tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-353255952021-12-14T08:17:07.919-08:00My Ukrainian AdventuresMy journey in summer of 2006 took me to Ternopil (Ukraine) where I met Maria for the first time. The pictures posted are some of our adventures in the 2 short weeks of my visit... Also now Maria and I will add pictures and stories from more of our adventures. But our biggest adventure was that we got married!...RonZUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-79781399190647303442007-10-10T09:40:00.000-07:002013-02-25T11:09:33.024-08:00A Magic Window Helps To Get Married<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/ukraine.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="What helps to get married" border="0" height="327" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296000420442356834" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SX8sUq7JPGI/AAAAAAAADmI/0PjhXfeBCCI/s400/What+helps+to+get+married.JPG" style="float: left; height: 262px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong><a href="http://www.ukrainianmatchmaker.net/2007/12/he-wanted-to-stay-in-ukraine-and-to-ask.html" target="_blank">Ron and Maria,</a></strong> the second day we met,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/museum-in-lviv_09.html">Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture,</a></strong> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">August, 2006</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/ukraine.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="How to get married quickly" border="0" height="240" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119749727480596882" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/Rw0BQGViSZI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/SLtyXDbio18/s320/Window_2007_1.JPG" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" width="320" /></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/09/wedding-in-west-ukraine.html" target="_blank">Maria and Ron's wedding</a>, </div><strong><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/museum-in-lviv_09.html">Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture,</a></strong><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">August, 2007</div><br /><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Ronnie and I met each other for the first time in <strong><a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/search/label/Lviv" target="_blank">Lviv</a>, </strong>the biggest city of the <strong><a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/" target="_blank">West Ukraine</a></strong>. It was August 2006. We enjoyed a beauty of <a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/search/label/Lviv%20Historical%20Sites" target="_blank"><strong>medieval Lviv</strong></a> for two amazing days. On a second day we have visited a <a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/search/label/Lviv%20Museum%20of%20Architecture" target="_blank"><strong>Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture</strong>.</a> Inside of the one of old Ukrainian houses in the museum we met Lyudmyla. She is a very good woman and worker of this museum. We asked her to take pictures of us in traditional Ukrainian clothes. Lyudmyla has explained to us how to wear Ukrainian outfits properly. Then she said, “Maria, please tell your husband to stay with you in this window, I will take a nice pictures of you”. I smiled, “He is not my husband, we just met each other yesterday”- “But you will be a husband and wife, I see it”, Lyudmyla smiled too.<br />Well, in one year Ronnie and I back to the same Museum, to the same house and to the same window to say Lyudmyla that we are really married! More than that, we were married in the Church of this Museum! Lyudmyla was so excited and she said, “You see, I was right!” And she said to our guests, “OK, single guys and girls, everybody take picture in this Magic Window! Everybody will get married after!” Of course, she was joking, but who knows?<br />Oh, also I forgot to say that this our special picture in the “Magic Window” we have used for our wedding invitations. And after the wedding reception with Lyudmyla in her “Magic House” we took a picture of us in “Magic Window” again. It was so interesting to look at ourselves after year, the more so, year ago in this window we were a single people, and now we are married! So, who will be next marriage couple after taking picture in the Magic Window?<br /><em><strong>P.S.</strong> But before the taking picture in the Magic Window in Lviv, Ronnie and I find each other online, through </em><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><strong><em>this website.</em></strong></a><em> <a href="http://www.ukrainianmatchmaker.net/2007/10/blog-post.html" target="_blank">This is really good dating source!</a> I can tell it from our experience and experience of our friends as well.</em></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><em></em></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br />Read also</div><div align="left"><strong><em><a href="http://www.ukrainianmatchmaker.net/2007/12/he-wanted-to-stay-in-ukraine-and-to-ask.html" target="_blank">Ukrainian-Canadian Love Story</a></em></strong><br /><strong><br /></strong></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-29856269191057023282007-10-09T15:00:00.000-07:002015-02-23T17:26:46.829-08:00Maria And Ron's Wedding In West Ukraine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/ukraine.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="Wedding in Ukraine" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SaZlZCsEBkI/AAAAAAAAD1E/KCcurqsl6Dc/s400/Wedding+in+Ukraine.JPG" height="240" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307040691795527234" style="float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" width="320" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/10/wedding-ceremony-in-west-ukrainian.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Wedding in the Western Ukraine" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SaZmx6vDhVI/AAAAAAAAD1M/CBI09Ccm9mg/s320/Wedding+in+the+Western+Ukraine.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307042218668950866" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/2008/09/fall-in-ukraine-time-to-bake-korovay.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Korovay the Traditional Ukrainian Wedding Bread" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SaZqZR2N_dI/AAAAAAAAD1U/jsiut3Qscz0/s320/Korovay+The+Traditional+Ukrainian+Wedding+Bread.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307046193422794194" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/09/wedding-in-west-ukraine.html"><img alt="The Veseli Halychany Musicians (Western Ukraine)" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SX80TK401oI/AAAAAAAADmg/AN-Vt8g36Ls/s320/The+Veseli+Halychany+Musicians.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296009190755849858" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/09/wedding-in-west-ukraine.html"><img alt="The Veseli Halychany Folk Band (Ternopil city, West Ukraine)" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SX80S6KIfqI/AAAAAAAADmY/hdDqM4CBuhE/s320/The+Veseli+Halychany+Folk+Band.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296009186265038498" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Finally! We did it! We got married August 4, 2007 in the West Ukraine. The Church ceremony of our marriage took place in Lviv Greek-Catholic Church of Divine Wisdom. This wooden Church was built in 18 century.<br />After Lviv we went to Ternopil state, where we had a wedding reception in the <strong><a href="http://www.ternopilrestaurants.com/2008/03/if-you-would-like-to-have-dinner-far.html" target="_blank">Sadyba restaurant</a></strong>. The Sadyba restaurant has a very good location, just 20 minutes driving from Ternopil. We had a sooo big amount of wedding meal! (Ukrainian tradition!) And also we had the best traditional musicians of Ternopil, the <a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2007/09/myroslav-babchuk-and-veseli-halychany.html" target="_blank"><strong>Veseli Halychany</strong> band</a>. They are professional musicians, they have in the band a two Honour Artists of Ukraine.<br />Our wedding finished about 4.00 a.m., and everybody had a big fun! Oh, I forgot to say that almost all the guests on our wedding were in traditional Ukrainian clothes. It is not typical for the many Ukrainian weddings now, we can to say that we were untypical with our wedding costumes. But all the our friend and relatives said, "We are never was on SUCH A BEAUTIFUL wedding!". OK, we are promise to tell you more about this WEDDING OF YEAR in Ternopil in our future posts.<br />Now you can see some <strong>video</strong> from the our wedding. The <a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2007/09/myroslav-babchuk-and-veseli-halychany.html" target="_blank"><strong>Veseli Halychany</strong></a> playing, guests are dancing<br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/svrksAXyLqQ&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/svrksAXyLqQ&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />Ukrainian dance Polka<br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FN58BIwhhMc&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FN58BIwhhMc&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />Musical Fun with Pipe<br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8OBkcIFOarM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8OBkcIFOarM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Read also:<br /><strong><em><a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2007/09/myroslav-babchuk-and-veseli-halychany.html" target="_blank">The Best Folk Musicians From Ternopil</a></em></strong><br /><strong><br /></strong></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-83046938495308065982007-10-08T13:49:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:34:30.281-08:00Ukrainian Outfits at Our Wedding<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/10/ukrainian-wear-on-our-wedding.html"><img alt="Ukrainian Wedding Bride Groom Bridesmaid Groomsman" border="0" height="256" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307048018688348482" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SaZsDhfcEUI/AAAAAAAAD1c/6zYPssXQEc4/s400/Ukrainian+Wedding+Bride+Groom+Bridesmaid+Groomsman.JPG" style="float: left; height: 256px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>Bridesmaid <strong>Ira </strong>(Ternopil), bride <strong>Maria </strong>and groom <strong>Ron</strong>, groomsman <strong>Mykhajlo </strong>(Lviv)<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/10/ukrainian-wear-on-our-wedding.html"><img alt="Ukraine wedding" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296013315245472562" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SX84DPzx-zI/AAAAAAAADmw/P9zqm8NkTX4/s320/Ukraine+Wedding.JPG" style="float: left; height: 293px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2007/07/lyudmyla-mila-and-bogdan-strocen.html" target="_blank"><br /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2007/07/lyudmyla-mila-and-bogdan-strocen.html" target="_blank"><strong>Mila Strotsen</strong></a> and Ron<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="Two happy couples met each other online" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296016222340661234" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SX86sdlSP_I/AAAAAAAADnc/dS4C44v5X24/s320/Two+happy+couples+met+ech+other+online.JPG" style="float: left; height: 230px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><strong>Olya Chorna</strong> and her fiance <strong>Jim </strong>with bride and groom<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/10/ukrainian-wear-on-our-wedding.html"><img alt="Ukrainian woman is wearing Borshchiv embroidery" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296012038841616146" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SX82481YxxI/AAAAAAAADmo/X_s_fKMn5XE/s320/Ukrainian+woman+wearing+Borshchiv+embroidery.JPG" style="float: left; height: 234px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>Halya Vandzelayk<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/10/ukrainian-wear-on-our-wedding.html"><img alt="Ukrainian girl is going to the wedding" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296014442623902322" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SX85E3nvonI/AAAAAAAADm4/o2KMyydSnxM/s320/Ukraine+girl+going+to+the+wedding.JPG" style="float: left; height: 261px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a></div><a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2007/09/thirsty-travellers-from-ternopil.html" target="_blank"><br /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><strong><a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2007/09/thirsty-travellers-from-ternopil.html" target="_blank">Olya Sagal</a></strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/services/individual.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="West Ukraine, Wedding" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116492316909127746" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/RwFup2ViSEI/AAAAAAAAATo/rbQJqvb2Kwc/s320/Wedding+Costumes2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br />Hi there, I am Maria, I am happy to speak with you again. Today I would like to tell you about special wear on our wedding. I say “special” because modern Ukrainian wedding absolutely don’t look like ours. Usually on the modern Ukrainian wedding bride and groom are wearing the same like in all the world, it is white dress and bridal veil for bride and black costume with white shirt for groom. But Ronnie and I decided to have a wedding in Ukrainian folk style and to have a costumes like our parents and grandparents had. Also in our wedding invitations we noticed about desirable dress-code for all the guests, it was traditional Ukrainian wear or elements of such wear.<br />Well, well, well! If we knew what will happened next! And happened such thing that many our guests were dressed even more gorgeous than bride and groom! I even was kidding to the Ron, “Are you really sure who is your bride, looking at these beautiful woman and girls?”.<br />But speaking at all, it was VERY pleasant to us to see a bunch so nice and bright people on our wedding. And it was some magic code and good sign for us, that almost everybody on the our wedding was wearing in traditional Ukrainian clothes. Because embroidered Ukrainian shirt for Ukrainians it is more than wear. It is symbol of unity with all the nation, and symbol of Ukrainian soul, like Ukrainian language and Ukrainian song.<br />Oh, it was so excited to choice a wedding costumes for us! I was looking for the wear for Ronnie and for me on the all Ukrainian souvenir markets of Lviv and Ternopil, and finally I have found it! I bought almost all components for the our costumes on the<strong> </strong><a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/2007/07/vernisazh-souvenir-market.html" target="_blank"><strong>Vernisazh Souvenir Market in Lviv</strong></a><strong>.</strong> Especially I am proud of my embroidered long shirt. When my friend, ethnographer<strong> </strong><a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2007/07/lyudmyla-mila-and-bogdan-strocen.html" target="_blank"><strong>Mila Strotsen </strong></a>looked at this shirt, she said, it was made about 80 years ago. We discovered that shirt have no any machine stitch! All the manual work! The fabric for shirt is from flax, and embroidery threads are woolen. They didn’t loss a сolor even through 80 years!<br />Also I forgot to say that my shirt made in the Kitsman town (Bukovyna region). This region located on the south from Ternopil state. And I am especially proud that my wedding shirt was made in the Kitsman, on the motherland of very talented and famous Ukrainian composer <strong>Volodymyr Ivasyuk,</strong> the symbol of Ukrainian pop music culture.<br />Another important component of my wedding wear it was special woolen skirt of two parts, Ukrainian name Plakhta. My wedding bouquet was made with elements of tradition Ukrainian style too. It was very tender pink roses, another flowers and herbs inherent in Ukraine, and even apples. My bouquet and other wedding decorations (reception’s hall in the restaurant, wedding bus) was made by <strong>Khrystyna Korolyuk </strong>, very talented florist and designer from <a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/" target="_blank"><strong>Ternopil</strong></a>. By the way, Khrystyna got married a week before the our wedding, and she had a wedding in Ukrainian style too.<br />OK, now about groom’s costumes. Ronnie’s wedding shirt I purchased on the <a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/2007/07/vernisazh-souvenir-market.html" target="_blank"><strong>Lviv’s Vernisazh Souvenir Market</strong></a> too. The shirt of my husband was embroidered in this year (not so “old” like mine), but it was made in the one style with my shirt. Ron’s Ukrainian shirt was made from the flax’s fabric too, and it embroidered by woolen threads. Also Ron had a trousers of sand color from the flax’s fabric and special Ukrainian woolen belt over the shirt.<br />Oh! I have to say about important Ukrainian tradition! In the old time every bride had to embroider a wedding shirts for herself and for her groom. Now rare girl to make it, almost all the brides prefer to buy a shirts to the grooms.<br />Actually, embroidered shirt is a main element of traditional Ukrainian clothes, it making a 90% of beauty of all the costume. Therefore Ronnie and I was keeping a big attention on the shirt in choice of our wedding wear. By the way, our guests too. For example, I was kidding that Strotsen family (Mila, her husband Bohdan and their children Maxim and Katya) bought up a half of Ternopil’s souvenir market. Yes, they are purchased their embroidered shirts and belts especially for our wedding.<br />And <a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2007/07/collection-of-borshchiv-embroidery_12.html" target="_blank"><strong>Vira Matkovska</strong></a>, very famous Ternopil’s collector of West Ukrainian embroidery, picked up a great embroidered shirts to three my friends, Olya Chorna, Halya Vandzelyak and Anna Nikolajchuk.<br />Especially I would like to say about <strong>Olya Chorna.</strong> She is my best friend already almost 20 years. And Ronnie and I were very happy to see on our wedding not just Olya, but also her fiance <strong>Jim </strong>from Iowa (USA). Olya and Jim will have a wedding in August, 2008 and their wed will be in Ukrainian style too! Jim said, that he already studies a marriage promise by Ukrainian (my Ronnie said his promise by English). So we were very happy that Jim had changed his plans and arrived to our wedding, because before the our invitation he had an intentions to visit Ukraine later, in September, 2007. But he changed his decision for the one night! During the night he booked a flight to Ukraine and hotel in Ternopil, and he answered, “Of course, I will come”. Thank you so much, Jim! Also Olya bought him a Ukrainian shirt for the our wedding too. Now they are thinking about choice of their wedding costumes. (Still I forgot to say a one important thing. Our friends Olya and Jim met through <a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><strong>Elenas Models</strong> </a>(like <a href="http://www.ukrainianmatchmaker.net/2007/12/he-wanted-to-stay-in-ukraine-and-to-ask.html" target="_blank"><strong>Ron and I</strong> </a>did), and I am very happy I helped to Olya and Jim to find each other).<br />My bridesmaid <strong>Ira </strong>from Ternopil (she is a daughter of Olya Chorna) purchased a Ukrainian shirt especially for our wedding, also she got a modern skirt in the one style with shirt. Ronnie’s groomsman <strong>Mykhajlo </strong>from Lviv (he is boyfriend of bridesmaid) had an embroidered shirt, and both of them, bridesmaid and best man, had a wonderful old Ukrainian belts, almost 100 years old!<br />All the our guests said, that it was SO GOOD idea to wear Ukrainian clothes, and these beautiful costumes was making a really GREAT atmosphere on the wedding!<br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4nE3PjbXkcg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4nE3PjbXkcg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Read also<br /><strong><em><a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2008/01/new-wedding-fashion-in-western-ukraine.html" target="_blank">New Wedding Fashion In Ukraine</a></em></strong><a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2008/01/new-wedding-fashion-in-western-ukraine.html" target="_blank"> </a><br /><strong><br /></strong></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-60825539432424345622007-10-07T08:27:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:35:03.216-08:00Our Liverpool's Friends Are Wearing Embroidery From Ukraine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/10/our-liverpools-friends-wearing.html"><img alt="Family in Ukrainian outfit (liverpool, England)" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117132971410868402" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/RwO1U2ViSLI/AAAAAAAAAUg/hO7hpZohRiI/s320/Liverpool1.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Whole family (<strong>Bill, Tanya, Lilya</strong>) in Ukrainian wear. August, 4, 2007</div><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/10/our-liverpools-friends-wearing.html"><img alt="Family wears Ukrainian embroidery (Liverpool, England)" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296025431508473250" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SX9DEgZ_VaI/AAAAAAAADn8/QMeu_60xxP4/s320/Family+wears+Ukrainian+embroidery.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 280px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong>Tanya and Bill</strong></div><br /><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/ukraine.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="Ukrainian-British Couple: Met Online, Happily Married" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117132984295770322" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/RwO1VmViSNI/AAAAAAAAAUw/x1b9YKbOU0Q/s320/Liverpool3.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br />We invited to our wedding very good friends of ours from Liverpool, England (<strong>Bill</strong>, his wife <strong>Tanya </strong>and their daughter <strong>Lilya</strong>). And although they couldn’t come to the Ukraine, their hearts were with us in that day! Before the wedding our Liverpool’s friends sent to us a many wedding gifts, besides,Tanya, Bill and Lilya decided to support our wedding in very touching way. So, August, 4, 2007, in the day of our wedding, they were wearing in Ukrainian costumes. All the day Tanya, Bill and Lilya spent in Ukrainian embroidery. Of course, they took some pictures and sent to us. It was the most incredible wedding gift we got from them!<br />I am very happy for our Liverpool friends, because several years ago I helped them to meet each other <a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><strong>online.</strong></a><strong> </strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Read also</strong><br /><strong><em><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/10/ukrainian-wear-on-our-wedding.html" target="_blank">Ukrainian Outfits At Our Wedding</a></em></strong><br /><strong><br /></strong></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-32686439377922355062007-10-06T14:15:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:36:00.819-08:00Wedding Ceremony In Ukrainian Church Of 18 Century<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/10/wedding-ceremony-in-west-ukrainian.html"><img alt="Wedding in Ukrainian Church of 18 Century" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307050509322658850" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SaZuUf07pCI/AAAAAAAAD1k/sFNiIzHnDfM/s320/Wedding+in+Ukrainian+Church+of+18+Century.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 241px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/ukraine.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="Ukrainian Canadian Bride and Groom" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307051950208504066" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SaZvoXi40QI/AAAAAAAAD1s/jGcUvL_PgBM/s320/Ukrainian+Canadian+Bride+and+Groom.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 240px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We were married in the <a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/search/label/Lviv%20Museum%20of%20Architecture" target="_blank">Lviv’s Museum of Folk Architecture</a>, in wooden church of 18 century. This is Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of Divine Wisdom. When Ron and me met each other in August, 2006 in Lviv, we visited this museum. It was second day of our dating. And after our decision to get marriage we chose this Lviv’s Church, because this museum and church are very special for us. Ron’s ancestors from the <strong><a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/search/label/Ivano-Frankivsk" target="_blank">Carpathian region</a></strong>, where this Church come from. Besides, we had a very good time in this museum when we met in 2006. The <strong>Priest Ihnatij </strong>(he gave us a marriage) said me a couple months before the ceremony, “Of course, I will give you a marriage. But do you really want to go here from Ternopil and to spend two and half hours by bus just for one way from Ternopil to Lviv? Besides, do you know that sometimes we have troubles with electricity inside of Church, so, if a light is randomly gone, what your cameraman is going to do?”. “Dear Father, I don’t think that Ronnie’s grandparents had an electricity in a similar Church, when they got marriage in 19 century in Ukraine. I just want to say that my fiance and I wish to touch a little bit to an atmosphere of these old times, to feel a romanticism of these times, and to give these romantic feelings to our guests”, I explained. “OK, so say to your cameraman to bring an additional light for taking video. And God bless you!”, the Pastor answered.<br />Well, we had enough of light in our souls, in the day of our wedding. But cameraman took a light for taking video, of course. Just weather in August, 4 was not very light, it was a rain almost all the day. It is not bad, because due to Ukrainian traditions, if bride and groom have a rain in their wedding day, they will have a rich life together. “The rain at the wedding it is a sign of money”, Ukrainians says. Well, we hope so :) !<br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-33229771059357898312007-10-05T14:29:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:36:22.968-08:00In The Ukrainian House Of 19 Century<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/services/index.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="In the Ukrainian house of XIX century" border="0" height="240" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/Img_4854-1.1.jpg" style="clear: all; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" width="320" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>August, 2006</strong>, our meeting in <strong>Lviv</strong> and visit Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture<br /><br /><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/ukraine.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="Mariya Ron Ukrainian Canadian Wedding" border="0" height="240" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307054903324176946" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SaZyUQwh8jI/AAAAAAAAD10/VX_RH0B0TLE/s400/Mariya+Ron+Ukrainian+Canadian+Wedding.JPG" style="float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" width="320" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />August, 2007, our wedding in <a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/search/label/Lviv%20Museum%20of%20Architecture" target="_blank"><strong>Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture</strong></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/ukraine.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="This happy family met each other online" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296027695388654146" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/SX9FISBFekI/AAAAAAAADoE/RfNz_tgNxlc/s320/This+happy+family+met+each+other+online.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 301px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Hi, this is Maria again. Today I continue to tell you about our wedding in Ukraine. So, Ronnie and I met each other for the first time in August, 2006, in <a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/search/label/Lviv%20Historical%20Sites" target="_blank"><strong>Lviv</strong></a> (the biggest city of the <a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/" target="_blank"><strong>West Ukraine</strong></a>). We were visiting many nice places of the medieval Lviv, but the most impressed for us was a visit to the <a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/search/label/Lviv%20Museum%20of%20Architecture" target="_blank"><strong>Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture.</strong></a> It is big museum outdoor, and many of old West Ukrainian houses of 16-19 centuries are representing there. There are wooden and clay’s houses mostly, also two wooden churches. These houses and churches brought from the three West Ukrainian states (<a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/search/label/Ternopil" target="_blank"><strong>Ternopil</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/search/label/Lviv" target="_blank"><strong>Lviv,</strong></a><strong> </strong><a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/search/label/Ivano-Frankivsk" target="_blank"><strong>Ivano-Frankivsk</strong></a>). Inside of these houses you can see an interior, kitchenware and clothes from the old times. All these attributes showing a lifestyle of the people in West Ukrainian villages in last centuries.<br />We took pictures of us in old Ukrainian wear inside of one of these houses. And after a year we back to this “our” house again, but already married. After the ceremony in the Church of Wisdom Divine we and our guests went to this house to have a little reception. We had some champagne and appetizers, and, of course, we took a pictures of us again. It was so excited to be there again, but already as a married couple!<br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/syGsrSv_6M0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/syGsrSv_6M0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-12986839230425179742006-10-09T01:48:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:36:45.373-08:00Dinner at Mila and Bohdan's<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.travelternopil.net/2007/07/lyudmyla-mila-and-bogdan-strocen.html" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4919.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/visit-to-mila-and-bogdans.html"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4920c.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-66636294698200723442006-10-09T01:40:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:38:32.909-08:00In Ternopil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/in-ternopil.html"><img alt="Cathedral Greek Catholic Church in Ternopil" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4900.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">Cathedral Greek Catholic Church in Ternopil</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/in-ternopil.html"><img alt="West Ukrainian Woman" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4897.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/in-ternopil.html"><img alt="In Ternopil (West Ukraine)" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4898.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-91107164986626185272006-10-09T00:53:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:38:40.466-08:00Lviv Historical Sites<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/lviv-historical-sites.html"><img alt="Western Ukrainian Woman" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4784.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/lviv-historical-sites.html"><img alt="West Ukraine: Lviv Historical Sites" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4779.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/lviv-historical-sites.html"><img alt="Western Ukraine: Lviv Historical Sites" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4807.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-8716259248937723322006-10-09T00:38:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:38:48.016-08:00West Ukrainian Village's Architecture Of 18-19 Centuries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/museum-in-lviv_09.html"><img alt="West Ukrainian village's architecture of XVIII-XIX centuries" border="0" height="300" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4844.0.jpg" style="clear: all; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" width="400" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2007/10/wedding-ceremony-in-west-ukrainian.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Lviv, Ukraine: Greek Catholic Church of Wisdom Divine" border="0" height="300" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4846.1.jpg" style="clear: all; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" width="400" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-size: 85%;">Greek Catholic Church of Divine Wisdom. This wooden Church was building in 18 century in the village Kryvky, Lviv state</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159678503806429752006-09-30T21:54:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:39:01.102-08:00Visit To Lviv<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/lviv-restaurant.html"><img alt="West Ukrainian Woman" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307477419455880418" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zEq0iZp6s/Safyl8ATHOI/AAAAAAAAD4E/Gzli-E2iGmM/s320/West+Ukrainian+Woman.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/lviv-restaurant.html"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/ukraine.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4890.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159678266434101892006-09-30T21:50:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:39:14.037-08:00Inside Old Ukrainian House<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="Lviv, West Ukraine: Inside old Ukrainian house" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/Img_4854-1.1.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/ukraine.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="Lviv, Western Ukraine: Inside old Ukrainian house" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4852.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159677985983719952006-09-30T21:45:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:39:26.779-08:00Mariampil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/640/PICT0107.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/PICT0107.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 78%;">Dad's school he attended in the year 1907 </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/?goto=MariyaZ"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/PICT0108.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/640/PICT0085.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/PICT0085.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/640/PICT0086.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/PICT0086.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159675923295743162006-09-30T21:11:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:37:33.374-08:00The Old Mill Restaurant in Ternopil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-restaurant.html"><br /><img alt="The Old Mill Restaurant Ternopil Ukraine" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4943c.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">Maria in the courtyard of the Old Mill Restaurant</span><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-restaurant.html"><br /><img alt="The Old Mill Restaurant in Ternopil, West Ukraine" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4951.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">Children playing in the fountain</span><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-restaurant.html"><br /><img alt="The Old Mill Restaurant in Ternopil, Western Ukraine" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_4950.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Canadian Man Ukrainian Women Got Married In Ukraine" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4948.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/another-restaurant.html"><br /><img alt="The Old Mill Restaurant in Ternopil, West Ukraine" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4949.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rsyxGlebYe8&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rsyxGlebYe8&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />Just click on this video and enjoy a nice Ukrainian song from the Old Mill Restaurant musicians!<br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159675602011524192006-09-30T21:05:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:39:38.506-08:00"Three Jacks" Truck Stop Restaurant (Ternopil Region)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/truck-stop-restuarant.html"><img alt="West Ukraine: A Truck Stop Restaurant near Kremenets city" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4976.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;">Around the main restaurant were small huts where you could have a meal in privacy</span><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/truck-stop-restuarant.html"><img (ukraine)"="" alt="" border="0" jacks"="" restaurant="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4981.jpg" stop="" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" three="" truck="" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/truck-stop-restuarant.html"><img alt="Western Ukraine: A Truck Stop Restaurant near Kremenets city" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4979.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/truck-stop-restuarant.html"><img alt="Western Ukraine: A Truck Stop Restaurant near Kremenets city" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4977.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159675552039345392006-09-30T21:03:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:39:53.947-08:00Unusual Sculptures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/unusual-sculptures.html"><img alt="Unusual Sculptures (Western Ukraine)" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_5015.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/unusual-sculptures.html"><img alt="Unusual Sculptures (West Ukraine)" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_5018.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/unusual-sculptures.html"><img alt="Nice Ukrainian Woman" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_5022c.0.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 85%;">Olya, a friend of Maria</span></div><div><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/unusual-sculptures.html"><img alt="Ukrainian Sculpture Art" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_5023.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/ukraine.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="Two Love Birds: Canadian and Ukrainian" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/PICT0030.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a> </div><div></div><div><span style="font-size: 85%;">Two Love Birds</span></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159675264754186712006-09-30T21:00:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:40:27.921-08:00Typical House in City<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/typical-house-in-city.html"><img alt="House In Ternopil" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_5069.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159675216773119422006-09-30T20:59:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:40:42.352-08:00New Condominiums in Ternopil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Condominiums%20in%20Ternopil"><img alt="New Condominiums in Ternopil city (Western Ukraine)" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_5054.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Condominiums%20in%20Ternopil"><img alt="New Condominiums in Ternopil (West Ukraine)" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_5056.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Condominiums%20in%20Ternopil"><img alt="Modern Condominiums In Ternopil" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_5064.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Condominiums%20in%20Ternopil"><img alt="Modern Condos In Ternopil Ukraine" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_5068.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br />New condominiums in Ternopil are building from brick. There are several building companies in Ternopil who build a new houses and sell an apartments.<br />Speaking at all, Ternopil is pretty good city for living. <strong><a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/search/label/Ternopil" target="_blank">There are a very clean enviroment in Ternopil</a></strong>, with lots of trees and flowers (Ternopil state is mostly agricultural region without big factories), with very good location of supermarkets, stores, beauty shops etc (you can buy grocery even in couple meters near your house), with cheap and easy public transportation (a lot of buses for different routes, you can get bus every 10 minutes, or trolleybus or taxi as well).<br />About new condominiums. <a href="http://20minut.ua/news/72629" target="_blank"><strong>One square meter of condo on primary market costs about $800 in Ternopil</strong>.</a> A middle area of new two-bedroom condo is from 65 to 75 square meters (depends from the project of building company), so it is not too complicated to count how much cost whole apartment.<br />A typical old two-bedroom condo in Ternopil has a 47-49 square meters of area (these condos were built mostly in Soviet time). A price of one square meter of such apartment is about $1100. So if you would like to buy a condo in Ternopil (and in <a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/" target="_blank"><strong>West Ukraine</strong> </a>at all), you better to work not in Ukraine, but abroad. For example, a middle monthly wage in Ternopil state in March, 2008 was 1214 UAH ($240). Is it possibly to buy a two-bedroom apartment, even having two middle incomes in family, if for taking loan in bank you must to have a monthly income of $1500-$2000? Besides, Ukrainian banks gives a loans of very high interest rate (from 11% to 12,9% in US dollars). So, a lot of Ukrainian people have no way, just to go abroad and to make money for the buying the apartments (also for paying for children’s education, everyday bills, buying food, clothes etc). <a href="http://www.dcz.gov.ua/ter/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=6123&cat_id=1003413" target="_blank"><strong>For example, 57,8 thousand people from the Ternopil state were working abroad in 2006</strong></a><strong>. </strong><a href="http://www.zik.com.ua/index.php?news_id=80240" target="_blank"><strong>They sent a $210 millions to their families in 2006.</strong></a><strong> </strong><a href="http://ua.proua.com/news/2007/10/23/103418.html" target="_blank"><strong>Ukrainian citizens who worked abroad, have sent to Ukraine $8,4 billions in 2006.</strong></a><br /><br />Read also <strong><a href="http://www.travelwestukraine.net/2008/03/time-to-invest-in-ukraine.html" target="_blank">Investment in Ukraine</a>, <a href="http://www.bankwestukraine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Banking and Credit Cards in Western Ukraine</a></strong></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159674994046664842006-09-30T20:56:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:40:52.812-08:00The Dykan'ka Restaurant In Ternopil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/in-ternopil.html"><img alt="The Dykan'ka Restaurant In Ternopil (West Ukraine)" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_5049.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/in-ternopil.html"><img alt="Ternopil The Dykanka Restaurant Swans" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1691/4312/320/IMG_5048.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 78%;">Of course, a Ternopil restaurant comes complete with swans and a lake</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159674798298880222006-09-30T20:52:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:41:06.569-08:00Ruins Of Medieval Castle Bona In Kremenets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/ukraine.htm/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="Ukrainian Woman Canadian Man Met Online Got Married" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_5013c.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br />A castle of 12 century!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159674370319573192006-09-30T20:45:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:37:56.535-08:00Having Fun in Ternopil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/city-centre-in-ternopil.html"><img alt="Ternopil City Center, West Ukraine" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4901.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/2006/09/city-centre-in-ternopil.html"><img alt="Ternopil City Centre" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4903.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="Ukrainian Canadian Couple Met Online" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4904.jpg" style="clear: all; cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">Maria's first ride on a ferris wheel...I think I was more excited</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-1159674188681432382006-09-30T20:39:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:38:18.404-08:00Lviv Cafe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.elenasmodels.com/?goto=MariyaZ" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7608/3927/320/IMG_4772.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35325595.post-47859676090174032682006-09-29T08:17:00.000-07:002012-03-10T10:37:01.799-08:00Privacy Policy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at <a href="mailto:travelwestukraine@gmail.com">travelwestukraine@gmail.com</a><br />At <a href="http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ukraine-2006.blogspot.com/</a>, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. 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