nam 29 April 2008
Well, there was only one way to get him back – I have been forced to make a trip to Ukraine. Tis like a dawn raid to recapture a fallen soldier/comrade (there’s a soviet joke available but won’t go there as we live in modern times and thank goodness too) so, dawn raidy except lovely and fun. Yup, I am in Odessa. I have been here once before in the freezing cold and LOVED it and I must report it’s even nicer in the warmer weather. So cosmopolitan. Over a hundred different nationalities live here and the architecture is incredibly European (well, of course it is, most of the historical stuff was built around the same times and eras as those of Paris and Italy and so on). At present I am in THE coolest basement bar I have ever encountered with free wifi. Had a fantastic meal in the city’s top place to eat (my opinion and that of anyone with any sense) Klara Bara. Most extraordinary is that we met a wild cat who lived outside it two years ago and he’s still ‘in residence’ – clearly clever enough to use us humans to feed him and yet also retain his roving ways. He is Top Kot (male cat, pa russki). Now, comrades, back to a lively pale local beer (YES I WROTE SOME NOVEL EARLIER – crikey, you lot are getting even worse than my own conscience)
