Getting from Tartu, Estonia to Riga, Latvia proved to be easy in the end, but initially was a bit more difficult than I expected. I headed to Tartu from Tallinn and based on what I read online, I figured I could just hop a bus out of Tartu to Riga a day later without any issues. […]
Category Archives: Central & Eastern Europe
Vitebsk was not actually a city I chose to go to. To get to Belarus, my boyfriend and I had to go through a tour agency to obtain our letters of invitation to the country. They also assist you in planning your stay in the country. When I told Tatyana, our tour agent, that we […]
As most of you already know, Belarus was super high on my travel dream list for a very long time. Many of you also know that I had previously planned a trip there for December 2012, which did not end up happening, and I consequently rebooked it for March 2013. I had so many thoughts […]
When I was in Ukraine, I had the opportunity to visit the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum in Kiev… a museum dedicated to the events on April 26, 1986, and what has transpired since. My plan when heading to Ukraine was to actually visit Pripyat/Chernobyl itself, but the tours were shut down indefinitely so I had […]