Lana Del Rey’s ‘Summertime Sadness’ is filling the air of the restaurant in Odesa…. “Done my hair up real big, beauty queen …
Autobiography & Travel
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Autobiography & Travel
Pippi Longstockings, and a Destroyed School in Kharkiv, Ukraine
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn a pile of rubble in the destroyed Gymnasium No. 47 in Kharkiv (Харьковская гимназия № 47), Ukraine, I picked up a …
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Autobiography & Travel
Ukraine: War and Wonders – Ukraine’s Womanly Face of War
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSvetlana Alexievich’s book ‘The Unwomanly Face of War’ is one of the most impactful I’ve ever read. The book is a series …
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Autobiography & Travel
The Invincible Children of Kharkiv – Musicians in the ‘City without Windows’
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleKharkiv, in the far north-east of Ukraine, has been described as ‘a city without windows’ (Mayor Ihor Terekhov in a Twitter post …
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Today is the three-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. On that day, pandemonium struck. People fled with a …
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Autobiography & Travel
Ukraine: War and Wonders – The Dnipro – Ukraine’s ‘National River’
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleRivers, big rivers. They can be political borders – think of the Rhine – when it marked the ‘civilised’ Roman Empire to …
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Autobiography & Travel
Nominated: Content Catnip award for Most Interesting Blog on WordPress!
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleLast week I checked my email, to find that I had been nominated for the Content Catnip award for Most Interesting Blog …
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Autobiography & Travel
A Chilling Thought about Travel – is it mostly Hoarding?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSeven months of travelling nearly done, and I’m siting in a plane, about to watch a documentary on Martin Phillipps of ‘The …
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The young woman walked up to me, and, without a word, began rearranging the coins on my hand…. *** References to the …
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The passport control officer at Minsk Airport seemed genuinely shocked to see me (well, OK, I can have that effect on people). …
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