Vacation in Odessa

After long winter spring finally came to Odessa — thanks to everyone who survived:) Few spring fotos from our blog author — Nastya. Photographer shoots Odessa yards all year round, and, if you didn’t know that — Odessa yards are real trademark!   In fact, Odessa cats are trademarks even more! Cant say this one is cute, but definitely he has his own charm.

*From our own Privoz shopping stories. We went to Privoz to buy mushrooms. Bought 1 kilo, then checked the pack on the control scales — it appeared that the actual weight of that «kilo» was 750 grams. We returned to the seller, gave the pack back and took back our money. Then found another one point of mushroom sale. — «How much are the mushrooms?» — «27 grivnas per kilo»  [ Read More ]

Dear friends, We have great news! Forbes edition included Odessa tram to the list of the world’s most interesting tram routes! Tram system in Odessa is not the longest, not overloaded, and to be honest — not so beautiful. Most of the trams are the same as all over FSU. So what is the secret? The matter is that Odessa tram is famous all over the world due to the fact  [ Read More ]

Hi everyone! Time flies and just in a few days spring will come to our beautiful city. For me it means a lot of work, as i am developing new tours around Odessa, new concepts and facilities. To be honest, during the cold season there is not much of interesting to do in the city. But there is a lot to see! And today i’ve selected for you a set  [ Read More ]

Dear friends, you all know how the summer looks like in Odessa. Nice weather, crazy parties, tasty food and, of course, amazing beaches. Hereby you can see how it looks like in winter 2012:)   What is really worthy to be mentioned, that frozen sea is VERY unusual for Odessa. Last time it happened in 1977, so this is the first time in the last 35 years when people are  [ Read More ]

Dear friends! All the best wishes from Odessa for you in 2012! Let it be the year of your great success. Let it be the year of amazing journeys and impressions. Let it be the unforgettable one, fulfilled with positive news, lots of happiness and love.  We wish you to reach all of your professional and personal goals, be successfull in all meanings, and may all the people who are  [ Read More ]

You can see modern Odessa from the level of bird flight on this video. Absolutely modern — July, 2011. The flight begins above the sea port, then passes the ship terminal, Shevchenko park, stadium «Chernomorets», seaside of Odessa. We can watch roofs of the houses that are situated in the center of Odessa, the biggest observation wheel in Ukraine, sea, yachts, fishermen. It is seen that the weather is great  [ Read More ]

Last Saturday our team had a great journey. We had provided wine-tour for our tourists and had a pleasure to accompany them for visiting the factory of Guliev Wines. Guliev Wines have long history. They take their beginning from the oldest wine-plant in the region — OdessaVinProm, that was founded in  1857. Since that times factory has bottled millions of wine bottles. And in the end of 20th century it  [ Read More ]

On Tuesday I was showing Odessa to the guest of our city within 7 hours. The great route and interesting company made me recall one meeting and be late to other one — I just couldn’t stop talking about my beloved city! It is the same if you will work as an eater of tasty cakes or as a listener of favorite music — I simply get a great pleasure  [ Read More ]

 Once you are in Odessa, there are several places that you definitely should visit! Of course Primorskiy boulevard, Odessa Opera Theatre and the oldest market of Odessa called «Privoz» are in a list of such places, as they were known for score of years. But today I would like to tell you about place that became popular only within last few years — Odessa Dolphinarium. I’m sure there are no  [ Read More ]