So yes, it's easier to be lazy than to actually write proper blog posts. You know the deal, it's either putting more time into living your life or to documenting it...
But here's a short one which I hope will be to your likings and will lighten up the new year. Yes, it's the Jewish near year in two days for those of you thinking I'm so out of time.
We were now in Odessa, Ukraine and the reason is a cool guy I've met about 1.5 years ago in Egypt. We met him on the first or second day of the Egyptian experience and hung with him till the last day. HOWEVER, seems Odessa has things to offer on it's own accord.
For one, it's a port city. Not that it's of any real importance to me but I liked the picture below.
It's quite well developed and has an interesting night life we managed to only scratch in the two nights there. Seems a lot of about-to-get-married couples go to the city centers to have their pictures taken in the exact same places. Some can afford to rent a bigger car that may or may not contain a swimming pool.
Although some people can afford to spend, seems the municipality cannot always find enough money to keep the roads in top condition.
Seems Odessa has quite a few sister cities and one of them is in Israel. Personally, I never understood the sister cities project. Simply taking random cities, deciding they're similar for some benign reasons such as "we both have building and people in our city" and then just publishing it everywhere. There's gotta be some logic behind it. Perhaps it's about managing to spend tax payers money on sending municipality employees on vacations abroad. Any one to shed light on that?
And last for here but not least, a huge 5 New Sheqel coin at the harbor. Interesting artifact, but cannot fit in a standard wallet.
Why is it there?
This has been a post saying so little about our time in Odessa, the night train to Odessa from L'viv, the border crossing from Poland or anything else such as what similarities I have found between Ukraine and India. Perhaps another time when I'm more energetic.
Peace, love and Shana Tova :)
