Today, my native and beloved city celebrates a birthday. I live here, I love this place. It has its own atmosphere. Here live kind and helpful people and the most beautiful girls in the world. My project "Food'n'Chef" I started from here, from Odessa. There are very delicious restaurants in Odessa: perhaps, because of the [...]
On my recent trip to Kiev, I had great plans to explore Odessa (Black Sea) cuisine. People, forced to leave Odessa, miss it very much. I wanted to visit and “Babel” and “Barkas” and “Arbequina”, but my plans have changed in unexpected ways, and I only had time to go to the newly opened restaurant [...]
I like very much, as they call it in Odessa – Kiev route or as they call it in Kiev - Odessa route. Straight, with beautiful mounds, with an ever-changing landscape. It’s just a pleasure to ride. But when you drive for four hours, it’s better to do a stop. And I want to offer [...]
Vilkovo. Bazaar. They told me that in Vilkovo there are tasty strawberries. Even in our market in Odessa you can find it. But I never even thought that it's so tasty. But I will tell about everything one after another. In the bazaar of Vilkovo you can buy absolutely nothing. Just lonely old women sell [...]
Vilkovo. Monday. Monday in Vilkovo is day off. Bazaar, shops and cafes don’t work. The village is asleep. You're driving on like an extinct settlement that's just yesterday was filled with people. But when I stay on the sidelines, suddenly, the guides began to come forward in the order of a queue. We chose Dima. [...]
I wanted to go in Vilkovo for three years. It seems to be not far from Odessa, but at the same it takes two miles and the road is not the best. And suddenly it's just a coincidence. Two free days and an unwillingness to stay at home. So I pulled into the Vilkovo. And [...]
They scared me in Odessa that when I arrive to Hong Kong, it will be difficult for me to communicate, because very few people speak English. But, it is all the fears caused by poor knowledge of the country. In Hong Kong, almost all people know English. Well, I have never met the person there, [...]
What immediately caught my eye in the Hong Kong, it's a bunch of different small details that make the atmosphere of any city, anywhere. On this detail you can see evidently the relation of owner to the house. For example, in the hotel. The rooms are practically without details. You can move from city to [...]
The first thing that I noticed in Hong Kong is a variety of odors. You can’t meet it in Ukraine. We have the same smells. The same smell of streets, the same stink of supermarkets. Equally smells for potatoes, tomatoes and old women in all markets of the country. And McDonald's has the same smell [...]
As I promised, I'm starting a series of posts about Hong Kong, which I visited in October. All photos were taken on the iPhone, so don’t treat them as highly artistic. Shoot “street” is not mine. I just share my experiences. All the way from Odessa to Hong Kong took about one day and a [...]
