From the wilds of Western Ukraine to the wild 1970s Soviet Union: Yaremche v Tiraspol
A study in contrasts: urban v rural Or, city v nature, Part 1 And Part 6 (of 10) of my August 2020 Challenge. August 2020, the Carpathians: It was the ‘wild’ I was looking for, and it was the ‘wild’ we got as we ventured west to the Carpathians, that magical land where ‘time stands still’ to quote myself from a post from May 2013 and though the place we stayed is fairly touristy by Ukrainian standards – Yaremche – it still had a few areas off the beaten path or track that offered thrills and adventures and it actually was a bit unintended this adventure because really what we wanted was a standard trail and my map seemed a bit dated and unreliable but we thought the trails on there could be found but we weren’t able to so we just traipsed our way up through and over a massive hill not quite a mountain but a steep oh-so-steep hill and by the end of this trip – as you shall see but I won’t actually share a photo – my legs were scraped, bleeding, scratched, bitten bitten bitten – the...