsy with the previous nightrsquos sleep. There is much to see and do at Zaporozhye but it is a subtle place you have to look harder.flash earth coordinates 47 51rsquo 4.4rdquonorth by 35 6rsquo 59.8rdquoeast focused on a park on prospekt lenin http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Dnepropetrovsk/blog-280499.html With Ana in Lugansk taking dreaded final exams I found myself alone in the flat for two weeks. Faced with an unenviable choice between silence and Ukrainian television I spent my time outside instead enjoying the summer weather and the city's collective lightened mood.One walk took me to the Lavra monastery and the war memorial within the grounds. A tall needleshaped statue stands in the midd http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Kyiv/Respublikanskii-Stadion/blog-279281.html One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey.We take a bus to the train station and then a train to the Airport we are travelling light. We both have a rucksack each and the buggy with Lisa in. No big suitcase this time. We are arrive at the airport with plenty of time to spare we drink a coffee while we are waiting for check and we find out that the morning flight to Pragu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Lviv/blog-278252.html little more on my mind than to be on my way I called a friend of mine in Lviv to inform him of my arrival the next morning. For the past few days we had been exchanging mails each time he reminded me that he was waiting for me to call and let him know when I would be in town. I called him from the post office in Odessa the only place phones are consistently reliable and all was in place.The http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ukraine/Lviv/blog-278085.html