Ukraine List

I am experimenting with Swickis. These are basically customized search engines that you can use for special interests in order to produce more refined and relevant results. You can also ‘teach’ the search engine by promoting certain websites. The custom Google search page in the left sidebar of this site is a similar concept, but […]

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After looking into Poland-Ukraine travel options, I realized that one could get from London to Lviv for an insanely cheap price if a person used the budget carrier Ryanair to Poland and then took minibuses across the border to Lviv. You can see the post here. Anyhow, even though many budget airlines do not yet […]

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I have updated the the blog post about traveling between Poland and Ukraine. I found a good forum post on Trip Advisor that gave details about using mini-buses to cross the border. Apparently, it is fast and cheap.
Anyhow, thanks to Lviv Travel for that one. You can contact them at lvivtravel@yahoo.com. I can’t vouch for […]

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Travel and expat forums are a great way of getting answers to specific and unique questions. For those not familiar with them, you can basically post a question and get some insider advice. It sort of fills in the blanks in your travel guide especially if you have some sort of special travel need.
The problem […]

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The Bradt travel guide says that getting to Ukraine via Poland is one of the easiest ways since Polish transport is frequent and reliable. It is easy to get right up to the border and taken any number of buses. The guide notes that the two main routes are Przemysl-Lviv or Lublin-Lutsk. Other than Russia, […]

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Well, I am slowly starting to get the blog portion of this site going. Today I am surfing del.icio.us. It took several search pages before I came up with anything that was new to me or worth mentioning. I will be adding the URLs to the pages of this site.
The first site of some interest […]

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