St Andrew’s Church, Kiev
I left Ukraine a few days ago for a country even less well-known among travellers, Moldova, but inexplicably overlookedUkraine was so fun that I’ve got to devote an entry and quite a few photos to the parts of this wonderful, fascinating, different country. It’s very well worth exploring if you get the chance!
KIEV
St Michael’s Monastery
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In the Lavra (Caves Monastery)
Close-up of St Michael’s Monastery
Rodina Mat statue
Near Rodina Mat
In Kiev metro
Dorohozhychi station, Kiev metro
The Crimea
The Eagle Column, Sevastopol
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Mt Ay-Petri, Yalta
Inside Vorontovsky Palace, Yalta
Vorontovsky Palace, Yalta
Near Swallow’s Nest, Yalta
Swallow’s Nest (a folly, built in 1912), Yalta
The White Hall, scene of the Yalta Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in 1945
Mt Ay-Petri, Yalta
Inside the nuclear submarine factory, Balaklava
The former nuclear arsenal at Balaklava
Uspensky Monastery, Bakhchysaray
Chufut-Kale Cave city, Bakhchysaray
Khan’s Palace, Bakhchysaray
The West
Chernavitzi’s eye-catching cathedral
The UNESCO-protected UNiversity campus at Chernivtsi
Although the famous fortress at Kamyanets-Podilsky looks great in photos, it was the one ‘big’ sight in Ukraine that disappointed, because of some very insensitive development around it
In beautiful Lviv
Detail of a cathedral in Lviv
Arte Nouveau in Odesa
The top of Odesa’s famous Potempkin Stairs
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK 