Kiev

My friends and I have been talking about making another trip to Ukraine for a few years so now I’m in Final year we finally booked it.

I got a train from Košice to Budapest for €9 and then flew from there to Kiev for less than €20 with Wizz Air. My friends flew in from London and met me at the Airbnb which was really close to the city centre.

I’ve been busy with exams and vet stuff this summer so hadn’t really researched it but Kiev way surpassed my expectations and was a really nice city.

It was clean, loads of stuff going on, cheap and the people were really nice.

I’d definitely recommend doing a walking tour ‘cos we got to see things we’d missed after spending a good few days in the city.

I’ve seen the Winter On Fire documentary about the 2013 revolution a couple times and it was really interesting to see everywhere where that took place.

There were so many good bars and restaurants that we ate and drank ourselves silly.

One of the best was OB (Last Barricade) which is under Maidan Square in the middle of a shopping centre. You go in to the small reception area, say a password and then a door opens up to a big restaurant.

We all ordered Chicken Kiev ...when in Rome and all that.