The elevators in Ukraine are so small, these doors are the width of my suitcase Once inside, we either had to cram against each other OR take separate elevator cars.
Our swimming pool at the Intourist Hotel in Zaporizhzhia
The night view outside the Intourist Hotel.
This was a very traditional Ukrainian restaurant. Wood, furs, pottery and intricate tapestry everywhere.
They served THE best veronyky, (pronounced Veronica) which is the Ukranian word for perogie. These were the cherry ones! Who says you can’t have dessert for dinner?
There is so much garlic in the food that they serve you gum instead of mints.
This is the Mennonite Centre in Molochansk.
A memorial was erected in 2001 at the site of the Massacre of 1919 when over 70 Mennonites were massacred in Eichenfeld-Dubowka in the Yasykovo settlement. This memorial was enroute to Molochansk from Zaporizhzhia.
There was a small cemetery near the Massacre Memorial. All the graves had plastic flowers and pictures of the deceased on the headstones. It was definitely a different feeling from most cemeteries as I walked from graveside to graveside looking into
Hospital waiting room chairs in Molochansk.
To save power at the Molochansk Hospital, they hardly use the lights.
A window ledge at the Molochansk Hospital.
Peeling paint at the Molochansk Hospital
Molochansk Hospital, telephone lines up on the wall.
What looked at first as graffiti, was some great mosaic tile artwork. ALL the bus stops had different mosaic pieces.
The road to Tokmak was riddled with huge potholes.
The roads were so bad that you couldn’t go very fast and it created a car ballet of sorts with oncoming traffic, everyone going every which way to find the least non bumpy route.
One of the many buildings at the Tokmak Hospital, each building housed different medical specialties.
We met the head director of the Tokmak Hospital and got to take a tour of the maternity ward to see how the money from the mennonite centre was used to purchase new equipment.
This is the wheelchair and stretcher ramp at the Tokmak Hospital. It had such a steep grade.
At the Tokmak hospital, in the maternity ward, I stumbled on this room. I’m not quite sure what this room was used for, but maybe a quiet breast-feeding room? or a staff room of sorts?
The main maternity surgical room in the Tokmak hospital
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