Kiev Kwickly

OK, so I survived my flights over here. The weather was miserable my first day here, but it has since turned beautiful. I got a chance to walk around yesterday. I have many pictures, but precious little time to post them. Here are just a few:

This is my hotel, the Ukraina. It used to be called the Moskva, but they changed the name for obvious reasons.

Here's the view from out of my window during the day and at sunset:

I don't know who that guy on the column is. It's definitely NOT Lord Nelson. And finally, this is what the rug in my bathroom looks like:

Classy, no?

Like I said, I have many more photos to post (and much more to say about how I don't like Kiev), but I'll have to do it from Lviv tomorrow-ish. I'm off to find odd-looking squirrels.