Minsk Streets | Belarus

Again we must begin with apologies to our regular readers for the lateness of todays entry. We have made it to the Crimea but the lack of internet facilities in the resort town of Yalta is quite astounding…more on this southern tip of the Ukraine at a later date though as we must fill you in on one of the most interesting places we have visited thus far…Minsk Belarus All the guidebooks inc

I’m listing this as Belarus since I’ll have plenty of time to list for Poland again since today is my first day of that two week vacation. Our trip was fantastic. It started out in Krakow with some typical large group drama. We had about a million walking tours and went to Aushwitz as well. After 3 days there we flew back to Warszawa to take another flight to Minsk. Both the Minsk airport and Krak

1202103This 3 week trip had two purposes to visit some of my Eastern European friends and to finally go to Belarus. I was successful on both counts. I flew to Budapest but immediately went Kosice in Slovakia to visit some friends there. I went back to Budapest after that to spend New Year’s with Attila my friendfrom when I was studying in Prague. I then took a train north to Warsaw to spent t

Accommodation descriptionAddress Bogdanovicha Street 66This is a onebedroom apartment situated in the center of Minsk.The apartment is newly renovated to European standards and very comfortable.It has one bedroom a modern kitchen separated bathroom and toilet corridor and a balcony.The bedroom is furnished with a new double bed can be easily transferred into the sofa TV and DVD player. N

I must admit when the idea of going to Belarus first cropped up my initial thoughts were ldquoummhellipno wayhellipitrsquos too dangeroushellipitrsquos too communistic.rdquo Strangely enough the longer I mulled it over the more excited I became and decided that this was just too good of an adventure to pass up. Well fast forward two weeks laterhellip train tickets purchased an