Welcome to my final post! Like the others, it's fairly long. Feel free to jump around to your heart's content. This post covers: Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Russia, Sweden, and a little more of Germany UKRAINE (Україна!) LVIV: Back in 2006, when I was on Semester at Sea visiting the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia, some friends and I accidentally found ourselves in a field still containing mines left over from the Yugoslav wars. I can very clearly recall standing in that field, pondering how the heck I found myself in such an unlikely situation. I remember thinking that if before my trip began, someone had told me that at some point in the near future, I would find myself in an active land mine field in Croatia, I would have thought that to be one
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