I only stayed a couple of days in Belarus and then took a night train to Kiev in Ukraine. (Where are all these countries? Here’s a map) Lonely Planet books tend to exaggerate, and the chapter on Ukraine is particularly …
I arrived back in Australia on Monday. I had a wonderful vacation. Eastern Europe is such an interesting place. I finished my trip with a visit to a friend who is living in Germany. I almost stayed an extra day …
After Lithuania, I went to Belarus, one of the last surviving communist countries. It’s a dictatorship where the KGB is still active and spies on people. Minsk was almost totally destroyed during the war and had to be completely rebuilt. …