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well hello friends and welcome back to
my channel and if you're here for the
first time allow me to introduce myself
my name is Alena and I'm basically a
self-proclaimed Travel addict and I am
currently in Lavie which is a city in
Ukraine in the north western part of the
country and I'm not gonna be here for a
crazy long time
my cousin Misha and I are only going to
be here for the weekend but I did want
to do a vlog for you guys to give you an
idea of the city what kind of things to
see and do and also give you a little
bit of an idea of what the costs are
because depending on where you travel in
Ukraine the prices are of course going
to slightly range so because I'm going
to be talking about costs as well in
this video I'll start off with our
Airbnb this is costing approximately 45
Canadian dollars a night
I guess that's somewhere around like 35
American which is an absolute steal
considering this place is actually
pretty spacious right in the downtown
core we're like 10 minutes from the
Market Square and so not sponsored I do
get a credit if you guys book with my
code but at the same time you guys get
forty five dollars off your first day
and 17 dollars off your first experience
so it's like a win-win for both of us
alright so just to start us off this is
the sort of entryway that is the
washroom we she's just having a shower
if we come into this first room it's
actually a living room but since there's
two of us Misha is going to be sleeping
on this bed and then that leads to the
kitchen over here which is bright and
yellow and sunny perfect for having a
lazy morning in and then further on over
here is my bedroom which is also very
nice and spacious and there's actually a
washer/dryer over here in the cabinet's
which is also really really convenient
but overall I am just so happy with this
Airbnb for the price might be a little
bit more expensive depending on the
season that you come
but if you are coming in the winter
usually the prices are going to be quite
a bit less hello what did you order
Misha very young American Canadian
hipster I hope you like it
one of my personal favorites but you did
get it on sweet potato though right
so that's gonna be interesting so as you
guys can see here I got my bill it came
to 460 Cravens which is approximately 25
canadian dollars a little bit under 20
american so pretty good considering it
was like really high-quality food really
nice place and yeah i would recommend
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so we're climbing City Hall right now
and it's actually a whole lot higher
than I initially thought it just keeps
going and going it never ends
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so here we are finally on top of City
Hall
and I will say that the climb was worth
it it is a gorgeous view of here and
you're able to really actually get a
sense of how big the city is it's
definitely not Ukraine's largest city
that's Kiev obviously with 3.5 million
hot akov is after that I believe at one
point three another city I really want
to visit Odessa I think is at about 1
million and then the Evolve is right
underneath that with about 700,000 so
definitely not as large as the other
cities but has so much to offer cranium
yard kind of you know
gotcha style rustic sort of interior and
they've already ordered all our
different Ukranian dishes but one thing
that I wanted to show you guys is this
type of tea that bits where we do not
have in Canada or USA it's made with sea
buckthorn in here but what I really like
actually in Ukraine and Eastern Europe
in general is that
put the fresh virginity instead of
Mormons like t-bag
so this shades absolutely delicious it
would highly recommend Misha is also a
tea person and this is definitely of
good kind to have in the winter for an
extra boost of vitamin C alright guys so
the first which watches a food calm
journey with this beautiful version of a
salad that I have had many times but
it's the ha'la'tha musica Neely with a
bunch of cabbage and carrots
this one has some pumpkin seeds on top
so a little bit of a different take on
it and of course the classic Ukrainian
dish wash and funny enough I feel like
people actually think that Porsche is
associated with Russia that is a Russian
dish but it's actually Ukrainian and
even if you're not a beet person I would
still say to give it a try because it's
super party it's really delicious and
it's worth to have a loaded up with a
whole bunch of sour cream look how big
that
Portia's we should you like borscht yeah
it's alright I think I'm a bigger fan
because I rarely get to have it so the
main dishes have arrived and I'm gonna
be trying something that
or we shall recommended this one it's
kind of like a forge but they're made
for a meal that you'll kind of see like
yellow stuff underneath it it's got some
cheese on the side and stuff on top you
can be interesting to try that and then
over here is of course the Ukrainian
classics through the dumplings that you
like what's wrong the charcoal or NAEP
you can get them with a whole bunch of
different fillings the one that we got
this restaurant I'm giving
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so I'm in a very unique place right now
this is called the yard of lost toys and
this is just on the back of like a
regular apartment building and I guess
this guy Vasily Petrovich is I think is
his name he started bringing toys out
here about 20 years ago for the people
who lived in his building and the
tradition kind of continued where other
people would leave toys that they no
longer need or their kids no longer
needed and people can actually come here
and take toys if they want or leave toys
they don't need anymore so kind of weird
when you just come here I don't know
what it is and it's just a whole bunch
of random like soft toys who probably
get rained on and snowed on but the
gesture is very sweet
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all right so we are in one of the first
coffee houses I guess the first coffee
house here in jewelz
and this particular place has an
underground cellar that is supposed to
have a very unique type of coffee
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so this is the menu for this place and
it's got a really wide variety of
different types of coffees but right at
the top it says working with a fire
torch please watch your hair and
clothing and I think this is the one
with the blowtorch for 60 grievance
which is like kind of around three
dollars alright so they have just
brought our stuff to our table and I'm
sure the blow torches will be coming
next but this is maecius cacao and that
is my coffee so it's got a nice thing of
sugar on top
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interesting player blazing coffee and
it's got this oh very big for us like
crimper lei
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it's like your sugar now to try the
coffee I see it's like your regular you
know sort of walking
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so we have been walking around the city
all day it is absolutely beautiful and
one thing that people will definitely
notice as a difference between involves
and keys is that you will hear so much
more just Ukrainian Kiev is definitely a
more russian-speaking city whereas the
wolf here is almost primarily Ukrainian
so for somebody who does not understand
Ukrainian it's a little bit tricky
because when I speak Russian to them
they assume I understand Ukrainian
belief it has kind of been my
interpreter for this particular trip but
I think I do want to start trying to
just use more Ukrainian words so Misha
if you don't mind teach some of my
viewers here some very basic sort of
terms that might help them here on this
trip so hello is previous week in
Russian it's pretty weird but in
Ukrainian it's pretty weak and thank you
is yeah cool
and then yes doc doc okay and what is
know me can you so instead of yep it's
merely interesting okay so see those
those words I think I've kind of heard
quite a bit they are fairly simple to
remember if you already know a little
bit of Russian but yeah I still find
that there is quite a difference between
Russian and Ukrainian so hopefully in
time my Ukrainian will get much better
lights down though still wondering what
you're saying stairs
don't go slow
you stay in this game you're playing
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