Kyiv, Ukraine.
Allright. I came back from London and just had one week off. I HAD to go somewhere. So a friend invited me over to Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. The following morning I was in the airplane to Ukraine. I had a great time there. Surprisingly I didn’t take a lot of pics and even some got lost but here are some things that made great impression on me.
Old Russian car in the street where I stayed. I love this pic it’s very cartoony somehow.
A very large and famous bridge. Notice the fences so you can’t go UP? Well normally you can get to the other side while going to the top of the bridge. Pretty freaky!
This is around the corner from where I stayed.
I just LOVE the colors!
In the kitchen with my roommate 
The Dnieper River.
Again the brige over the Dnieper.
A statue in Kyiv representing the cooperation between Russia and Ukraine. Trust me this statue is BIG.
In opposite of the Dutchies at home: I had snow yay!
Part of a religious complex, old but still in use and damn I fell in love with it. I believe I saw some-one from the Adams Family… hehe.
And then I saw it. The Hind. OMG! Seriously this has been my favorite helicopter since I was young and then all of a sudden I saw it standing there. The guy also actually let me in and the first thing I said “yeah I take it”. Damn!
The very famous statue in Kyiv. For your information: it’s higher than the NY statue of liberty. It was even higher than it is now: the sword is cut off a little bit.
Escalator downstairs. These go faster than we’re used to in the Netherlands/UK etc but some are so long it still takes you 2-3 minutes to get down. They do play music and stuff and they look very nice so it’s an enjoyable “ride down”.
Had to take 5 pics with my 18-55 mm lens to get it all on the picture. This building is HIGH. Damn. But that’s one typically thing about Kyiv: you feel like an ant. It’s well impressive!!
And I couldn’t resist to make a cloud shot. It felt weird to leave. The city is so different from what I’m used to. Then the plane lifted off, I looked at the airport, the people walking there who would go by their car back to Kyiv or where-ever… and then after just a splitsecond we went trough the clouds. We couldn’t see anything but white….
Then the plane flew on an attitude above the clouds where I took this pic. Out of this dream, back to the Netherlands… it was very surrealistic to me.
And here you can see Flevoland…
So this was all from a traveling/photography point of view. But this whole trip wouldn’t be this great without Leo, Sasha and Roma.
But a very very special thanks goes to Nastya, she talked me into coming over and showed me all around in Kyiv. She told me so much and we had such a great time. I am really impressed with the way they live over there and how nice everyone is. Relaxed, serious and with passion. Not like most lazy bums we have over here…
Here she’s chilling in the kitchen
She always thought I was “silly Dutchie” or “Miester van de Staak”.
The others called me “Dutchie” or “Dutchie from Hollandski” 
Nastya thanks for the great care and the absolutely great time we had!!! Hope to see you in the future and much love from the Netherlands to you!
From holland, with love. =)
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm
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May 28th, 2008 at 4:59 am
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