At this point in time, the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl is part of our collective memory. On April 26th 1986 a terrible accident happened with the 4th Reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near the city of Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (present day Ukraine). It was one of…
Tag: Ukraine
Odesa and its “Catacombs”, Ukraine
Following on the brief revival of this blog to write about my experience in Ukraine (the first time around, as I also would end up going again for work a year later), we arrived in the early morning in Odesa, on the black sea, after what seemed like a long overnight journey across the country,…
Kyiv, Ukraine
It was only 3 years ago that I was in Ukraine. A country filled with fantastic people, experiences and now synonym of pleasant memories for me. My few Ukrainian friends told me tales of their “back home”, a place in between Western Europe and former Soviet Block where beautiful architecture lives side by side with…
Vanished Elsewhere 