Category: Ukraine
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Ukraine: What’s Going On?
Although I don’t consider myself particularly interested in politics, the current mess in Ukraine is hard to miss. It seems that the powers that be, aren’t, and the powers that want to be, aren’t. And that leaves a whole bunch of people pissed off about their future. The basic premise is that Ukraine wants to…
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Happy Ukrainian New Year!
Alright, so January 14th – ish is the New Year celebration for what I’ve known as “Ukrainian New Year’s”. The date, of course, is according to the Gregorian Calendar calendar, which is given to us thanks to Pope Gregory XIII way back in 1582. Anyway, as kids growing up in the Ukrainian tradition, we’d visit…
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Poland and Ukraine: The Homelands
Canada: Winnipeg, The Great Canadian Shield bus trip, Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto Poland: Warsaw, Łódż, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Sopot, Toruń, Poznań, Wrocław, Kraków, Auschwitz, Rzeszow, Lubaczow, Stare Brusno, Przemyśl Ukraine: L’viv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Yeompil, Sokolivka Although my trip to Poland and Ukraine was not as epic in terms of breadth as my Asian adventures, it was…
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Przemyśl and Warsaw, Poland: A Return to… Civilization(?!)
And so after four months in Ukraine, I wanted to make my way back home for a cousin’s wedding to happen in July. After enduring yet another 23-hour train ride from Kharkiv to Lviv to visit my Ukrainian family, I took the bus from Lviv to Sheheni, on the Ukrainian-Poland border. I had overstayed my…
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Przemyśl and Warsaw, Poland: A Return to… Civilization(?!)
And so after four months in Ukraine, I wanted to make my way back home for a cousin’s wedding to happen in July. After enduring yet another 23-hour train ride from Kharkiv to Lviv to visit my Ukrainian family, I took the bus from Lviv to Sheheni, on the Ukrainian-Poland border. I had overstayed my…