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Published: October 26th 2009
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Autumn in Ukraine is beautiful but lethargic. Instead of wrapping dull stories around my photos, I have updated the list I made in 2007 of all the places I have slept during my travels. I enjoyed reading it back to myself: life these days has too much work and not enough Tatar witchdoctors.
Places where I have slept during my travels: *
Prospekt Tolbukhina, Yaroslavl, Russia, with an old woman who cut my towel into pieces and once fed me cat food -
4 months.
*Ana's friend Lena's flat in
Nagornaya, south-west Moscow.
*Ana's auntie Sveta's flat on the 23rd floor of a housing block in
Moscow.
*A hotel room in
Nagornaya.
*
Ulitsa Bolshaya Oktyabrskaya, Yaroslavl, with a woman who tried to cleanse me of evil spirits, slept in a bed full of empty vodka bottles and who once locked me a dark hallway for the night -
a month. (
My diary from Russia: Russia Highlights and Videos.)
*"Yartek" language school,
Ulitsa Nekrasova, Yaroslavl - once on a classroom sofa and once on a desk.
*Hotel Fatima,
Kazan, Tatarstan - the best hotel in the world.
*
The floor of a yellow minibus driven by
a Tatar witchdoctor.
*A hotel room in
Moscow with six friends, Christmas 2005.
*On bunk beds on dozens of sleeper trains.
*The same bed as a man named Sergei,
Kyiv, Ukraine.
*A chair in Ana's auntie's flat in
Lugansk, Ukraine - until her cat licked me awake.
*A hotel room in
Lugansk.
*A fold-out sofa at Ana's parents house in
Popasnaya, Luganskaya oblast', Ukraine - every New Year's holiday.
*The student hostel at Tver State University,
Tver, Russia -
3 months.
*An 'international house of friendship',
Yaroslavl.
*A flat on
Ulitsa Butlerova, Kazan with some Finnish friends.
*The corner of my friend Helen's bed on
Tsvetnoi Bulvar, Moscow.
*The floor of an internet cafe at a 5 star hotel in
Izmailovo, Moscow.
*The bathtub of a hotel in
Livoberezhna, Kyiv after my 21st birthday.
*A beautiful apartment on
Vulytsya Pushkinska, Kyiv.
*The apartment of an African diplomat,
Vulytsya Shota Rustaveli, Kyiv.
*With an acquaintance of Ana's parents in the
Vinohradar, Kyiv -
6 weeks.
*A sofa in the home of two American missionaries and Puppy the cat,
Livoberezhna, Kyiv -
3 weeks.
*An
apartment in
Lukyanivska, Kyiv -
A year.
*A hostel on
Podmanicky utca, Budapest, Hungary. (
Shoes, Statues and Szőrpők: Budapest gallery.)
*With an Armenian family in
Yalta, Crimea.
*A freezing window ledge at
Boryspol airport, Kyiv -
six excruciating hours.
*An apartment on
Vulytsya Fedorova, Lviv, Ukraine. (
Borderland.)
*In an attic belonging to some American friends in
Vishneve, Ukraine. (
The Breath of a Thousand Strangers.)
*On a sofa in
Svyatoshin, Kyiv -
a month.
*In my friend Zhenya's spare room on
Vulytsya Chornobylska, Kyiv.
*An apartment in
Arsenal'na, Kyiv -
8 months. (
Love and the Lavra - part two.)
*A
sanatoriya in
Evpatoriya, Crimea.
- To view the photos from this blog as a slideshow: click on the first one to enlarge it, and then click on "slideshow".
- You can find more of my writing and photography on my journal,
Short stories and photographs from across Europe.
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I know you sometimes feel like life isnt very interesting but seriously... one day you will read that list and realise just what an amazing experience you've had :)