Our first holiday since the full-scale invasion by the ruscists. In August we decided to take a holiday after all, and our choice fell on the Okland holiday camp. A quiet place in the middle of the forest, with tributaries of the Samara River. Check-in was quick: we looked at the room, paid, and that... » read more
We stayed at Hotel Nungwi (the name isn’t complete, because its owners are Russian and I don’t want to advertise them). It’s a small hotel with, if I counted correctly, 12 rooms. We stayed in standard room 12, opposite the hotel restaurant. The hotel is run by a Russian family, Dasha and Maksym. Very welcoming,... » read more
The GRAND PARK KEMER hotel is in the lovely village of Beldibi, not far from Kemer — in fact, at the other end of the village from Club Hotel Belpinar, where we began our travels. The hotel is understated: moderately pretty, moderately quiet, moderately inconspicuous. Check-in at the GRAND PARK KEMER went quickly; the safe... » read more
We’ve only just returned from Albania. In 2021 we chose a trip to Albania, specifically to the Primavera hotel. There were several reasons for choosing this trip to Albania: easy border crossing with no tests, vaccinations or anything else; the possibility of bringing in and flying a drone; mouth-watering descriptions of local dishes; beautiful nature... » read more
So, the Side Prenses Resort. I won’t write about arrival and departure: the guides’ scare tactics are standard and have been described in previous articles, for example in the article about Club Hotel Belpinar. I’ll only say that we didn’t even plan to go to the meeting with the guide and waste our personal time... » read more
At last I’m ready to describe our first trip abroad from our home country, Ukraine. We took our first step into this insanely beautiful and vast world in May 2016, and in this article I’ll describe how we stayed in our first hotel abroad, outside Ukraine. Never having been outside our own country as adults,... » read more