Morning Kharkiv reminds me of the Kyiv of my childhood — clean, quiet, few cars.

The road to Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi is good, though narrow — one lane each way.

Bumpy in places, but not too bad.

There is no such thing as planned happiness.

put on my unlucky t-shirt — skype broke. and it broke since late yesterday evening, while I put the t-shirt on yesterday in the middle of the day.

broke hard, been lying there the whole day.

giving it a try. after all, it’s the 21st century, that’s how it goes.

the day of “unwashed russia”

today Ukraine was granted visa-free travel. I regret a little that I didn’t get a passport sooner. now I’ll have to wait out the wave of “zradofily”.

Bought this backpack. Grey color. Going to try it out.

Starting a series of short factual articles — notes.

Another trip to the dentist.

Strawberries are available to buy — they’ve been selling them for a while now, looks like the nitrate season has passed.

Looking for a single-strap EDC universal …