Belarus Travel Stories Articles

The Belarus Ordeal – Minsk, Belarus

Heading to Minsk sounds like a good idea to Lee Ab

From Baltic to the Black Sea #5

Belavia Belarusian Airlines, the world’s favourite airline 3 September 1999
Dear All,

I got up at glorious 4:30am to get ready for an exciting flight on Belavia to Crimea. This was one of the most exciting and fascinating flights I have ever taken, and tells everybody about everything that has gone right (1%) and wrong [...]

From Baltic to the Black Sea #4

Belarus (My 50th country) 2 September 1999
Doobre Zhen,
(Hello in Belarussian)

Actually, there’s no point writing in Belarussian, as few people, even the Belarussians, speak this language. Belarussian nationalists claim that they are a separate race from the Russians but have been excessively Russified such that they have forgotten their mother tongue. Others, for [...]