The picture above shows Kiev’s St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery overlooking the Dnieper River at night. Like the complex at Pechersk Lavra, St. Michael’s is a functioning monastery. Originally built in the Middle Ages in the Byzantine style, it received a Ukrainian Baroque facelift in the 18th century. The Soviets demolished the original cathedral in the 1930s but it was reconstructed following independence in the 1990s and reopened in 1999.
An East German Trabant or “Trabi” parked on a street in Prague. This is a “mine” kind of car for so many reasons. Continue reading “Photo Challenge of the Week: Mine”
One thing Kongo noticed as he travelled about central Europe in areas that were once part of the Soviet bloc was graffiti. From Budapest to Prague and most everywhere in between graffiti was common and it wasn’t just in depressed areas or neighborhoods where you might suspect gang activity like you might see in the United States. In most of these places graffiti was common in the beautiful parts of the cities on historical buildings, on landmarks, in areas where you would least expect to see it. So, Kongo wondered, what’s up with all the graffiti? Continue reading ““We got democracy.””
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