Kiev Local Custom Tips by Bobek

In the heat of summer in the city Kievians buy tons of water melons to quench their thirst and have something for refreshment. Virtually on every corner you can find trucks or big cages full of melons, the latter serving as storage space during the night while the salespeople take their well-deserved snooze.

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Kievians love to spend the afternoons or evenings outside in the near forests or in places where it is possible to meet for a picnic. That is basically easy in this green city.

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Superstition is a widely spread peculiarity in Ukraine. There are several things you should avoid in order to not leave your person opposite helpless and playing according the local rules:

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How could I tell this was worth a separate tip? Well take a bath in a tub and you will know.

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Here is a tip that may be "international" in the best sense and border-breaking. And since it is so much advanced in how the world should be I wish to dedicate these words about the experience of openness and friendliness I found when travelling Ukraine to those Kievian children I have had the real pleasure, the honour to make friends with. Looking at them made me wonder what is it that makes us grown-ups so sceptical when we meet each other? Is it fear? Is it the lack of curiousity? What has made us so bitter? So desperately selfish and alone in consequence, so hostile to strangers, intolerant against people who do not speak our language or dress differently? What the heck makes some of us act so low towards strangers in our home country when we are foreigners in every place in this world as well; almost everywhere. What makes us so ignorant? What makes us the sharks that we are? Where has our heart gone?

I am grateful for the purity of friendship I was offered by children and the lessons in truth, acceptance and simple wisdom they taught me again. I owe them my love; and I certainly owe them much more than this: I owe them to practise what they taught me. Will we understand their lessons...?

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Of course every nation has some common habits that eventually differ from other local customs. It could well be that some descriptions I have put in here in this category may also apply for Ukraine as a whole but I would not write such things about the country without deeper insight into specific Ukrainian habits. So I keep with Kiev where most of my experiences are rooted.

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