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
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
Airport – customs – plane. We flew with a connection in the UAE. On the Kyiv – UAE leg, not only were we not offered any food (the total flight time was about 10 hours), we weren’t even offered plain water (water on board for ordinary people cost money…). After changing to the second plane... » read more