Aa usual, forgive the results of the small.keyboard…….. Beginning with the military checkpoints at Odesa’s outskirts, it was obvious that things were a bit more serious down here on the banks of the Black Sea. So why go? I was up in Kiev back in 2017 and I overheard a couple older ladies sing its praises and it always bugged…
I decided early on that I wouldn’t plan anything more than a couple of days ahead. It has been working out pretty well. I stay in a place until I don’t. It works here in Europe because there isn’t much of a last minute decision fee on tickets and fare. Or at least not much of one. That has worked…
I had to fly to Kiev from Vilnius. I would liked to have bused in via Minsk in Belarus but they side with Moscow. Visa requirements for me would have made it expensive, complicated and take a long time to process. It was just a little over an hour flight and when I landed it was sunny and in the…