Anker Tierney
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In KIEV TOURIST THE COLD WAR Get A sense Of The Cold War The next day in Kiev I rose early to first check out the hotel breakfast offerings before it got too crowded however it is not really fancying anything as nothing looked appealing to me, the breakfast was pretty basic really, I just had a coffee and sitting on the large table all to myself I finished planning the rest of my day which would take in the State Aviation Museum, giving me an idea of the cold war, before making a bit more Kiev sightseeing. Local Sim card Needing your local SIM card, I first went underground into buying centre beneath Arena City later emerging back on Khreschatyk St where any member of staff in the KNIBCTAP cell phone shop close to McDonalds got me sorted and online with any local SIM card for 130 Ukrainian making me best to Google maps and finding places over a internet with no added expensive roaming expenditure. The State Aviation Museum Costing me 190 Ukrainian by taxi from Independence Square plus another 50 Ukrainian entrance fee plus nearly double that again for a booklet worth of small voucher tickets to go inside an assortment of the aircraft there, The state run Aviation Museum is situated next to the perimeter fence of the citys second airport formally known as Zhuliany acquire renamed Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport where the charter flights and price cut airlines operate from, robbers of the aircraft landing and removing added just a little of atmosphere to what is basically an air show connected with setting but without any flying aircraft. Once inside there was KIEV MO NGERING RECAP of walking after dark rows and rows quite a few aircraft both civilian and military prepared on the grass. You name it, massive white humanitarian relief helicopters, old MIG fighters, Russian Bear large propeller spy planes the ones which were frequently intercepted flying inside the North sea and English channel and old Aeroflot Airliners, a majority of which you could go inside, really made my year. kiev State Aviation Museum One with the Cold War threats to Maggie Thatcher and President Reagan the actual planet 80s Sleek 1950s Aeroflot airliner Sleek 1950s Aeroflot airliner The great Bear spy plane The great Bear spy plane Hotel Salyut Forking out another 200 Ukrainian if we do heavy negotiation between myself and a half asleep taxi driver who had been parked up in the museum car park, my next choice was the now lost in translation Hotel Salute, another Iconic Kiev landmark famous amongst some visitors for its naughty nightclub, and from that point I would walk over to take a look at the largest and possibly most impressive statue in Kiev. Hotel Salyut kiev The iconic Socialist Modernism Hotel Salyut which enjoy the meaning from the name does bear some resemblance to 1 of early Soviet Space Stations Enquiring at reception relating to the nightclub and opening hours I was told The night bar, its real name, opens the actual evening from 10pm. A lot of great name, I felt. Iron Lady Continuing my walk to my final destination, the 203 foot tall Iron Lady or Motherland Statue, took around 15 to 20 minutes through some amazing landscaped grounds with great views below of the noticeably much flatter Kyiv Left Bank across the river. Had been Walking back along Ave Marginal with an eye out for any sign of streetwalkers to see enroute however just didnt have time. Once there and stretching my neck while looking upwards in the great lady, I thought yes specialists are encouraging impressive. |