Odessa:)

Hitch-hiking in generel is a very exciting experience, and especially from Moldova to Ukraine, where you don´t know either language well enough, to fully understand directions. For a friend and me it meant that we were stuck at a container drop-off for quite a while. It would have only taken 3 hrs to get from Chisinau to Moldova (including boarder control), but it ended up taking us 5 hrs. It was an experience though.

We went to Odessa to celebrate the birthday of a british girl (3rd girl from left). Odessa is a beautiful city, and the most amazing thing about it is that it is SO close to the black sea. After spending 5 months in a land-locked country, this is worth travelling for. The photo below is me with my feet in the sea. It was veru warm, and the water was warm enough for a swim even thought it was in late May.
On this picture(from the left) Constance (FR), Suzanne (BE), Sus (the UK), Samira (GE) and Natasha (GE), singing karaoke)

Overlooking the beach from a shady spot.

The famous Tomkin stairs. I am not sure why they where famous, some ppl told me about a movie about Odessa, so if any of you have any ideas, pls feel free to comment on it. Apparently this fame has reached many place, because turist season was slowly kicking in.















One of the other cool things we got to experience in Odessa was the Opera. It was pretty cheap ( 30 Ukratkiiiis (lacking a better, or just the real name for their money) for seats that weren´t that bad.
This night they were showing a ballet made over some music of Chopin and Carmen. It was really good, and I will defently recommend it.