Kiev
Weekend Trip To Kiev, Ukraine
Weekend trip to Kyiv, Ukraine is a short recap of my 32 birthday celebrations back in 2017. In short, we booked a central hotel in the city center, used local taxi's a lot, traveled forth and back…
Puzata Hata, Khreschatyk Street, Kyiv, Ukraine
Puzata Hata is a popular (and probably the largest) chain in Kiev - it serves traditional Ukrainian cuisine for a budget price.Puzata Hata was one of our favorite Kiev restaurant…
Roshen Candy Store in Kiev (Khotynska Street)
Roshen Confectionery Corporation is a Ukrainian confectionery manufacturing group.The leading manufacturer of confectionery products in the country, it operates facilities in…
Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas in Kyiv
The Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas is a Ukrainian Orthodox monastery in the Kievan neighborhood of Zverinets, a short distance from the medieval Vydubychi…
Hryshko National Botanical Garden in Kiev
Turns out there are at least two botanical gardens in Kiev. In today's article, I will write and provide photographs from Hryshko National Botanical Garden taken back in Summer 2017.Apparently,…
Pesto Cafe Review in Kiev
Pesto Cafe is a popular restaurant chain located in Kiev, Ukraine. We visited branch located near the Independence square (located inside the shopping mall Globuss). Actually, that was the closest…
Varenichnaya Katyusha Restaurant in Kiev
Varenichnaya Katyusha (Вареничная Катюша) is another cool Kiev's restaurant, discovered by accident back in the Summer of 2017.Turns out Вареничная Катюша is a popular restaurant chain…
Disco Boat Tours in Kiev, along the Dnieper River
Boat Tours in Kiev, along the Dnieper River kind of reminded me a popular track from early 2000 by Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage. Loud music, a lot of booze and hell - it's really cool.We were…
Hotel Ukraine in Kiev Review
Hotel Ukraine is a 4-star hotel located on Independence Square in the heart of Kiev, this hotel offers air-conditioned rooms and suites with elegant décor. It is a 3-…
Independence Square in Kiev
Maidan Nezalezhnosti (literally:Independence Square) is the central square of Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine.One of the city's main squares, it is located on Khreshchatyk Street in the Shevchenko…
Tasty Ukrainian Cuisine on Khreshchatyk street in Kiev
Wow, my first (yet, only one) Kiev restaurant review and I can't remember name of this place.Shame on me. On the other hand it was not planned to make any Kiev restaurant reviews this time, as we…
Kyiv-Passazhyrskiy Railway station
Kyiv-Passazhyrsky, also called just as Vokzalna, is a railway station in the capital of Ukraine, Kiyv (Kiev)The Kiev Metro station Vokzalna is adjoining the complex,…
Kiev Boryspil International Airport
Boryspil International Airport is an international airport in Boryspil, 29 km east of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.It is the country's largest airport,…
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