Rest in Mirny with a child did not bring benefits in the treatment of respiratory organs
We rested in the village of Mirny, Crimea with a 4-year-old child in late July - early August 2012 for 13 days. Upon arrival, we were greeted (and did not subside for a week! Even at night) by a strong wind, raising dust to several meters, a scorching sun, burned out all living things and cracked earth. This "healing" air "filled with the aroma of steppe herbs" and had to breathe throughout the rest. Maybe in March-April the air is filled with those very herbs, but then all living things dry out, thorns remain.
The Mirny settlement consists only of five-story buildings (there is no private sector and there is not a single boarding house and sanatorium nearby - we draw conclusions about the benefits of rest), in one of which on Syrnikova Street, which is closer to the sea, we rented our quite decent two-room apartment without air conditioning for 350 hryvnia per day (it was cheaper to rent a room in an apartment with an iron bed with a net, a chair, a hanger and a table, which we refused - only 25 dollars). By the evening, all the shortcomings came up. Being in the apartment was unbearable because of the heat: the fifth floor, and no technical floor above (our ceiling was the roof of the house). During the day, the roof warmed up so much that it did not have time to cool down at night, it was simply impossible to sleep. And the fifth floor in the heat without an elevator is not a gift. The plumbing was in very poor condition, the toilet stank, so don't forget to look into the bathroom and toilet and check the condition of the plumbing.
Water according to the schedule: in the morning a couple of hours and in the evening a couple of hours. In the morning you go to the sea, you come, there is no water. Same thing in the evening. The whole rest they stored water and washed, pouring from a bottle, they also washed the dishes. If you didn’t go to the sea and fell on the water, then there was no pressure and the boiler turned off every now and then, again you had to wash yourself from the basin. Often there was rusty water and the washed linen turned from white to red, cockroaches crawled in the bathroom at night.
Mirny is located BEHIND the village of Popovka, and Popovka is on the very shore. Therefore, it is 1.5-2.5 km from Mirny to the sea (see the satellite map, you can see everything). We walked from Syrnikova street for 20 minutes. Faster is simply unrealistic, just run! The road to the beach is a dusty roadside, each car throws dust on the walking one. And after the rain, the road in some places was completely flooded so that it was impossible to pass.
The sea is amazing - beautiful, calm, clean, shallow, white sand with small shells - like in a fairy tale! There is always a place on the beach, but there are a lot of people. There are no changing rooms, no toilets and showers, no trash cans either, only sand and the sea. There were cigarette butts in the sand on the shore, empty bottles were lying around. There were many large (10-20 cm in diameter) blue and purple jellyfish in the water. If touched, you can get burned, not much like nettles, but the child was so afraid of them that it was impossible to persuade him to go into the water. I had to water it from a bucket, so that there would be some benefit from the sea. For the first week, a strong gusty wind blew from the steppe to the sea, bringing with it very sharp thorns to the sea, which grow along the way to the beach, if you step on it, it will not seem enough. After dinner and in the evening, the wind lashed the body with small, sharp shell rock so much that the children screamed and cried. We wrapped them in towels and left. A week later, the wind became quieter, and after 10 days it blew from the sea - that's when we finally smelled it - the smell of the sea! I was happy as a child! In general, strong winds always blow in the western Crimea, because. there are no mountains that would protect from the wind. This did not make it possible to put an umbrella from the sun - it was carried away to the sea immediately (only a couple of days out of two weeks were calm). Also, for all the time we never went to sunbathe - the wind covered our face and hair with sand. It was impossible to sit quietly on the bedspread and eat a watermelon or melon for the same reason - only standing. On the beach you could buy corn, fish, baklava, ice cream, etc. But the water was so warm and clean that we spent all the time in the water, and did not want to lie down.
Entertainment: the main street, along which there are tents with souvenirs, toys, selling pizza, shawarma, ice cream, beer, etc. Carousels for children, children's fishing, a shooting range, an amusement park, a trailer that travels around the village with children's music, summer cafes with music, all kinds of excursions to anywhere in the Crimea, etc. At sea - riding on a banana, on an inflatable boat and on a sailboat, zorb. At the entrance to the beach - kvass, ice cream, Crimean pasties for 10 and 15 hryvnias with cheese and meat (very tasty! ), pilaf, etc.
We ate ourselves - we bought food in the store and in the market. We went to the dining room only a couple of times - the queue is long and the prices are too big (in Evpatoria in the Dino Park it’s even cheaper). Stores are so-so - the range and quality of products, service leave much to be desired. I bought New World champagne, it turned out to be expired, I had to go to change it. They tried to put a price on the wine, referring to the fact that they forgot to change the price tag in the window. They bought milk once it was not even sour, but bitter! In short, it was very annoying.
As for the bus station (a stall in the middle of the village), Soviet-era buses were thrown into the Western Crimea, which I had not seen for 10 years, they drive on parole (somehow wildly, on the southern coast of Crimea everything is soft and air-conditioned). On the way to Evpatoria (we went to the Dino Park and the Dolphinarium), the previous bus broke off in the middle of the road in an empty steppe. We had to pick up all the people, they barely fit with bags and suitcases, with children. The bus was supposed to come to the station, but ours also broke off at the entrance to the city (the doors were jammed). People climbed out through the driver's door, afraid to miss the train, we also spat and got out, drove to the station by tram). On the day of departure, we went on a soft bus (the only flight at 6 am), we had to leave half a day earlier in order to travel comfortably and not worry that we would be late for the train, I had to buy tickets in advance).
Once in Mirny, you might think that you found yourself in the 80s. Shops and roads, buses, etc. , that did not know repair. Sad even somehow. I missed to tears the mountainous Southern Crimea, immersed in greenery with healing clean air, pleasing to the eye, or Koktebel...
There is no benefit from the above rest for a child with asthma. After inhalation of dust and a stuffy apartment, a month after arrival, 3 severe asthma attacks occurred with an interval of 2 weeks. For comparison, after the Southern coast of Crimea there were no attacks for half a year (where the Lebanese cedar, Crimean pine, juniper, laurel bushes, etc. grow - this is what is needed for recovery. It is not for nothing that there are many sanatoriums for the treatment of respiratory diseases).
Probably, it was worth visiting here, in Mirny, once, just to see such a beautiful sea. But to come here again for recovery is pointless.
And who wants to admire the clear sea, I advise you to rent a house in the private sector in Popovka on the seashore (the main thing is not during the Kazantip festival, which takes place in August, if you want a relaxing family vacation). And who by car - it is better to drive beyond Mirny and stay for 3-4 days on the South Spit, where there is an empty and clean beach and the cleanest sea!