#6

next week, a thread on iceland!

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#7

i dunno maybe there’s a statue of Lenin or something.

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#8

given that this is the most useful advice so far, you’re off the hook

#9

If you’d like me to move on from food references, we can try cameras?

#10

Kievin Bacon

#11

probably going to buy the lonely planet book

#12

This isn’t helpful but I went to Lviv about 8 years ago and enjoyed that ¯_(ツ)_/¯

#13

The Chernobyl museum is really good, though it’s quite tough going.

#14

Kieven Bridges

#15

It’s meant to be really fun.
That’s probably why you’re going actually

#16

I’m hearing a lot of good things about it so far

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#17

Garlic butter OG Kievs are the one

Ham and cheese keivs are an abomination

#18

Poor transport links?

#19

@nestor might be able to help, especially if you call it Kyiv.

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#20

Hello! I missed my flight out and had to pay £300 for a new one do not do that.

The day trip to Chernobyl is a must, one of the most eerie and fascinating places I’ve ever visited. I felt weird about it being a tourist attraction but it has been left in a near-identical state and there’s no shiny glossy signs or anything pointing where to go (you have to go with a guide, anyway) so felt somewhat respectful.

I took some crap photos here

I was there for Eurovision so a lot of my time was taken up with that but go to the miniature village, mooch about all the old pubs (drinking and eating is dirt cheap). They have Uber and its about £1.50 a ride although the metro is amazing and has some of the biggest escalators in Europe FACT FANS

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I will see if I can find the list of bars I went to, there’s an amazing (mainly gay but being Ukraine its fairly mixed) club called LIFT which was comically difficult to find and had to walk through a car park and then go up an elevator with a burly security guard (for obvious reasons, LGBT venues aren’t exactly signposted in Kyiv) but once you’re there it is great. Stayed there till about 7am IIRC.

I would love to go back.

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Have you been to Kiev?
#22

I did a general tourist guide that’s fairly football focused for Liverpool fans ahead of the Champions League final last year: https://www.thisisanfield.com/2018/05/a-ukrainians-guide-to-kyiv-what-to-see-where-to-go-food-drink-culture-money-and-more/

Overall I’d say hit the main sites and monuments, Pechersk Lavra and the Motherland Monument in particular. Uber is good but make sure you travel on the metro cos some of the architecture is amazing (Universytat and Arsenalna especially). For drinking/eating I’d say aim to be around the Podil district. Puzata Hatas are everywhere and decent, cheap Ukrainian food in a buffet style, but I’d recommend getting proper borscht and vereniki at a nice-ish restaurant instead, although you can’t really go wrong with the basic versions.

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#23

Forgot to say, thanks to @nestor and @roastthemonaspit

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#24

The others have covered this quite well. Kiev is bloody amazing and if I could move to another European city, that’s the one for me. Borispil airport is a bit confusing flying into and I felt really ill in the line for passport checks (it’s not clearly signposted which line is which unless you can read Cyrillic - learning the alphabet beforehand is a generally useful tip though.)

Free walking tour was one of the best I’ve done. Chernobyl day trip is a must. There’s a hard to find bar called Palata 06 where their special drink is called The Helmet. Here’s an idea:

It’s not for everyone but we very much enjoyed the experience although some elements of design are quite problematic (it’s slightly asylum themed). Had something like 8-10 cocktails for less than £12.

The Pechersk Lavra is cool but use the toilet before you go, the loos there are a bit grim. The St Andrews cathedral is the most beautiful building ever and on the winding uphill road towards it, there’s all these market stalls selling local wares. Some is tourist tat but there are beautiful hand painted boxes and ornaments (I got earrings) and amazing flower crowns for £2. If you bring me back some more I’ll be thrilled. They are gorgeous. You can just walk around for hours really.

Would love to go back, it’s such a massive city and so beautiful but really cool at the same time. #2 on the all time place list.

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#25

Oh yes. It’s got a funicular

For reference

#26

You can do this around Podil. Just a short walk up to the park from Independence Square - but it’s also worth going up/down Andriyskiy Usviz nearby, the one @pervo mentioned.