Travelers Blog

When you travel to St. Petersburg you should not miss the pilgrimage to The Hermitage or else you simply have wasted your trip here. Here is where you will see the artworks of Catherine the Great. On the way there we passed through the Summer Palace gardens with the countless statues displayed on the park grounds. It is a common thing to protect the statues during the winter and so all we got to see were the wooden boxes that housed these pieces of culture. ...  Read more

During my teenage days, a lot of people used to ask me if I was Russian. I was always amazed since I did not know anyone from my family with Russian blood in them. Until one day, my mother told me that my grandmother was in fact from Russia; Moscow to be particular. I was so excited to know this! I immediately decided that I want to visit Moscow and see for myself where my grand mom spent her youth. ...  Read more

Lugansk is one of the historical places in Ukraine that my family and I have visited. The city is located in southeastern part of the country. ...  Read more

This year we decided to spend our family vacation travelling to Saint Petersburg and staid in an apartment. My wife Linda wanted to book a hotel, but I told her, that the apartments are as comfortable and less expensive. ...  Read more

After being in Sumy last year august I went there for a second time. The first reason was to visit my girlfriend again, the second reason was to explore Sumy even more and the third reason was to improve my Russian. I can say that all of these three reasons have paid off. ...  Read more

If there is one thing I didn’t expect from my brief stay in Kiev, it would be finding the true meaning of love. But before I get ahead of myself, please allow me to recount the highlights of my visit to Kiev, so that you can understand what I meant by the passion that was flowing throughout the city....  Read more