Thread: Travel Blog; CIS/ex-USSR countries (i.e. Russian speaking)

Originally Posted by rockzmom

I think I failed and maybe the pony express is faster....

Rockzmom - Move to Kiev! Extremely cool city for lots of different reasons. Fantastic buildings, nice parks - quality shopping, cheap shopping, good food, seems completely safe - and a ride on the metro is 10 cent USD. People are mostly friendly and cool...

No just kidding, but what is going on with your internet connection? Have you only got dial-up, not broadband? If that's supposed to be broadband, then you are being ripped off! There are quite a lot of things you can't do online, with such bad speeds.

Originally Posted by Hanna

Rockzmom - Move to Kiev! Extremely cool city for lots of different reasons. Fantastic buildings, nice parks - quality shopping, cheap shopping, good food, seems completely safe - and a ride on the metro is 10 cent USD. People are mostly friendly and cool...

No just kidding, but what is going on with your internet connection? Have you only got dial-up, not broadband? If that's supposed to be broadband, then you are being ripped off! There are quite a lot of things you can't do online, with such bad speeds.

Hanna, I must say first off... I have been enjoying your blog very much. Thank you for including all of us on your vacation!!!

I am also glad to read that you found your iron! That was an episode all it's own I learned traveling to El Salvador to only pack wash and wear items as everything is washed in the stone sinks and lined dry and many times there is no power so you can't iron. However, it is hard to find nice affordable garments these days that fit that bill.

I am also learning about SIM cards from you. Never knew about them before.

About my netspeed... hmmm. Well it is the cheapest you can get without being dialup, so I guess it is basically the "new" dialup. Maybe soon I can afford faster. I heard the other day that many people in the US are giving up cable TV (and their TVs, less homes have TVs than last year) and just getting faster, better, stronger Internet and using that for everything. Watching their TV via Hulu and movies online via NetFlicks or whatever. This way they are saving the cost of the cable bill. Maybe we will go that way too.

Lampada.... thanks.. I don't feel sooooo bad now!

About our hotels I can say nothing, sorry, I had never used it.

Now I live in Minsk, but maybe I will go to the Brest on holidays, so if you need some help just ask. But my English is bad and pronunciation is awful

Originally Posted by Hanna

Rockzmom - Move to Kiev! Extremely cool city for lots of different reasons. Fantastic buildings, nice parks - quality shopping, cheap shopping, good food, seems completely safe - and a ride on the metro is 10 cent USD. People are mostly friendly and cool...

No just kidding, but what is going on with your internet connection? Have you only got dial-up, not broadband? If that's supposed to be broadband, then you are being ripped off! There are quite a lot of things you can't do online, with such bad speeds.

Now we know this forum is being watched

A couple of days ago some Verizon folks were canvasing the neighborhood and offered me a better plan for Internet, Cable and telephone. So I am now paying less per month than I did before and check out my new speed test...




Still not as fast as you Basil... but at least I'm not in the stone age any longer! The only downside, I have to figure out how to use the new digital phone service and learn all the cable channel numbers as they are all different... grrrr.

Originally Posted by Hanna

In a Western European context this word usually refers to old hospitals for people who had TB. But most people are probably also aware that it means spa, for Russian speakers.

Thanks for the explanation. I had not heard it used as such before.

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Now we know this forum is being watched

A couple of days ago some Verizon folks were canvasing the neighborhood and offered me a better plan for Internet, Cable and telephone. So I am now paying less per month than I did before and check out my new speed test...

It might be speedtest that is leaking (for a fee) to verizon. Much more direct route than searching MR.