Ukraine
"So where did you go for your vacation?" "I went to Ukraine..." "Ukraine!? You know there´s a war right?" "Yeah..." If you're logical then you will never experience anything out of the ordinary so I said goodbye to all logic and went to Ukraine during the war with Russia for the Crimea peninsula. It was a part of my birthday celebration and I went there with my friend Erik the day after my birthday, to make sure that I would survive until I had gotten my gifts. We went to the capital called Kiev which is 11 hours by car away from the warzone, and we thought that would be safe enough. And since people were sunbathing on the city beach by the Dnieper River it didn't seem like the Ukrainians seemed that worried that there was a war going on in the south. As a statement against the Russian invasion in the country I wore my peace sign T-shirt when we landed on the airport. I had heard that the taxi drivers would try to rip you off and...