My motorcycle - on the highway, in the city, at night, very fast.

I spent the seven weeks of the summer of 2010 in Kyiv doing a language immersion program.  Folks in Kyiv were not very friendly, though outside the city, folks were quite hospitable - lots of vodka, homemade wine, saulo and bread.  Food was great and not expensive.  Lots of cool historical sites in and around the city.  I loved driving from Kyiv to Odessa and seeing at endless fields of sunflowers.  I visited Chernobyl and Pripet - that was hard to look at but I'm glad that I went.  Saw a football match at Dynamo stadium.  Spent a lot of time walking along Kreshschatak - fantastic! Complicated history and politics; I didn't quite fully grasp the Ukranian-Russian tensions, though I did some reading. The topic sometimes came up on conversations with locals.  I'm still trying to get my head around в vs на Україна.  I have to force myself to use в because I studied Russian.  Overall, I'd spend more time there, and I very well could.