Poland, Poznań. At Lawica airport.
Ukraine, Odesa. At the railway station.
Ukraine, Odesa. At the railway station.
Ukraine, Odesa. Toilet at the railway station.
Ukraine, Odesa. The whisky menu at a bar near the railway station. At the beginning we had problems decrypting the names of Johnnie Walker or Jack Daniels.
Ukraine, Odesa. A quick game of chess by the beach.
Ukraine, Crimea. "Cheburieki" - meat stuffed dumplings, a delicious snack of Tatar cuisine.
Ukraine, Crimea. Delightful flowery meadows in the south of Crimea.
Ukraine, Crimea. On the way to Koktebel. Kara-Dag Reserve seen from afar.
Ukraine, Crimea. The Golden Gate in the Kara-Dag Reserve.
Ukraine, Crimea, Koktebel. An idyllic beach with a view of Kara-Dag.
Ukraine, Crimea, Koktebel. Face to face with a dolphin in the local dolphinarium.
Ukraine, Crimea, Koktebel. Swimming with dolphins is an unforgettable experience.
Ukraine, Crimea, Sudak. The view from Maiden Dungeon - the highest point of the Genoese Fortress. New World (Novyi Svet) can be seen in the distance.
Ukraine, Crimea, Sudak area.
Ukraine, Crimea, Sun Valley area.
Ukraine, Crimea, Sun Valley. Locals convert their motorbikes with sidecars into trucks. Quite often the entire basket frame is removed, and heavy bags are transported on the remaining platform with a wheel.
Ukraine, Crimea, Rybachye area.
Ukraine, Crimea, Alushta area. A Greek-Catholic church.
Ukraine, Crimea, Alushta area.
Ukraine, Crimea, Marble Cave.
Ukraine, Crimea, Marble Cave.
Ukraine, Crimea, Alushta. So-called municipal beach paved with concrete. As you can see, it is not the best sunbathing spot.
Ukraine, Crimea, Alushta. An extra long Hummer on a promenade near the beach.
Ukraine, Crimea, Yalta, Massandra Wine Factory. Some of the bottles are tens of years old. However, they only represent collectors value - the wines are no longer suitable for drinking.
Ukraine, Crimea, Yalta, Massandra Wine Factory. The Massandra collection comprises thousands of bottles.
Ukraine, Crimea, Yalta, Massandra Wine Factory. A selection of wines produced in Massandra - ready for tasting. Almost all wines produced in Massandra are sweet and dessert wines, similar to Porto.
Ukraine, Crimea, Yalta. Lenin - alive forever.
Ukraine, Crimea. An interesting set of road signs - probably someone got carried away by imagination.
Ukraine, Crimea. Eastern Orthodox church near Gaspra.
Ukraine, Crimea, Gaspra. Swallow's Nest.
Ukraine, Crimea. A roadside stall offering wines "from the tap".
Ukraine, Crimea, Laspinskaya Bay.
Ukraine, Crimea, Balaklava. For several decades Balakalva Bay was one of the best-kept secrets in the USSR, serving as a submarine construction site. Currently a superb harbour is located here.
Ukraine, Crimea, Balaklava. Balaklava Bay was known by ancient Greeks as an excellent natural harbour. The bay entrance is 40 metres wide, which protects bay waters against storms.
Ukraine, Crimea, Balaklava. In the past, sentences like this one were to be seen all over the town: "Do not say all that you know, but always know what you say!"
Ukraine. Tuning Lada cars is literally a branch of industry here. Everyone wants his vehicle to stand out, tinted windows being a must.
Ukraine, Crimea. Graves next to roads are not an uncommon sight in Ukraine, which is not surprising, bearing in mind how local drivers behave on the road.
Ukraine, Crimea, Mangup Kale. On our way to the summit we passed by the remains of a Karaite cemetery.
Ukraine, Crimea, Mangup Kale. One of well preserved Karaite tombs.
Ukraine, Crimea, Mangup Kale. So-called garrison cave, from which we admired a splendid panoramic view of nearby hills and valleys.
Ukraine, Crimea, Mangup Kale. A panoramic view from the garrison site.
Ukraine, Crimea. Eski-Kermen plateau with the Chelter-Marmara monastery.
Ukraine, Crimea, Cufut Qale. A view over a nearby plateau.
Ukraine, Crimea, Cufut Qale. What makes the biggest impression on the summit, apart from a few well preserved buildings, is a road carved in rock.
Ukraine, Crimea, Cufut Qale. The best preserved cave city in Crimea, also being the easiest to access.
Ukraine, Crimea, Bakhchisaray. A house under a rock vis-a-vis the Uspensky monastery.
Ukraine, Crimea, Bakhchisaray. Khans' Palace.
Ukraine, Crimea, Bakhchisaray, Khans' Palace. At the entrance to the mosque.
Ukraine, Crimea, Bakhchisaray, Khans' Palace. A set of keys, some of them having very intriguing shapes.
Ukraine, Crimea, Eupatoria. Entrance to the Karaite Kenesa (temple) - the only one still open in Crimea.
Ukraine, Crimea, Eupatoria. Entrance to the Karaite Kenesa. The international community of Karaites (members of the Jewish religious movement) collected funds for its restoration.
Ukraine, Crimea, Eupatoria. After long years of falling to rack and ruin (a kindergarten was located here in the Soviet era), the place has regained its original sheen
Ukraine, Crimea, Eupatoria. Saint Nicholas' Orthodox Cathedral.
Ukraine, Crimea, Eupatoria. Saint Nicholas' Orthodox Cathedral.
Ukraine, Crimea, Eupatoria. Smoking is still fashionable in Ukraine, so the well-stocked kiosks should not come as a surprise.
Ukraine. Bringing milk to the purchasing station.
Ukraine, Crimea, Chernomorsk. The cat that tried to help me inflate the fork.
Ukraine, Crimea, Chernomorsk. Taken for a walk, those pigs obediently followed their owner, grunting from time to time.
Ukraine, Crimea, Tarchankut Peninsula, Atlesh Reserve. Atlesh is a place of unusual beauty, high cliffs descending into turquoise waters of the Black Sea.
Ukraine, Crimea, Tarchankut Peninsula, Atlesh Reserve. Due to high water clarity and the presence of underwater caves, this place is a perfect diving location.
Ukraine, Crimea, Tarchankut Peninsula, Atlesh Reserve. The reserve extends over a distance of almost 20 km, every now and then offering new amazing landscapes.
Ukraine, Crimea, Cape Tarchankut. The oldest lighthouse in Crimea.
Ukraine, Crimea, Tarchankut Peninsula, Jangul Reserve.
Ukraine, Crimea, Portovoye. A night spent at Mr Anatoliy's bungalow proved to be a "spider-proofness" test for Lucyna.
Moldova. Purcari wine factory.
Moldova. Purcari area.
Moldova, Kishinev. Railway station.
Moldova, Kishinev. In front of the Triumphal Arch and the Cathedral.
Moldova, Cricova wine cellars. Due to significant distances, practically the whole tour is done by car. Certainly there is also enough time to walk among thousands of wine barrels.
Moldova, Cricova wine cellars. A car is the best way to go along the 120 km long corridors.
Moldova, Cricova wine cellars. In the Champagne area. Sparkling wine is produced here in a traditional way, each bottle being manually turned by 1/8 revolution per day.
Moldova, Cricova wine cellars. Bottles of sparkling wine in the Champagne area.
Moldova, Cricova wine cellars. One of the oldest wines from the Cricova collection.
Moldova, Cricova wine cellars. An underground tasting room.
Moldova, Old Orhei. By the Raut river.
Moldova, Old Orhei. Beautiful valley shaped by Raut.
Moldova, Old Orhei. Bell tower and monastery inhabited by two monks.
Moldova, Old Orhei. The entrance to the monastery was quite recently carved in rock under the bell tower. Before that the only way of getting to the building was to climb tens of metres up, using a rope.
Moldova, Old Orhei. Trebujeni village.
Moldova. Sunflower plantations often stretch to the horizon.
Moldova. A roadside shrine - one of thousands.
Moldova. Omnipresent wells are a characteristic element of Moldovan rural landscape.
Moldova. Blessing of vehicles. All doors and the bonnet are open - so as to allow the incense smoke to reach every corner.
Moldova. Somewhere near the border with Romania.
Moldova. Somewhere near the border with Romania.
Moldova. Somewhere near the border with Romania.
Romania, Suceava. The fotress of Moldavian magnates.
Romania, Suceava. Church of Saint John the Baptist.
Romania, Suceava. Church of Saint John the New is a well known pilgrimage destination, where the sarcophagus with mummified remains of the saint is placed.
Romania. A house in Bukovina.
Romania. After haymaking.
Romania. Romania and Moldova share the tradition of setting ornamented wells near households.
Romania, Voronet. The painted monastery is featured in UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.
Romania, Voronet. Iconostasis in an Orthodox Church.
Romania, Voronet. A fresco at the back of the church, depicting the Last Judgement.
Romania, a climb to Pasul Mestecanis (1096 m). A close encounter with a cow which was probably on her way from the pasture back to the barn.
Romania, a climb to Pasul Mestecanis. A few kilometres before the pass we came straight into roadworks, switching from asphalt to a dirt road.
Romania. A climb to Pasul Prislop.
Romania, Sacel area. On the way to field work.
Romania, Sacel. You can still see such houses here.
Romania, Sacel. Following an old custom, people once hung pots on house walls in Maramures. The tradition is still observed in some places.
Romania. Yet another house in Sacel.
Romania, Bogdan Voda. Gates to properties, so charactristic of Maramures.
Romania, Dragomiresti. Wooden church steeples, typical of Maramures, can reach up to 60 m.
Romania. Somewhere in Maramures.
Romania, Sapanta. Merry Cemetery.
Romania, Sapanta. Merry Cemetery.
Romania, Sapanta. Merry Cemetery.
Romania, Sapanta. On the way to a Sunday mass.
Romania, Sapanta. The young generation at a Sunday mass.
Romania. The owner of this cart displayed rich imagination, supplying it with French licence plates.
Romania. Descending from the Huta pass (587 m).
Romania, Moiseni. Coming back from the Sunday mass.
Hungary, Debrecen, Kossuth Square. Protestant Great Church in the background, and Igor is asked by city guards to have photo with them for their training folder.
Hungary, Hortobagy. The Nine-holed bridge - the longest stone bridge in Hungary.
Hungary, Budapest. In Saint Stephen's Cathedral
Hungary, Budapest. Every day dozens of passenger ships cruise up and down the Danube.
Hungary, Budapest. Budavári Sikló - the funicular railway that helps tourists get to the Castle Hill.
Hungary, Budapest. Chain Bridge and the Parliament
