The first impressions of an American from the reserved seat "Kyiv - Berdyansk". VIDEO

Screenshot of Peter Santenello Youtube Video

Peter Santenello, an American traveler from San Francisco, shared his impressions of the trip in the reserved seat of the Kiev-Berdyansk train.

The first video in which an American talks about his journey is published on his YouTube-channel. A man plans to shoot a whole episode dedicated to his journey through Ukraine.

Photo: Facebook Peter Santenello Traveling

“The first hour is in the reserved seat. And the reserved seat, by the way, is pretty cool. It is something communal and very social. Everyone takes out their things, relax, read books, drink beer, eat chocolate. I like the reserved seat,” Peter says about his impressions.

The foreigner was surprised by the arrangement of the bottom bunk of the reserved seat compartment. “You put all your things under the seats, I think so that no one steals them at night while you sleep,” he shared his assumption.

Peter travels with his bicycle and in the video said that he left it in the vestibule and gave some money to the conductors so that they would be on duty and check that his vehicle was in place. He also talked about a small disadvantage - the carriages are not always well cleaned and you have to throw away old napkins left over from previous passengers.

The traveler was amazed that each passenger was given bed and clean linen, but he complained that it was very stuffy in the car.

In his blog, a foreigner said that 6 weeks will live in a family living in s. Osipenko (Berdyansk district) and speak only in Russian (he will continue to keep his video diary in English). A man learns a new language for himself and wants to exclude English from his life as much as possible.

Photo: Facebook Peter Santenello Traveling

In a blog, Peter said that he was helping the owner dig a well, mow grass, feed the goats and take language lessons from his daughter. Repaired toys with kids in a rural school. I tried to trade corn on the Berdyansk beaches and enthusiastically travel around the neighborhood on a bicycle - I rode along the Berdyansk-Mariupol road: “What does not kill you, it makes you stronger”.

Photo: Facebook Peter Santenello Traveling

“I feel bad that I came here and can’t talk to people properly. It was difficult, I was like Tarzan jumping on the vines, all these unfinished sentences,” the American shared his first impressions of life in a Ukrainian family.

Photo: Facebook Peter Santenello Traveling

Photo: Facebook Peter Santenello Traveling

Photo: Facebook Peter Santenello Traveling

Previously, Santenello visited Cherkasy and lived in Kiev for more than three months. In his blog, he said that he came to Kiev from Italy to see friends and planned to spend only a few days in the city and then go on a long journey back to Rome via Eastern Europe - by train and bus, but decided to stay in the capital of Ukraine.

“Whereas Rome and Italy seemed frozen, stuck in their patterns, too touristy, fading and emotionally unstable, Kyiv showed signs of hope, strength and newness - like a strong flower breaking through solid soil. There was an optimism among the local youth - a passionate energy flowing into new concepts of restaurants, coffee shops, and the masterful production of excellent furniture and high-quality textiles. I felt Kyiv in large-scale art installations on the walls of old houses and in the sounds of the violin heard in the concrete subway passages,” the foreigner wrote in his blog in February 2017.

He noted that life in Kyiv is inexpensive, the location allows you to be in touch with the whole world (two hours flight to Istanbul or Berlin). “It's an adventurous place, it has soul, the women are beautiful and the city is real, with deep human connections, humble but rich in history,” says Peter.

According to the American, Ukraine is a country of opportunity. “This is a country riddled with corruption, but with favorable taxation (depending on business structure), and a lot of young talent... The workforce in Kyiv is skilled and costs are low,” writes Santenello.

“In many ways, life here feels very free. This, of course, depends on various factors, in particular the socio-economic realities of a person. But in general, in Ukraine there are not as many petty rules as in the West,” concluded Santenello.

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