Odessa is a delightful city to walk around with its
diversity of architecture without too many communist era structures. There are old palaces, churches, parks and
monuments.
We caught a shuttle bus to the top of the town and wended
our way back downhill back to the Potemkin Steps and our ship.
Along the way we visited the Archaeological and Ethnographic
Museums, the cathedral, the spectacular opera and ballet theatre, several
palaces and public buildings.
We took photos of several statues including the Duke de
Richelieu, Pushkin and a few others but we don’t know who they were.
As all the signs are in Cyrillic script, it was hard to work
out what things were, including artefacts in the museums.
Our final leg was to walk down the Potemkin Steps to return
to the ship. There is an optical
illusion in the steps. When viewed from
the top, you can only see the landings but when viewed from the bottom, you can
only see the steps. Yes there were a lot
of steps! It was hard to get a good
photo of the steps because yesterday was Odessa’s birthday and there had been a
performance where the audience sat on the steps and there was a stage and
scaffolding in front. As we were
leaving, the scaffolding was coming down.
Shipboard life continues to be fabulous – good company and
excellent food.
1 comment:
And it looks like you are living in a blue electorate again. Bob Baldwin projected to win.
Newcastle has gone back to Labor - we spent quite some time voting today to make sure we could each place Pauline Hanson and 110 on the senate list!
Glad to hear you haven't been enslaved or emasculated!
xoxo
Di
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