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Farewell to the Chernobyl sarcophagus
For thirty years Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has lay beneath a massive steel and concrete sarcophagus, protecting the outside world from any further radioactive contamination following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. But 2016 has seen this iconic scene change forever, with the completion of the New Safe Confinement structure.
Mobile coffee trucks on the streets of Kiev
Before I visited Kiev I never thought that it would be a city that takes coffee seriously, but it appears that the local residents love to drink the stuff – coffee carts fill the streets.
Smoking in the former Soviet Union
Cigarettes are dirt cheap all across the former Soviet Union, hence why smoking is so prolific. In Kiev I found cigarette packs for sale between 7 and 30 Ukrainian hryvnia – about US$0.85 to US$3.70! And cigarette displays were in […]
Kiev to Rostov-on-Don by train
All aboard for another look out the train window – this time the 20 hour journey south-west from Kiev, Ukraine. Our next stop was the Black Sea resort of Sochi, but due to a lack of direct services we made our way to the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, where we would change trains.
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Tagged Kiev, out the train window, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Russian Railways, snow, travel journal, Ukraine, Ukrainian Railways
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Bilingual directional signage on the Kiev Metro
On my visit to Kiev, I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to get around the city via the metro network – the key being the well designed directional signage.
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Tagged Kiev, Kiev Metro, language, metros, passenger information, Ukraine, underground
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Dogs on the railway tracks
Dogs on the railway tracks – on my trip across Europe I found plenty of them.
Ukrainian Railways and bomb threats
Given all of the civil unrest currently going on in Ukraine, you might expect that railway operations aren’t running as smoothly as they used to.
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Tagged emergency services, freight trains, police, railways, Ukraine
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Ukrainian Railways clearing the snow
Ukraine has bitterly cold winters, so keeping snow off the railway tracks is a big job.
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Russian retailers advertising their nearest metro station
During my trip to Russia I discovered something I haven’t seen elsewhere – advertisements for retailers, where each store has the nearest metro station listed.
Ukrainian grain goes by train
In the middle of winter you would never think that anything other than ice and snow cover the Ukrainian countryside, yet come summer the country becomes the “breadbasket of Europe”, as one of the world’s largest corn and wheat exporters.