My Crimean voyage
I did not plan a trip to the Crimea, everything turned out spontaneously. My brother was invited to a wedding in Feodosia by friends and he invited me to go with him. I won’t write about the wedding itself, it’s not relevant to the case. Although it is worth noting one thing. After painting, the newlyweds planned a boat trip on a steamboat, long and meticulously chose this same steamboat so that guests could walk around the deck under an awning, so that there were comfortable benches, agreed on tables for a buffet table and that the team was in sea uniform (for this, the groom paid good money in advance). Everything seems to be agreed. After painting, we arrive at the maritime parking - not an ordered steamboat awaits us, but a small shabby boat for children's excursions with several rows of low benches, without an awning, with a tiny cabin and a half-naked team of two people in greasy shorts. It turns out that the owner resold our steamboat to another client for a couple of hundred in excess of the price paid by the newlyweds. As a result, they fried for several hours in the sun, bending over in three deaths. We reached the Golden Gate, the engine stalled, the team failed to fix it and another boat was called, which towed this rusty trough to Feodosia. The witness lost consciousness, everyone was burned in the sun. Upon returning to Feodosia in the port, instead of going to a restaurant, we argued with the owner of the boats for 40 minutes. The beach in Feodosia is something. Dirty, crowded, almost right next to one another, forced by sunbeds, it’s uncomfortable to rest, they smoke on the sunbeds, the smoke is all in your face. The sea is quite clean and warm. But the railway, which runs in the immediate vicinity of the beach, negates all the pleasure of relaxing on the Feodosia beach. Cafes are insanely expensive, we went to the dining room near the Green Museum. The menu was extensive, but the huge queues of vacationers and the frantic search for a free table turned the eating process into flour. I liked the Aivazovsky Museum, but the cost of the ticket is unreasonably high, and the paintings in the exposition, as the kind uncle who volunteered to be our guide, told us, became much less than under the Union. I also did not like the Green Museum - expensive and nothing interesting. expected more. The people are greedy, not directly a city, but a "pirate base" inhabited by "John Silvers" alone. We stopped near some inflatable doll, a Tatar flies up with shouts of “Pay, you were photographed”, bought ice cream (the price is exorbitant compared to Lviv), my brother held a camera in his hand, he was given change for 10 UAH. less than expected, motivating that you will be photographed with an advertising fake ice cream cone, they barely knocked us back, at the station we were met by my brother’s friends in a car - a local taxi driver flew up with obscenities and swearing and promises of cruel reprisals against the driver of our car, they say, how can we not we go by taxi. Is this normal? I was photographed on the embankment in the costume of a court lady in a carriage. The girl said at first the price of 30 UAH. for a suit, then began to extort another 20 UAH. they say it costs all 50 hryvnia. But the scandal in the Armenian church, which my brother and I examined, became the apotheosis. The minister began to demand money from us for the inspection and demanded that we buy candles from him (although I already put a good bill in the donation box), shouted, grabbed my hand. I took out a handful of iron rubles and several pieces of paper for 1 and 2 hryvnias and threw them in his face, he rushed to pick everything up. I still can not calm down, as I remember. The only thing that I liked in Feodosia itself was a sea excursion to Sudak to the Genoese fortress (everyone climbed there), what awesome sea views there, a good trip to the Biostation to the Dolphinarium. Expensive, very expensive, but worth it. The performance is excellent and the dolphins are such darlings, and fur seals are cute. At the Biostation, there is an excellent marine museum-aquarium and a research assistant gave us a wonderful tour. The nature itself at the Biostation is amazingly beautiful, mountains reign over everything, where the king and queen sit on thrones and look at the sea (these are such rocks). We lived in the village of Bulk, in the private sector. The hostess (a relative of the bride) rented us a room with a kitchen, a bathroom and a separate entrance. We paid her symbolic money (40 UAH per day for everything about everything) But she fed us breakfast for free. For myself, I made one conclusion - no more foot in Feodosia, even if they pay me for staying in it.
