friday afternoon, after i was done teaching, i again met up with bo to wander around kyiv...when he'd seen the city in november, he and ben had gotten a bit lost and had to abandon the second half of the walking tour suggested by lonely planet...this time i wanted to show him the city i've gotten to know over the year i've been here...
we started by taking a look at st michael's, one of the many churches in the city...it's beautiful...st michael's is part of the ukrainian orthodox church, in the kyiv patriarchate...(i do not know the specific differences among greek orthodox, ukrainian orthodox, and russian orthodox)...st michael's is very much an active church as well as being a tourist spot...
from there we walked toward st andrews...another beautiful church...i don't think this church has services as often, but i could be totally wrong about that...there is a bit of a museum feel about it, and several bits of history displayed...when the area around the church is open, you have a great lookout over the river running through the middle of the city...
next to st andrews is a street filled with stalls selling tourist kitsch...in russian its known as andreivsky sputz...some of what is for sale is very soviet, some is traditional ukrainian...bo ended up buying a few momentos for his family...i looked for postcards, and looked at some of the paintings...
after that we went to my favourite park in town...mosaic park...bo told me i should've sent him and ben here in november, they would've spent hours climbing all over and taking photos...hee hee...i love this park!
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