as penned by the ever-ready tour manager
Complete and unabridged
#1 (friday) - breakfast on the corner (crab salad+tea) - trolley bus - Shevchenko boulevard - St. Vladimir cathedral - Opera theater - Golden Gates - Pizza Ball (beer/cola) - St.Sophia Cathedral - a place with awful sandwiches and great chips (beer/cola) - St.Michael Cathedral - Olzhin Dvir (vodka/juice) - a walk through construction site (foemerly - lovely wild place with cannabis jungles) - Podol - might-have-been gig in Baboon Flat - pissing in bushes - sitting on the top of the hill with ladybirds - Andrew's Slope - Podol again with some live music and G&T - tram home
#2 (saturday) - trolley bus - failure with TV Kitchen - Shevchenko boulevard - TraliVali(salad,pancakes with curd and cream/tea) - Shevchenko boulevard (watching hotel for Shane) - Kreschatik - Luteranska - President's Administration and House With Chimeras (behind blue fence) - Institutska (with national bank and valenki story) -President's Administration and House With Chimeras (behind blue fence, other sight) - Franko Drama Theater - House with Chimeras (sight#3) - park infront of theater (feeding doves) - Kreschatik again - call to Aliona - Arka CD pirate shop - pepsi search - pepsi finding - messing around Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) - Ukrainian House (ex- headquarters of revolution, ex- Lenin museum) - exhibition - Groshevskogo st. (pass Cabinet and Parliment) - meeting with Aliona - sitting in the park and spotting weddings (loads of them) - through parks pass Mariinski Palace back to Kreschatik - Two Geese (pizza, beer/sprite + meeting with Denis) - getting fuel (G&T) - Vladimir's Slope - River Station - river bus (beer, taking pics) - metro Denis - walk at his nearest park - gosti (with i-net and cat) - last metro train - dark local streets – hotel
day#3 (sunday) rainy morning - walk through park (with "Joey" place and children railway) - getting buns with poppies - trolley bus to St Alexander Cathedral (Mass for me, messing around for you) - metro+taxi - Pirogovo(folk architecture&culture museum) - secret gig - late lunch (or early dinner, hotdosg, beer/cola) - back to Kiev - evening at Nut Pub(beer/cherry juice, some creative process) - walk through dark Velyka Vasyl'kivs'ka (ex-Red Army st.) pass another St.Michael Cathedral (the gothic one) - metro - dark local streets – hotel
day# 4 (monday) - breakfast on the corner(crab salad, tea) - trolley bus - Cyril Church - trolley bus - Pokrovskij (Virgin's Protection) convent - a walk to the Alley - the Alley with monument to duke Sviatoslav - History Museum - a rest with pepsi - St.Andrew Church - Andrejevskij Spusk(Andrew's Slope) - Podol (Sagajdachnogo st.)- metro - failure with book bazar but great khachapuri with chicken and mushroomsX2 - metro - failure with chip inet at post office - inet cafe - O'Briens Pub (beer/sprite, some creativity) - metro - dark local streets – hotel
day#5 (tuesday) - breakfast on the corner(crab salad, tea) - metro - Askoldova Mohyla (with another St.Michael church, greek-catholic one) - park with monument to unknown soldier - secret alley to Lavra - Lavra (with museums, Assumption cathedral, caves, heat, juice) - Spivoche pole (as a possible place for Shane open air gig) - Museum of Great Patriotic War with Motherland statue - metro - book bazar with pirate everything and khachapuri again - O'Brien's Pub (beer/juice) - metro - dark local streets – hotel
day# 6 (wednesday) - your secret movements - meeting at my work - gosti
day# 7 (thursday) - THIS IS THE END
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