My Ukrainian Trip Part 4: Odessa

[Karletas]

Odessa - Одеса - Одесса

Bonus pic for number plates lovers... one of the many Pridnestrovian cars I saw walking around Odessa!

[julius]

http://www.upupa.net/sky/ukraine/img_7441.jpg

this is the staircase from the famous movie "Battleship Potemkin" of Sergey Eisenshtein!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_Stairs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battleship_Potemkin

[Karletas]

http://www.upupa.net/sky/ukraine/img_7441.jpg

this is the staircase from the famous movie "Battleship Potemkin" of Sergey Eisenshtein!

Yes, exactly and being a cinema lover it was fantastic for me to be there! Unfortunately the view from the stairs down to the sea is very different nowadays, but surely the stairs are still there and GREAT!

[Giedra70]

Nice trip you had. How did you decide to go there?

[Karletas]

Nice trip you had. How did you decide to go there?

I like Eastern Europe a lot and I started visiting the former USSR in 2004, right in Lietuva (and Latvia and Estonia), and then this year it was the turn of Ukraine. I wanted to go there before it becomes too much crowded with us westerners! I wanted to visit some part of Russia too, but the no-visa for EU citizens convinced me to go to Ukraine first!