Zaporizhia, Zaporozhye, Zaporizhzhya. I typically spell cities on this site according to what people are searching for on Google, not how I would normally spell it on an everyday basis. As it turns out, no one is searching for Zaporizhia. Made that one easy… Zaporizhia is a city in the Zaporizhia Oblast in eastern Ukraine. With […]
Category Archives: Inspiration
Have you ever traveled somewhere and knew you would love the place even before arriving at the destination? Yea… that was Kharkiv (or Kharkov) for me. The Ukrainian city has been on my radar for some time and Katherine’s blog 8 Months in Ukraine never helped things. The city just always seemed a bit out […]
Dnipropetrovsk. Or is it Dnepropetrovsk? The locals spell it the latter. But in light of recent events, I feel ever-so-compelled to spell it with an ‘i’ and not an ‘e’. Having to give actual thought to something so seemingly petty really spotlights what has occurred in eastern Ukraine (okay, all of Ukraine) over the past few […]
Many people that read my blog remember my first trip to Belarus in March 2013, which was a trip that was initially booked for 2012, and due to some visa issues going through Moscow, ended up being pushed out to 2013. I talked about that trip a bit, but nothing in great detail. Well, I […]
I really don’t know if they will, given my photography skills are equivalent to that of a five-year-old’s. BUT- I do know that I had some of the best scenery to work with on the planet. And despite these photos all being taken from a boat ride that I was livid about … they still […]
And by facts, I mean that these are mostly subjective thoughts and opinions from my personal experience there. Real facts can be a bit boring, although I did try to include a few below just to make it seem a little more realistic and unbiased. It’s no secret that I completely fell for this city. […]