So after 5 days in Kiev, we decided that it wasn't too bad after all. We made some fun new friends with the people in the hostel who weren't weirdos and went on a pub crawl with them to some of the bars in the area. One of them had a local band that played modern takes on traditional music which was fun.
The one saving grace of our weird hostel was that there was a super local bar called hospital just around the corner. It was in the basement of an apartment building and had no signs on the street, so you had to know it was there to go. It had the best food we ate in Kiev (we even had steak!) and it was really cheap too. Highlight was when the hostel owner asked Emma if she wanted a fucking cocktail. It later transpired that this was a cocktail he had created while he was running an irish pub in Dusseldorf and was trying to come up with gimmicks for New Years Eve. Emma guessed all the ingredients correctly and so he bought it for her. Pretty good all round.
We were also sad to leave the Varenicki - cherry dumplings - which we had grown to love, because a, they were tasty, and b, they were 90c for a big plate. I'm going to try to find a recipe when I get home and try to recreate them.
So with all this in mind, we were a bit sad to leave Kiev and were in high spirits as we took the taxi to the airport. When we arrived, the airport was like a bus station, crammed with people and with no mod cons. We waited our turn and finally presented our Wizz Air confirmation email to the guy. He checked the computer and then said something to us which we couldn't really understand exept for the words ticket and ticket office. So we traipsed over to the ticket counter and when they checked our confirmation, they said that we had no reservation, even though the money had dissapeared from my account and we had a confirmation email with us. They then told us that if we wanted to fly we would have to buy new tickets, at double the price, in cash. $400 AUD worth. So we yelled, and we screamed and Emma even stomped her foot in anger, but they wouldn't budge. Even when we printed out the bank statement showing that the money was gone. All we got was an unimpressed look from the brick face behind the counter who tapped her watch and said - time's running out, do you want the tickets or not. So we bought the tickets and stormed out way onto the plane happy to be heading back to Poland and civilisation :)
wow what a freakin piss-off!!! imagine me in that situation.....
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cherry dumplings sounds awesome but trying to recreate them....i dunno about that !! ill be there to critique them though :)
sydney is same as excpet the weather is AMAZING we have a few crap days but most of this winter has been absolutely delightful, ive been sunbaking on a towel at lunch reading the marilyn manson book whcih im really enjoying, not least because hes a total freak!
so yeah its 24 degrees today and i am off with the work girlies to see bertie blackman whos an aussie regina spektor-sarah blasko'ish chick whos album totally kicks ass !! so after gourmet pizza and wine im too tighass to buy at work, were off to happy hour on the rooftop bar at aurora, then onto strawbs for a possible $5 steak, then onto the Gaelic to see Bertie play :) cant wait! just hope im not too plastered by the time she comes on.
Our little housey at Alexandria is going good, were doing our first m,inor reno in rpelacing the old rotting vanity with a shiny new one. yay! that being said the shower wall is still a curtain....
Nothing else too excitement to report really! Rowda the other night was awesome until Gully got reallllllllly drunk (one of us was bound to!) and threw a galss over the balcony, then spilt the shish pipe.
needless to say im not taking him there ever again and am, once again, mortified. The old lady remembered me and was totally cool with the whole situation, is there anything that woman will not tolerate!!!!!
matts car got broken into the other nite out front of house which sucks because the silly boy left his work laptop in therr after REPEATED emails from work about not doing exactly that!
Scotty i hope your not cranky at me for texting you about work stuff, i was very excitement :)
anyways i hope you have at least one stubby holder to add to the collection in our house and in exchange we will cook you both a nice aussie meal of frozen pies and oven cooked chips, my grandma stylez.
anyways stop reading my babbling and get back to the pub or whatever you should be doing!!!!
been awesome reading ur blog, not least because it keep me busy at work!
That sucks! I would have been very cranky too. I may have even stomped my foot also... :)
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