September, 2013
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Our second and final day in the Zone began at a more leisurely start of 10:45, when we were picked up from the lovely ‘Chernobyl Cottage’ by our driver for the day (who spoke more English than the bus driver from the previous day, and was a lovely chap), and set off for the 30km Zone checkpoint, arriving at 11:00 – ‘Visitors†[…]
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Independence Square Metro
Our day began at 08:15 when we were picked up by a representative of our chosen tour company at our apartment on Ploscha Lva Tolstoho, who delivered us to Independence Square for the 08:45 group meeting at our tour bus.
Bizarrely for us (but something that seems normal here in Ukraine judging by our other experie […] -
Looking out of Kiev from near the upper Funicular station
This morning at 5AM my girlfriend and I headed off to London Heathrow airport for our flight to Kiev, Ukraine!
After an early flight of about three hours, we arrived at Kiev Borispol and managed to get the ‘SkyBus’ to the Kiev Central train station.
Doing this, a […]