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Real Urban Decay - Modern Ruins And Deserted Cities Around The World
Crumbling buildings, dilapidated staircases that go nowhere, wildly overgrown vegetation, wolves hunting through the abandoned city in packs...these are images and scenes from our modern existence, though they may seem borrowed from a blockbuster...
4 commentsKiev to Budapest by Train
Kiev does offer one direct train to Budapest, and that train leaves at 11:10 am daily and arrives 25 hours later at the Budapest - Keleti station at 11:17 am (there is an hour time change in the middle). This route of Kiev to Budapest by train is...
2 commentsHow to Make Pysanky, Ukrainian Easter Eggs
Pysanky are Ukrainian Easter eggs and can be stunningly beautiful works of art. They are made by "drawing" on eggs with hot wax and dyeing the eggs a succession of colors. At the end, when the wax is melted off, the patterns and colors beneath are...
18 commentsLooking Good is Second Nature to Ukraine Women
In 2009 the United States Vice President Joe Biden let it slip after a visit to the Ukraine that he considered the Ukraine women to be the most beautiful in the world. He made the comment that they are gorgeous women. There is a good reason why...
1 commentThe Tantalizing Visual Elements of Taras Loboda's Paintings
Taras Loboda, classically trained artist. Gifted and talented painter. Visual elements.
5 commentsHiking Hoverla. Ukraine's Highest Mountain.
Hopefully time has placed some changes on hiking this beautiful mountain but when I hiked it in July 1994 it was a nightmare of red tape to make it from the base to the summit. Hoverla is the highest mountain in Ukraine at 2061 meters, or 6761’....
4 commentsKiev Boryspil
Despite what Chris Cooper, playing Bob Cody, said in Interstate 60, I hold that F.J. Turner's frontier theory still stands in the modern world: those who cannot fit in back home can still pack up and have places to which they can head off. For sure,...
1 commentAn Eastern European Menu
The CIA World Factbook considers Eastern Europe as the easternmost part, including the southeast portion, of the continent of Europe. Parts of the former USSR were nations now considered to be in Eastern Europe (see map to the right). In addition,...
4 commentsHow to get from Kiev to Kharkov
Kharkov city is located in eastern Ukraine and is just over 300 miles from the capital Kiev. The city is home to the Metallist football team and is also the educational hub of the country. While it is...
0 commentsMy favorite places in Kiev. Part 1: Architecture
List of "must see" places in Kiev from local. This time architecture.
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