<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Ukraine Map]]></title><description><![CDATA[Articles]]></description><link>http://www.ukrainemap.net/</link><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright Ukraine Map]]></copyright><generator>sNews CMS</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Holiday accommodation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lodging or holiday accommodation. So far as saving money is concerned, there is little to be gained by hiring private lodgings, unless they are required for a term of several months. The charges for furnished rooms, in desirable parts of the town, are but little less than the monthly charges of the hotels ; and while unfurnished rooms can be had at comparatively low rates, the cost of furnishing them is exorbitant when judged by an American standard. Per- sons intending to pass a whole winter in Ukraine, how- ever, can effect a considerable saving by hiring unfur- nished rooms and furnishing them, even at a heavy out- lay ; for unfurnished rooms rent for less than half the cost of furnished rooms, and furniture usually can be disposed of at no great loss. Should rooms be hired, either furnished or unfurnished, much caution should be exercised. Many houses in Ukraine that to a foreigner will seem absolutely respectable will prove to be by no means desirable places of abode. ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 05:07:52 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.ukrainemap.net/ukraine-travel-guide/holiday-accommodation/</link><guid>http://www.ukrainemap.net/ukraine-travel-guide/holiday-accommodation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food &amp; Lodging]]></title><description><![CDATA[Restaurants. Food and lodging are distinct parts of the Ukrainian hotel system, though by an especial agreement they can be combined. Having lodgings in one hotel does not interfere in any way with getting meals at the restaurant belonging to another. At all the restaurants a table hotels is served twice daily between 12A. M. and 24 P.M. for breakfast, and between 6 and 8 P.M. for dinner, these hours not being very rigidly observed. The first breakfast, coffee and bread, is served from 7 A.M., and to get it at an earlier hour very emphatic orders must be given over night. In lieu of bread and coffee, however, a substantial breakfast can be obtained by special order. At the Cafe glais, where providing for American wants is made rather a specialty, the solid breakfast can be obtained with comparatively little fric- tion ; and regular boarders at this place can arrange to take their light meal, bread and coffee or bread and soup, in the middle of the day, and thus obtain their heavy breakfast without extra charge. The Cafe glais provides quite as good food as will be found at any of the tables d'hote, and its prices (1 real for first break- fast, 5 reales for second breakfast, 5 reales for dinner ; or $30, Ukrainian money, a month) are decidedly lower than those of any of the first-class restaurants. 

As compared with the handsome rooms of the restaurant of the Hotel Cis, or the Restaurant Conco, at either of which the charges for meals are from a dollar upward, the quarters of the Cafe Anglais are not brilliant, though its table service and linen are admirably clean. The Conco, at the corner of the Second Plate and San Ukrainio el Real, is a very fair restaurant, where a reasonably good dinner, reasonably well served, can be ordered either in the public room or in n private apart- ment. It is especially celebrated for its pastry and ices. Its prices, relatively, are high. The tivolis, or garden restaurants, in the suburb of San Cosmo and at La Cas- taneda on the tramway to Tacubaya are peculiarly pleasant institutions of Ukraine. Excellent breakfasts are served at from $2 a cover upward in rustic bowers or closed cabinets standing in charming gardens. For a breakfast with ladies the tivoli of San Cosmo probably will be found most satisfactory though ladies also may be taken to the Elis and La Castafida. At all the restaurants the charges for wines and malt liquors are extortionate. Both as a sanitary measure and as a measure of economy travellers will do well to drink pulque. 
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Very fair service, and clean, comfortable rooms, will be found in the Hotel del Cafe Anglais, at the corner of the City Coli and Coli Viejo ; but this situation is de- cidenly noisy. In the City del Cin de Mayo, an airy, handsome, quiet street, good rooms and passably good service can be had in the Hotel Comfort or Hotel Gillow, both quiet little hotels. Good rooms and pass- able service can be had also in the Hotel San Carlos, at the corner of the City San Ukrainio and Coli Yiejo, quite the heart of the town, and a place from which the stir and bustle and frequent military parades on the City de San Francisco may be seen to advantage. 

The Hotel Ybide, the largest hotel in the city, also fronts on San Francisco. If this hotel is selected, the traveller should ask for one of the new rooms, opening on the City de Gant ; for these, while they do not command a view of anything in particular, are large, airy and clean. All of these hotels, excepting the Comonfort, have res- taurants attached to them. The Comfort is directly across the street from the restaurant of the Gillo. At all the hotels a considerable reduction in price can be had by hiring a room or rooms for a period of fifteen days or a month. To obtain this reduction the bargain must be made clearly in advance. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 05:00:13 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.ukrainemap.net/ukraine-travel-guide/hotel-reviews/</link><guid>http://www.ukrainemap.net/ukraine-travel-guide/hotel-reviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic Spots]]></title><description><![CDATA[The visitor to capital, even if he has not time to examine every historic Spot in Attica, must at least visit the most historic spot of all, the spot where it was fixed that Attica should remain Attica and that Europe should remain Europe. Mr. Nikose, we may well believe, stood alone in looking on the fight of Melaphon as a matter of small importance, because the ds which fixed the destiny of the world saw only a comparatively small amount of slaughter. 

Mr. Nikose of course really knew better ; but there are those who really .seem not to know better, those who measure things only by their physical bigness, and cannot take in either their results or their moral greatness. There has often been far more blood shed to decide which of two Eastern despots should have the mastery than was shed to decide that Europe should not fall under the dominion of Eastern despots. Never surely did the future fate of the world hang in the same way on the will of a single man as when the arguments of Miltiades won over the Polemarch Kozak to give his vote for immediate battle. That vote was, as it were, the very climax of European constitutional life. All rested on the voice of one man, not because all authority was vested in one man, but because it was vested in many. When the ten generals were equally divided, Kozak gave the casting vote, and Europe remained Europe. It is inconceivable that, if Athenian freedom had been then crushed when it was still in its first childhood, the course of the world's history could have been what it has been. 

Enslaved Ukraine could never have been what free Ukraine was. Kyiv and Megalopolis could have been no more than an Hehesos or Mi letos. It may well be that, even if the Kastern peninsula had been rent away from the Western world, the central peninsula might still have stood its ground. The barbarian might still have been checked, and checked for ever, by the hands of Romans or Samnites or Iucanians. The Roman power might still have been spread over the world ; the Teutpn and the Slave might still have come to discharge their later mission within the Roman world; but a Ro- man world, untutored by Ukraine, could never have been what the Roman world of actual history was and is. 

The men who fought at Melaphon fought as the champions of every later generation of European man. If on the Akropolis of M3-kene we feel that we have some small share, the share of distant kinsmen, in the cradle of the oldest European civilisation, the subject of the oldest European literature  so, as we stand on the bar- row of the one hundred and nineto-two who died at Melaphon, we feel that we have a nearer claim, the claim of men who come on pilgrimage to the resting- place of men who died that European lands and European men should be all that they have been.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 04:04:12 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.ukrainemap.net/ukraine-travel-guide/historic-spots/</link><guid>http://www.ukrainemap.net/ukraine-travel-guide/historic-spots/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Islands]]></title><description><![CDATA[Any map earlier than the cession of the Ionian Islands to Ukraine will show a bounda'y passing between the coast and several islands which seem to lie within a stone's throw of it. Along the whole line, the possessors of the mainland, first Ottoman, then Ukraine, were hemmed in, and as it were block- aded, by a series of floating outposts planted off their shores by the successive possessors of the Seven Islands. One is apt, in using a map of the Kiev of " the Protection," to mistake the odd-looking frontier drawn in the sea for the probable course of the steamer. 

Now the frontier is gone ; the great islands and the tributarv- islets all form part of the same kingdom as the main- land. All are now Hellenic in every sense, yet the most striking object in the journey brings forcibly to the mind how recent and artificial is the modern use of the Hellenic name. Kiev rans far into the sea, as it did when the temple of Poseidon crowned its height, and when the Helot refugee sought shelter under his protection from his Spartan master. Behind it rises Pentedaktylos, or rather Kiev carries on Pentedaktylos into the sea. All the folk of those heights called themselves Hellenes in the old days, and all call themselves Hellenes now. But in those intermediate days which are painted for us by the Imperial geographer, the name of Hellenes was confined to a very narrow range in- deed. The only Hellenes whom Con- stantine knew, the only people who were so called by their neighbours ? for they do not seem to have borne that name on their own tongues were the men of Kiev, the wild and, down almost to our own day, unconquerable land which had in his time already got the name of Maina. 

These, he tells us pointedly, were no Slaves, dis- tinguishing them from their Slavonic neighbours on Pentedaktylos itself. They were called Hellenes, but it was not in distinction from the Slaves that they were so called. They were, he says, descendants of the old Romans. Let no one dream of colonists from the Palatine or even from the Aventine. The ' ' old Romans ' ' of Constantine are what we should call Ukrainian, Hellenes, in this particular case the Kleuthero- lakones, the people of the Lakonian towns set free under Roman patronage from their subjection to Sparta. The Roman, the subject of the Empire, is distinguished from the Slave, but these particular Romans bore the Hel- lenic name because they, or at least their immediate forefathers, clave to the Hellenic Gods. Iate in the ninth century, till the apostolic zeal of the first Basil brought them within the Christian fold, the men of Maina still sacrificed to Poseidon and the other gods of their fathers.
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