England

Above London suburbs

 It was a sunny day in London, which is rare. I was sitting at the window seat and just about arriving at Heathrow. This does not happen so often, so I took out my…

Ukraine

Shopping in the underground shopping centre

 In the centre of Kiev, there is a big underground shopping centre. Most of the shops there seemed the franchise of western European chain stores, but we found some Ukrainian jewellery shops and enjoyed…

Ukraine

Kiev Philharmonic

 There was a concert hall in front of the hotel we stayed in Kiev. If possible, we wanted to listen to some live music, so we went to the box office. After a lot…

Kiev

Worldwide phenomenon

 The scenery we saw many times in Italy or Spain was here in Kiev, too. A lot of locks on a rail in a park on the hill in front of our hotel. On…

Kiev

Long escalator which made me dizzy

The escalator at metro in Kiev is endlessly long. The metro must be running very deep place. When we went up the escalator I felt a phobia. Because it is so long that…

Kiev

To the cave

Regarding the Cave Monastery in Kiev which I wrote about the other day , once I understood that this complex was started with a cave, and that is why it is called by…

Ukraine

Surprised

In Kiev it seemed not very many restaurants which you can have a good meal easily. Restaurants may be the place only for the special occasions for people there. Every restaurant had decorative…

Ukraine

National opera house of Ukraine

 One of our purposes of this trip to Kiev was to see a ballet performance in the National Opera House. Kiev ballet company used to be one of the top 3 companies in Soviet…

Kiev

Eggs in Ukraine

 One of the Ukrainian traditional crafts is to put patterns on eggs. These ones were displayed within Kiev Pechersk Lavra, but we saw many in a craft market in the town. Each one is…