Tag: Chernobyl

Did we tell Grandma I was going to travel to a nuclear disaster exclusion zone? Monday morning came and I woke bright and early, showered, packed myself full of breakfast, and headed to independence square to meet the Solo East group. One might imagine that group wouldn’t reflect the typical tourist group and that is…

While in Leipzig I stopped by Sergej’s parent’s place a few times – the previous two trips I stayed there and we get along pretty well – although with me not speaking Russian, Ukrainian, or Germany and neither of his parents speaking English or French we have to use Sergej as a translator. I realized…