Last Autumn Ania, Sasha (a local volunteer) and I went to Kharkiv, a city close to Donetsk.

We started our journey at Saturday morning with one of the fast trains installed for the Euro 2012 and after a for Ukrainians short train ride of 4 hours we arrived at our destination. Kharkiv, the city of universities and former capital of the Ukraine, enchanted me. There is an active restaurant, bar and cafe scene, nice museums and it is much more international than Donetsk. They actually had Austrian beer!!

After intense sightseeing and a lovely stop at a bookstore, always a dangerous task with me, we stepped into Puzata Hata, an amazing Ukrainian fast food restaurant. There I showed off my breathtaking Russian skills. And thanks to Sasha, who taped all of it you can be part of this astonishing conversation.