Shopping on your Ukraine Holiday

Ukrainian Wooden Dolls

What to Buy on your Ukraine Holiday: The Ukraine is a country that is shaking off its Soviet past and in a hurry to become a Westernised country.   Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, now has many attributes of a Western city with large shopping malls, recreation centres and shops and boutiques that carry branded luxury goods. In Kiev city centre alone there are five huge shopping malls: City Centre - 7 Kreshchatik St. Globus - Maidan Nezalezhnosty Square Mandarin-Plaza - 6 Basseynaya … [Read more...]

Shopping on your Estonian holidays

Shopping: Where to shop on your Estonian holidays If you think your credit card is safe in Estonia and that there's nothing to buy here, think again! Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the shopping scene in Estonia has morphed beyond recognition. There’s been an explosion of shopping malls, shopping centres and department stores in recent years. For this small country and population, the number of shopping outlets is amazing. Whilst the shops do not have the range and big names that … [Read more...]