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Chornobyl Power Plant & Prypiat
The Chornobyl Power Plant and the city of Pripyat were the final stops on our tour. Where are we? It was incredible to just be there. That’s the only way I can put into words the way it felt to stand at the place where everything happened. If you were just randomly driving near the…
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Chornobyl Duga Base
One part of our day trip to Chornobyl from Kyiv included a stop at the former Soviet base operating a Duga Radar Tower. What is a Soviet Radar Tower you ask? I had literally zero idea about this structure until we pulled up in the bus and walked the short way to the tower, also…
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Villages of Zalissya & Kopachi
Our day trip included visiting the villages of Zalissya and Kopachi. Zalissya is the first stop after the checkpoint into the Exclusion Zone while Kopachi is farther north; visitors can see the Chornobyl plant from Kopachi’s road near the Red Forest. Where are we? Both villages were two of 186 communities (including over 100,000 people)…
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Tips for Planning a Trip to Chornobyl
Please read my Visiting Chornobyl post first. I highly recommend the day trip to Chornobyl from Kyiv if you are visiting the Ukrainian capital (one of my favorite travel destinations!). Planning a trip to a former Soviet nuclear site might seem overwhelming, but I’m here to help you by giving an overview of booking your…
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Visiting Chornobyl
Two quick notes before I discuss dark tourism and AllTheThings Chornobyl: Spelling: As noted in my Kyiv post, I am using the Ukrainian government’s preferred transliterations of names into English. While both Ukrainian and Russian use the Cyrillic alphabet, the pronunciation of words can be different between the two languages. The commonly used English spelling…
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2019 Year in Review: Favorite TV Shows
What a year for television shows! I’ve always struggled with committing to an entire season, but this year I was able to watch a ton of great shows, both new and returning. It was also a great year for television actresses: Regina King, Catherine O’Hara, Zendaya, Toni Collette, Elisabeth Moss, and the cast of Big…
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2019 Year in Review: Favorite Coffee Shops, Snacks, and Restaurants
THE 2019-in-review post you’ve been waiting to read is HERE. Last year I had some of the best food of my life and couldn’t just limit this list to strictly brunch as I did in 2018. If we’re being honest, I couldn’t choose between a couple of my favorites, so I made an obnoxiously long…
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2019 Year in Review: AllThe[Travel]Things
2019 was a busy travel year for me! I was lucky enough to visit amazing new places and return to a couple of my favorite cities. As potentially my last full year abroad, I wanted to make the most of my time in Europe and I definitely accomplished that goal this year. I tried to…
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Deruny & Varenyky: Kyiv, Ukraine
Last spring (I know, I know, I am soooo far behind on posts AND in what world is it already 2020?!) Chris and I had the opportunity to tag along with our friends, Heather and Chris, to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Always at the top of my Dream Travel Destinations List, I was so…
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Things I’m Loving 10.25.2016
To Watch: Peaky Blinders and The Office (again) Similar to House of Cards, Peaky Blinders has been on my list forever and I’m just now getting around to watching it. If you haven’t seen the show I definitely recommend it; Cillian Murphy plays the leader of the Peaky Blinders, a criminal gang in post WWI England. The…
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