Ukraine travel stories

Winter Routines

November is Ukraine's most melancholic month. The temperature falls below freezing, and the orange and yellow leaves that make October so picturesque fall on to the street and are trodden into ...

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South African Adventure 1999, Part 9: Exploring Swaziland

Day 25 - July 21 We got up at 0730, and after the morning routine we went over to Borgny's house to eat breakfast. During the night it must have gotten pretty cold outside, but Borgny had made...

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Try and stop me.

I didn't sleep too badly on the train, but I still felt very uncomfortable when I arrived in Kiev. The youngest man from my carriage showed me how to get to the main hall of the station before ...

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Make yourself at home.

We got to Lugansk at 5 in the morning and tried to sleep in Ana's room at her university, but the people at reception wouldn't let me in. Instead we walked to her auntie's house ten min...

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Spoiled.

Ana had her last day of lectures at university today, so she had left for Lugansk before I got up. I spent the entire day on her computer, writing in this diary. Every so often her mum would come...

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