Kaniv and Hrebeni

A couple of weeks ago, I went on an excursion to the city of Kaniv and to the village of Hrebeni. My non-cp English teacher invited me to go with the same people I met the previous week at the Cossack site and others that belong to that organization.

We met in Pavlograd that Friday night, boarded a marshrukta and drove through the night to Kaniv, which is located in Cherkasy oblast. We arrived at about 5 am and took pictures with the statue on the main road of a man playing a bandura, Ukraine's national instrument (like a guitar), along with watching the sunrise.

From there, we went to the village of Hrebeni which is located in Kyiv oblast. From here, I can't give many factual details because there was too much going on and not enough translating for me to keep up. We met some woman artist at her summer cottage, which was very pretty. Then we walked to an overlook of the Dnipro River. It was gorgeous. We then walked some more and found some kind of building that looked like an art studio/small house where her husband was working. He is a famous children's book author and artist in Ukraine. He was also kind of eccentric. We walked around some more and picked flowers and posed for photos, and then had a picnic.

After that, we went back to Kaniv. Kaniv is the city where the famous Ukrainian writer and artist Taras Shevchenko is buried along with a museum. The weekend I went was some kind of memorial/tribute to him.