- It's kind of like Christmasy it's just got that tint of Ukrainian kitschiness about it
you've got love hearts everywhere and like - Yeah, they have kind of cheap stuff as well right
yeah yeah it could be a very nice traditional Christmas market but no it's still Ukraine yeah
Whoa this is the life we are here in the woods pretty nice sweet jacuzzi vibe out here
Yeah this is one of the strange traditions here in Eastern Europe is that typically
people just before midnight on New Year's Eve they listen to their presidents
give a speech so that's the same in Russia
because here I've seen Zelenskyy the Ukrainian president speak last year I also saw Lukashenka
speak at few years probably four or four years ago maybe when I was in Minsk on New Year's I've never
actually been in Russia on New Year's yet something that needs to be corrected next year and yeah everybody
stops talking and listens to the president which for me is a bit bizarre and everyone is drinking and
being merry but anyways that's tradition here in Eastern Europe
New Year's Eve and this is the Christmas market so it runs here just in front of the opera and yeah
quite a bit different to the one in Kyiv I think because in Kyiv it was like just that focal point
of the tree you know they had the ice rink beside it they had a lot of people in this
kind of mass it's kind of all in the center right they had a circle and then there was just
like a heave of people there and whilst here in Lviv it's quite long this route down to the opera
you see they're getting a little bit frisky here with whatever dark angel
Where are you from guys?
So I'm just about to enjoy a little bit of a taste of
what is traditional here on the eve of Orthodox Christmas which is kutia
quite sweet so kutia has let me see what's in it there's like some raisins I see some poppy seeds
it looks a little bit like buckwheat in it and some prunes and it is yeah a sweet
delicacy that is traditional on the eve of Christmas it's the only day that you'll
ever see it and it's something to be aware of when you come here just to take a little sample
and enjoy it get into the Christmas the Orthodox Christmas spirit
So the incredibly long drunken two weeks of Christmas here in Ukraine are coming to their
culmination and this is a couple's Christmas period it would be quite a different itinerary
if I have been you know on my own maybe with some guy friends we probably would
have just stayed in Kyiv and just partied hard in the clubs but this is kind of a more
I guess a romantic trip to go from Kyiv to Lviv and then come here to Chernivtsi which
is the hidden gem we're gonna have a vlog about Chernivtsi coming up because this is definitely
the city that no one talks about that I've been aware about ... aware of for the last 10 years here
in Ukraine it's actually my third trip here and it just keeps getting more and more beautiful
overall from you know looking back at 2021 it was a pretty good year in spite of
you know some of the things going on in the world that meant that travel was again
curtailed to a certain extent and really looking forward to where we're gonna go in 2022 together
on this channel give you a real taste of what it's like to live here in the raw east of Europe
До свидания! До побачення! La revedere!
2021 let's go 2022!
So I'm just here enjoying a coffee it's смачна кава and I actually have a new offer
called Coffee with Conor Кофе с Конором or Кава з Конором if you happen to be in a Ukrainian
speaking part of Europe and that is something that I do with guys who invest in my special offers
they get to have Coffee with Conor so that could be you but you need to be on my free mailing list
in order to get notified of these offers I have them very very limited amount of time and I don't
release them here on youtube nor do I publish them on my website so make sure that you're on my free
mailing list I'm gonna put a link down below in the description to the video and there you get a
free gift which is the Tsar's hot spots to cities like Minsk, Odesa and Kyiv so you know where to go
when you are in those cities it's all for free and you will get the opportunity to have coffee
together sometime here in a city in Eastern Europe when we both happen to be here at the same time
and I can definitely recommend the coffee