In Moscow, the city has largely eliminated the street side vendors and kiosk that sell everything from shoes to books to tools, etc. In Kiev, all that unregulated commerce is alive and well. Below is a picture of cherries, and man are they good! Strawberries are in season here, too. The season is mostly over in Tirana. Maybe I'll just travel around all over the world chasing the strawberry season.
In the metro, it is amazing that these people were able to get these kittens to sleep so nicely. I think they may have drugged them. But...as I walked up, one guy was walking away with one, and it looked fresh and happy. The sign says, "We are giving kittens to good hands." (In Russian) I was a bit worried about my lack of ability to speak Ukrainian. I don't think I'll have a problem. Everyone speaks Russian, and so far I haven't noticed any animosity toward Russia. I think the problems may be like all problems between countries. The people get along fine--it's the governments that cannot play nicely.
I visited an outdoor gym. All the weights were fastened to their stands with thick, heavy chains. The bar below is sagging like something from a cartoon. There were probably 50 big beefy dudes with their shirts off showing massive pectoral muscles. I told my friend, Anna, that it was like a meat market.
Here is Anna lifting a terribly heavy bar made from tires.
The meat market was on an island in the Dniper River. Next to the meat market was this large, sandy beach.
These cats were on the wall of a passageway.
Before I left, the stray cat who came to visit me often took advantage of the empty drawers:
Now you see him:
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now
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don't
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