Real Life Captured #156: Kiev Ukraine! Part One (10 photos with Travel Pro Captions!)
Hey there my Steemit friends! In this "Real Life Captured Series" I do my best to bring you exactly that; the real life captured from destinations all around the world! After Twelve years of travel experience my favorite thing to do is walk around! That's right, I simply like to go to foreign countries and walk around. I observe and photograph the people, food, culture, way of everyday life and bring it to you in this "Real Life Captured Series".
Kiev has turned out to be a very special place for me. I came for a couple weeks and ended up staying for a few months. I got comfortable here. I learned about the culture and the people and the longer I stayed the more I enjoyed it.
This is also one of the few places in the world that I've traveled to where I it's not immediately obvious that I am a foreigner. I have great grandparents who immigrated to America who were originally from this city and Odessa Ukraine as well. So my genetics are shared with these people; I look like them. They often start talking to me in Russian, only to be surprised that I respond in English.
Moreover Ukraine to me is a very solid second world country. The streets are not always pristine, neither are some of the buildings, you can see some poverty if you look close enough. There are many people with their own "third world" style stands selling whatever they can randomly throughout the city. I personally like this, the entrepreneurial spirit is strong here. In economies like this, if there is no job then you have to make your own job. This brings character to a city and culture as far as I'm concerned.
Ukraine is an absolute gem of a "Pay Less Get More Country". Everything is far less expensive here than western Europe yet there is little to no sacrifice on quality. This is what makes a great destination for a long term budget traveler like myself. Now come along and let's have a look at the real life, captured!
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The truth is that if it is an interesting place that if with a very different architecture and that's fine I like
What is it that the gentleman sells that looks like flowers is some kind of fruit?
Thank you! It's a kind of squash or zucchini.
I see that Ukraine is an interesting place because of everything I have seen in what you show us has everything
I'm impressed that you stay a little longer, that's good, so it gave you time to get to know the place a lot
Yes, I'm still in the country and will be until Steemfest. It's a great "pay less get more" place to be for a while. Then off to Thailand for the winter. One of my favorite countries in the world.
It would be interesting to visit it, it's good that you're enjoying it
Thank you Andrina!
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