by nickw | Oct 16, 2023 | Ukrainefest
Monday Morning Blues … we awake to a miserable, soggy, wet day in Kyiv; breakfast of the usual; gritschke, meat from a recent feast, eggs and coffee. I had intended for today to be a day of walking Central Kyiv; to visit some sites and to gauge the mood; but, maybe...
by nickw | Oct 17, 2023 | Ukrainefest
Mr. Blue Sky … so, a beautiful autumnal day. And, after breakfast, I headed to Kyiv; alone and to see some sites and to gauge the mood. Dmitry drove me to Slavutych and the The Green Line metro to Zoloti Vorota; you take the escalator and emerge directly beside...
by nickw | Oct 18, 2023 | Ukrainefest
If it’s possible to have such a thing on a journey such as this … today is the day I had most been looking forward to; not least because I have so been looking forward to meeting Serhiy Hrynenko and to reconnecting with Olena Yuzvak; two quite remarkable individuals....
by nickw | Oct 19, 2023 | Ukrainefest
And, after yesterday … … … Breakfast, again; the short car ride to Slavutych, again; The Green Line Metro, again; Slavutych to Lukianivska, again; a twenty-minute walk to Okhmatdyt National Children’s Hospital, again; retracing my steps from previous times, again. I...
by nickw | Oct 20, 2023 | Ukrainefest
Ditto Thursday 19 October … in the beginning anyway. I retraced my steps to ‘The Old Building, Floor 3’. Valeriy had already told me that he would likely be in another city and that Oleksandr and Ruslana would accompany me to Nova Poshta. I pressed the entry buzzer...
by nickw | Oct 21, 2023 | Ukrainefest
And so, the end is nigh … my work is for this trip is done. We had a leisurely morning talking about life in Kyiv and reflecting upon the ten days that had gone before; I felt much had been achieved. We had kept the promise I had made to Valeriy in June; we...
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