Summer holidays - Bucharest, Chisinau, Odessa, Kyiv, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Chernitsvi, Lviv, Krakow

Ciao tutti,

We had a wonderful holiday, but I'm really glad to be home again. I could tell you many stories about what we've done and what we've seen, but I don't really feel like it. I've told so many people already that I don't feel very inventive anymore and would just repeat the same stuff feeling like a tour guide. Once again, pictures speak louder than words. There in the wrong order and I don't know why, but that's just how they were uploaded. So, I hope you're ready for a journey backwards in time.

Krakow's old city hall and covered market place

Someone called him Gandalf, but he's supposed to be God (Franciscan Church, Krakow)

A crouching Jesus pondering his sins on top of a chapel in Lviv. An image one does not see very often.

Lviv's famous cemetery:

The famous twisted spires of Chernivtsi's Russian Orthodox "Drunken" St. Nicholas Church

Kamyanets-Podilsky:

A funny touch, dancing apostles in front of the Transfiguration Church in Kamyanets-Podilsky

Kyiv:

St. Sophia's Cathedral, modeled on Istanbul's Ayah Sophia

St. Michael's Cathedral with its shiny golden domes. This cathedral was founded ages ago but destroyed by the Soviets and rebuilt in 1998.

Kyiv's famous Caves Monastery:

A detail of the strange Chimaera building

The 'Friendship of Nations' monument. It sounds quite impressive and global but the two statues underneath just symbolise Ukraine and Russia

Some random pictures from Kyiv:

Odessa, which we didn't really like:

Chisinau in Moldova:

A grave on Chisinau cemetery, a must-see for anyone there

An amazing fresco of Christ being transport into heaven by angels while still crucified. I have never seen anything like this

Me in front of some marshrutka's, the life-endangering mini buses these countries use as an integral part of their public transport system

A cute church in Chisinau

View from the night train from Bucharest in Romania to Chisinau in Moldova, very early in the morning

Bucharest:

It is very good to be home again though and to relax and finally sleep. Summer has ended, work is starting and it's time for a year of new challenges!!

XXX, Fe