PicturesEurope and the former Soviet UnionThe following pictures where taken by me during my travels abroad. They are organized by region. |
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 Street in Paderborn, Germany |
 Typical Russian Orthodox church. This on is located near the Belarus/Lithuania border. |
 That's me at a peasant house (izba) deep in the Carpathian Mountains (on the border between Romania and Ukraine). There's a great story that goes with this photo. |
 This is the apartment building where I stayed when I worked the US Embassy in Minsk. This is, oddly enough, the same building where Lee Harvey Oswald (the man who assassinated President Kennedy) lived when he defected to Minsk. |
 Street in Tallin, Estonia
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 Romanian church in Chernivtsi. |
 Southern Belarus - in the Pripyat Marshes where partisans used to hide while fighting the German Army. It is also highly contaminated from Chernobyl fallout. |
 That's me looking all intellectual in a coffee house in Amtserdam. |
 This rather depressing shot is of my dorm room bathroom while I was a student at Chernivsti University, Ukraine. |
 Church in a village outside Budapest, Hungary. |
 St. Petersburg - the Hermitage |
 Inside the Kremlin |
 More of St. Petersburg. |
 Statue of Peter the Great, the founder of St. Petersburg, who built his city as a 'window to the west' on the Baltic Sea. |
 Ukrainian village where I spent time over breaks while a student in 1991 |
 That's me in Northern Scotland after I completed a 3 month hiking excursion from London to Wick. |
 This is an abandon house (right next to the sea) where I spent two nights. It is located on the Isle of Skye. |
 View from atop a building in Warsaw. |
 A Scottish Highland cow minutes after it chased me over a stone way. This incident took place near Stirling. |
 View of the WWII oblisk in Minsk. Minsk was totally destroyed was by the invading armies of Napoleon and Hitler. |
 That's me with young Soviet army conscripts. One, the guy on my left, was a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan War. |
 The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. |
 That, of course, is me in front of St. Basil Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow. Note the Duran-Duran hairstyle and the bulge in my stomach - which is where I had my money belt hidden. Later that day I was mugged by a band of gypsies as I walked down Arbot Street. |
