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How to Cross a Ukrainian Border, Part Deux
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 4 August 2011
You are now finished with Moldova, you now must deal with the Ukraine. Pull up please we were told by the border patrol.” We pulled ahead 2-metres to the white line and proceeded to wait.
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How to cross a Ukrainian Border
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 3 August 2011
We were originally going into Moldova. The map said that we’d be crossing into the country from Romania and driving for about an hour before reaching the Ukrainian border. Once we got to the border patrol in Romania, we were told different. It all started when we were told that the … portion of Moldova [...]
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Moldova, Microfinance and Happiness
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 6 October 2010
by Kevin Mihelic, KF12 Moldova, Georgia Upon receiving news of my placement in Chisinau, a friend of mine recommended I read ‘The Geography of Bliss’ by Eric Weiner. This New York Times bestseller detailed Weiner’s journey throughout the world to find what made countries happy. To truly know ‘happiness’, Weiner decided he needed to go to a very unhappy country: Moldova, which ranks near the bottom in most national happiness studies.
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Moldova, Moldovan Separatist Region
Blog: Abandon the Cube - 10 September 2010
Rumors are not always proven true, and that was the case for us in Moldova. We had heard it was the most corrupt and difficult place to travel in, and many other rally teams were stopped and forced to pay bribes at the Moldovan border.
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The unusual customs of others
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 22 September 2009
After yesterday’s wastefulness, when I awoke from my deep slumber today at 08:00 (with the gentle persuasion of Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lover’s ‘Morning of our Lives’ as an alarm) I was ill prepared for getting the bus to Bucharest at 10:00 am. This hostel is pretty good but it’s a little bit out [...]
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Hark now hear
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 20 September 2009
Well today pretty much just resolved around the derby for me. I was frantically trying to find somewhere showing the game in the city centre but trying to find a bar one is hard work in Chisinau, never mind one actually showing it. I was getting desperate as it got closer and closer to KO [...]
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Puntastic
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 19 September 2009
So a bit of a boring day today as like I said, travel plans on the agenda. I’ve got a bit done. More needed tomorrow though. I just went to the shopping mall next door to pick up some food supplies (dirt cheap too). The rather posh place is ingeniously titled … wait for it [...]
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Dog eat dog
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 18 September 2009
My plans for today have gone south. I was hoping to hang around the hostel all day and plan what happens after Bucharest until I get my night bus to Chisinau tonight. But alas today just happens to be their biannual ‘big clean’ day where they shut the entire hostel. That means I’m on the [...]
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