I am superstar from Ukraine

[Dave-n-Oksana 49]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-FY0ub9pc&feature=share

Something for the RUBes

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

2nd class tickets.

[thekfc 26]

That is hilarious

[Brad and Vika 129]

Brings back memories Nice one.

[slim 1,530]

I'm really glad I never had to travel very far on the rails.

Years ago I was planning an "adventure" on the Transsiberian... glad that never worked out.

[Brad and Vika 129]

I just showed this to Viktoriya. We laughed hysterically while comparing it to our overnight train to Lviv two years back. The heat, the food, everything. She is sending it to her mom this morning.

[Dave-n-Oksana 49]

I just showed this to Viktoriya. We laughed hysterically while comparing it to our overnight train to Lviv two years back. The heat, the food, everything. She is sending it to her mom this morning.

I've never experienced the train, but my daughter showed this to us the other night and after hearing all the wonderful tales about the train, I had to post this.

As for my train experience, I am hoping/dreading that my first will be sometime this summer. Kiev to Zaporizhzhya and then a bus to Berdyansk. So much for sleep I guess.

[1HappyGuy 45]

I've never experienced the train, but my daughter showed this to us the other night and after hearing all the wonderful tales about the train, I had to post this.

As for my train experience, I am hoping/dreading that my first will be sometime this summer. Kiev to Zaporizhzhya and then a bus to Berdyansk. So much for sleep I guess.

My advice is take a sleeping pill. I got zero sleep on my trip from Dnepropetrovsk to Simferopol and not much better on the trip back. The shaking of the train all night screwed up my equilibrium for two days. I thought I had been out to sea again.

[tom&tanya 48]

I just showed this to my wife and stepdaughter ... They loved it! Laughed and laughed and said it's so accurate!!

[Brad and Vika 129]

I've never experienced the train, but my daughter showed this to us the other night and after hearing all the wonderful tales about the train, I had to post this.

As for my train experience, I am hoping/dreading that my first will be sometime this summer. Kiev to Zaporizhzhya and then a bus to Berdyansk. So much for sleep I guess.

Take your own pillow... and a sleeping pill... beer helps too.

Vika showed me the original song that the OP is spoofing. I will try to find and post it.

[Brad and Vika 129]

Found it!

[Martyshk 137]

I dunno...... I love trains. I've always loved trains ever since I was a kid.

A trip from Simferopol to Moscow was an experience that was beyond exciting back in a day.

This spring we took the train from Kharkov to Kiev and it was excellent. Much better than 10 years ago. I was quite surprised.

[Islapaz 41]

Trains trains, we did a marathon, i had never took a long train in my life until summer 2007. My first trip was from Berlin-Kiev-Dnipropetrosk, koshmar, one of the hottest summers, the toilets in my wagon were broken down and when they put on the air cooler the unpleasant odor was all around. Then the wagon attendant was spraying in the corridor a potpourri sent, it was terrible. Then we took Dniprpetrosk-Kiev-Moscow, then next day Moscow-St. Petersburg. Both ways. When back in Dnipro we took Dnipro- Odessa, both ways. And then all the way back to Germany the same way we came.

We met lots of interesting people, like a kid around 10 years old with a super impressive postcard collection specifically of the Berlin wall. Then a guy carring a laptop bag, mid trip he opens it, explain us he works for a plastic company, and gift us all kinds of suveniers in plastic And a russian family, spanish speakers, that did their trip all the way from Spain until Moscow by train they gift us those tasty cookies in a form of a walnut filled with milk caramel.

An adventure to do once maybe...

Sadly I have repeat it and is not so pleasant after the first time.

I have a question, how about fear of flying of your FSU partners, fiancee etc?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Trains trains, we did a marathon, i had never took a long train in my life until summer 2007. My first trip was from Berlin-Kiev-Dnipropetrosk, koshmar, one of the hottest summers, the toilets in my wagon were broken down and when they put on the air cooler the unpleasant odor was all around. Then the wagon attendant was spraying in the corridor a potpourri sent, it was terrible. Then we took Dniprpetrosk-Kiev-Moscow, then next day Moscow-St. Petersburg. Both ways. When back in Dnipro we took Dnipro- Odessa, both ways. And then all the way back to Germany the same way we came.

We met lots of interesting people, like a kid around 10 years old with a super impressive postcard collection specifically of the Berlin wall. Then a guy carring a laptop bag, mid trip he opens it, explain us he works for a plastic company, and gift us all kinds of suveniers in plastic And a russian family, spanish speakers, that did their trip all the way from Spain until Moscow by train they gift us those tasty cookies in a form of a walnut filled with milk caramel.

An adventure to do once maybe...

Sadly I have repeat it and is not so pleasant after the first time.

I have a question, how about fear of flying of your FSU partners, fiancee etc?

Alla has absolutely NO fear of flying and in fact...loves it. She would prefer to actually FLY the plane. Check out our photos, she has actually flown the light sport experimental in those pictures...it is a stick and rudder, 2 clicks advanced from the Wright Brothers and she LOVES it!

She doesn't mind the trains and we laughed at the video. We have sent it on to Sergey in Moscow! But t was my experience that you will have at least one of the "things" depicted in that video on any trip...heat, cold, smelly feet, your neighbor eating stinky fish, etc. But, no kidding, one of the reasons I love Ukraine is all the "texture" what else to call it?

[Brad and Vika 129]

I have a question, how about fear of flying of your FSU partners, fiancee etc?

Vika is fine with flight, but MIL is terrified! Haven't seen her here yet either