Volveremos a usar este blog, para compartir el plan de verano de Hanna, Erik & Patrick y para invitar a todos a VENIR CON NOSOTROS! Sera de 10 a 16 de agosto de 2023. obviamente se puede venir tambien parte de la ruta, unos dias o dias sueltos. La salida sera mi ciudad natal Deventer […]
urbanism
Driving through Albania
Albania used to be the poorest country in Europe. Now it’s turn for Moldova. It has a population of almost 3 million people, and it covers an area of 28.748 km2 (so a bit smaller than Catalonia). There were no cars some years ago (it was forbidden until 1991!). Now it’s full of Mercedes Benz… […]
One day in Chisinau
Moldova is a little bit bigger than Catalonia, but population is around 1/2 of it (3,6M, including Transdniestr). Almost 700.000 Moldovans live in Chisinau, so it’s quite a bit city. 2nd World War and an earthquake in 1940 let the city almost destroyed, so what we could find now is basically Soviet style (=ugly) buildings […]
Commuting in Kyiv
Moving in Kiev is not that easy. It’s a big and hilly city. The deep underground is probably the best way to commute. It looks like the one from Saint Petersburg but even deeper! Hanna will compare the data later… In some station took us like 4 minutes using the mechanical stairs. Underground stations are […]
Contrasts and Soviet ideas
I consider myself as left-wing. I think that the world belongs to everyone and that people should have the same possibilities when they are born. So for me it is always sad to see how Communism failed as a system to be an alternative to Capitalism. But it is even harder to see the remains […]
Castles from Lviv to Kyiv
The trip from Lviv to Kyiv was quite long, so we wanted to visit interesting spots in between. Patrick found this map and more or less we followed it: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1ouoZm6ns5tGhpeGLBONZBhE5HY0&hl=en_US Interesting castles to visit, but it was Monday! And on Monday most of them were closed… 🙁 But with also a geo-catch at each castle! Nevertheless, guards […]
Lviv, a very alive city :)
Finally some pictures from Ukraine! Crossing the border we already liked Ukraine. Sunflowers, many cows, horses and goats everywhere and very colourful fields. The 1st place where we went to sleep in Ukraine it was in Lviv, in an old racecourse place (hipódromo) that is now a hotel (a quite strange one) but where they […]
Visiting Lublin
We spent a few hours in Lublin before crossing the border to Ukraine. In Lublin in 1569 the union between Poland and Lithuania was signed, creating at that moment one of the most powerful and largest entities in Europe. Lublin it’s a city with an important Jewish background but we just visited a little bit the town center… […]
St Petersburg, between Art and Kitsch
So, yesterday we left the hotel where we were parked and parked in a suburb next to the beginning of the metro on a road without pavement and went to the city centre. Afterwards by the highway over the sea to Peterhof. What a contrast! I don’t really like big cities, the walking distances are […]
