Our life & adventures
Arrived, July 29th in Milan and Departed, August 7th from Cinque Terre As the last selfless act in a campaign to be the best hosts ever, Andrey and Tanya drove us to the airport at 1:00am in the morning to see us off to Milan. We really cannot thank them enough for everything they did […]
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Arrived, July 22nd and Departed, July 29th After a very long and bumpy drive, we arrived in Kharkov around 4 or 5 am in the morning. Tanya and Andrey too kindly gave us their bedroom to sleep in and we zonked out immediately. We woke up to a delicious brunch of fresh veggies with a […]
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Arrived, July 22nd and Departed, July 29th While our day started rolling out of bed late, getting some breakfast and checking some periodicals, Andrey drove 500km from Kharkov to Kiev at the crack of dawn just to pick us up. He then drove another 500km to deliver us to Odessa. The drive went by quickly […]
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Arrived, July 22nd and Departed, July 29th – many of our photos got deleted, so unfortunately we don’t have any to share from Kiev, but were luckily able to salvage some from Odessa and Kharkov. Originally we were supposed to go to Russia, to visit Moscow and St. Petersburg, but due to our lack of […]
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Arrived, July 20th and Departed, July 22nd As many of you know, Val was born in Ukraine and while most of her immediate and extended family lives in the U.S., she also has some family that live in Bochum, Germany: her grandfather’s sister, Lara and her husband, Victor, along with their son Andrey, and his […]
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Arrived, July 17th and Departed, July 20th We arrived in Berlin and our first thought was that their central train station is the nicest we’ve ever seen. It’s huge and super modern looking with lots of restaurants and stores inside. Grand Central and Penn station look small and ancient in comparison. We arrived in […]
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Oh So Ready 