Ukraine Articles, Travel Tips & Advice

Friday, 12th September 2008
I’m writing up this entry on Saturday morning as yesterday was just dreadful. After a restless night on the train, I awoke in a rainy Odessa feeling absolutely awful: upset stomach, aching all over and shivery. Fortune smiled on us a little though, as our young driver was waiting for us outside [...]

Tuesday, 9th September 2008
A fun start to the day was had as our train rolled in to Lviv station bang on time at 6.32am, but our transfer driver couldn’t be bothered to drag his scraggy carcase out of bed to deliver us to the Hotel Dnister. Forty minutes of waiting around in the chill morning [...]

I’m not really sure what I expected of my trip to Chernobyl. I’d read plenty about the subject for many months before my eventual arrival in the Ukrainian capitol Kiev, weighed up time and again the moral and safety issues and ultimately decided to take the plunge. The world’s worst nuclear disaster was, ironically, the [...]

Friday, 5th September, 2008
I suppose today could be considered the start of our planned trip across the Ukraine. I had wanted to take in Kiev, Chernobyl, Lviv, Odessa and the Crimea, all within a two week period. My original planning took flight on the same confident wings that had taken us from St Petersburg to [...]