Our Ukraine Trip: 17 - 28 May 2010

• We flew out and home.
  • Monday 17.5 around noon.
  • Friday 28.5 afternoon.

• We stayed in
  • Kiev Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday 17-19,
  • Lviv Thursday-Friday 20-21,
  • Kiev (again) Saturday-Sunday 22-23,
  • Odesa Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday 24-25-26, and, finally, again in
  • Kiev Thursday-Friday 27-28.

• We took night trains
  • Wed./Thu.: 21:21-7:00 and
  • Fri./Sat.: 21:22-7:00
  to and from Lviv; and
  • Sun./Mon.: 22:30-8:30 and
  • Wed./Thu.: 23:20-8:40
  to and from Odesa
• and could use hotels from early morning arrival day and very late evening departure day.

• All nights in Kiev were spent with Nikolaj Nikitchenko and his wife Tatyana in their apartment.

• Dines gave lectures in
  • Kiev Wed. 19 May morning, at the A. Letichevksy Festschrift workshop, in
  • Lviv Fri. 21 May afternoon, hosted by Prof. Savula Yarema Grygorovych, and in
  • Odesa Wed. 26 May morning - hosted by Prof. Kruglov Viktor Evgenievich

• Our guides
  • in Lviv was Dr. Oksana Shkilniak and
  • in Odessa were Mrs. Tatiana and Dr. Vadim Vinnik
  all have been or are students or staff at Nikolaj's university.

• We went to
  • the opera in Lviv: Franz Lehar, The Merry Widow
  • the opera in Odesa: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and
  • the philharmonic in Odesa: Schumann piano concerts and Symphony no.3

• We had delightful Ukrainian food and Ukrainian and Georgian (Grusian) wines
  • at home with Tatiana and Nikolaj,
  • one lunch and one dinner in Kiev (with Tatiana and Nikolaj),
  • two lunches in Lviv, and
  • three lunches in Odesa.

• We walked a lot around Kiev, Lviv and Odesa;
  • Dines took many photos, see the very many next sections;
  • Kari got time also to work on her Patchwork & Quilt projects.

• An Explanation:
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• The rest of the account on the Ukraine trip is by means of photos.