Mr. Traveller

This year, the city of Odessa was visited by numerous tourists - all summer on the streets was constantly heard a foreign language, and Ukrainian churches of the city (UGCC and UOC-KP) have been flooded by the parishioners from the western Ukraine. Odessa Hotels also had plenty of customers. And the problem is that many of them are now being repaired, so the demand began to outstrip proposition, and just because of private landlords that rent apartments by the month and day, Odessa didn't faced a loss of interest due to the lack of accommodation. Local businesses operating in retail, this year got a good profit which, of course, virtually no impact on the city budget because of a) hiding from taxes and b) a cover for the single tax for physical persons (FOS). Mayor Edward Hurwitz began to repair facades of old buildings en masse. On the one hand, it is a work a couple of hundred people, on the other hand, this will improve the tourist interest in Odessa in the next couple of...

In 2010, Odessa citizens have been waiting for a good cruise season. Just because the world crisis forced foreign cruise operators to significantly reduce the number of expensive flights. And all believed that foreign tourists immediately will rush to Odessa and the Crimea... However, this did not happen. Frankly, I also expected an increase in cruise ship calls in the port of Odessa. It was assumed that the global crisis will hit the wallet of foreign tourists, and they will begin a mass campaign to buy tickets for holidays in Ukraine. I thought that the cheaper route, to which I mistakenly attributed the ports of Ukraine, will be more attractive to the cruise season of 2010. However, these expectations are not confirmed. Really, the calls at Ukrainian ports to foreign cruise operators cost far more than the call at ports of other countries in the same Black Sea. And sometimes more expensive at times! How can this be? Imagine, can! This is because of an incredibly high level of va...

I have a friend who is fond of Odessa girls and women. It doesn't concerns anything sexual, but he is a kind of aesthete. He is used to walk down the Odessa streets and makes pictures of beautiful handsome girls and women. This is one of his pictures. According to his opinion, this girl looks like Sophia Loren . I'm not the arguer.