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 Sofia holiday, Bulgaria

The Shopping Scene: Over the past years more multinational companies have been setting up in Sofia and there are now more luxurious hotels, shopping malls, restaurants and entertainment centres in the city centre.  Along the big boulevards like Tsarigradsko Shousse and Nikola Vaptsarov, a variety of modern business centres are also being built. The brand new underground that connects the city centre with the outskirts now also brings more people into the city. Shopping malls like City Centre … [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...]