Tag: #kiev

A Carpathian love story

No alarm clock… no Fatih getting up at 6AM… finally i got em! ….. it was 9.30 Am and the crickets were outside the window and the birds singing. Our hostel window literally looked out right into the forest and made wake up a pleasure. I got up and had my shower… i am literally […]

Living in a Castle is not on our cards :(

Sunday arrives at 6AM for me and i toss and turn praying to the gods that a few more hours might be up for grabs…. however this is not the case. I am out of water so i decide to get up at 7AM and head to the local convenience store before the sun gets […]

3 Hours? Is That All I Get

Beeep beeep beeep beeep…… Gah 8AM.. i haven’t packed… i haven’t even really slept but today is the day i have to leave or else i will become the best looking enemy of the state! My german family had begged me to stay one more day , me visa did allow this however after talking […]

Lost in translation

As humans we often come across people who are extraordinarily different and for some reason other than another we connect with them on levels that only those two people will understand and it’s a quantum entanglement that cant be explained by logic or reason. Some time people just click like a puzzle Today is my […]

Marrying a man is completely normal on holiday

Proposing to German man in a sandstone cave beneath the city of Odessa was not how i planned to spend my Monday but i guess stranger things have happened in the darkness of Odessa. It was morning and today is the final 24 hour stretch in or trip to Odessa, we had visited 99.9% of […]

Visa Extension…. not a problem!

I awoke at 11.30AM and the sun is streaming in, with the heat here sleep is kind of erratic, it is too hot you will drift in and out of consciousness trying to make the most of the valuable hours of darkness, we traditionally sleep with a window open and it is usually Russian roulette […]

The 2 worst Tourists in Ukraine

After an average of 20-25km of walking everyday , occasionally you wake up at at 11.45AM With no regrets. David is already up getting ready for the day and I’m lying on my bunk wondering why do I have to get up…. amazingly the vodka hasn’t us like a 100,000 Tonne Steam train… lucky escape […]

Draculas Castle

Today is Friday the 10th of August and it is our first day in Odessa, the city is compact and mainly made of old buildings, and oddly enough there seems to be a lot of restoration going on in the city. Kiev was in state of neutral growth, the government doesn’t seem to want to […]

In a vacuum no one can hear you scream!

It’s 6.30AM and the dorm room is literally a sauna…. must be 30 degrees in here and a ilm of sweat has covered me. I Haven’t even moved yet! Today is important cause for 13 years I have always wanted to visit Chernobyl, and i cant wait to get there! The Ride will take approximately […]