Kiev is a great city. Beautiful buildings, nice parks and wide sidewalks. The sidewalks are so wide that cars park on them – one set on the inside next to stores and another set on the outside next to street. When they want to leave and the sidewalks are full of people it is very interesting.
Last night, we walked down the main Kiev drag – Khreshchatik. It was very lively, full of young people who were gathering in some places to watch street performances. Then, we started looking for a grocery store. It was harder than we thought to find one, but we finally did.
Our apartment is close to the center, five minutes from the main market Bessarabskiy Rinok, and close to a very popular Ukrainian restaurant Puzata Chata where we had dinner last night. The place was unbelievably mobbed.
Today was a rainy day. We did a tour of the main sights – Golden Gate, Sophia Monastery, Mihailovski and Andreevski monasteries, down Andreevski Spusk towards the Dniepr river. Much has changed since I (Bo) was here last in 2005, many new buildings, new Hyatt near Mihailovski, new Intercontinental on the other side of the street, many new shopping malls, including one in “our” street.
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