{"id":591,"date":"2011-03-12T16:08:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2016-03-17T09:19:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T15:19:03","slug":"bukovel-resort-skiing-the-carpathian-mountains-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/591","title":{"rendered":"Bukovel Resort: Skiing the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.romanskaskiw.com\/Graphics\/bukovel-base-area.jpg\" width=\"250\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"right\"\/> What interested me most about my recent visit to Bukovel,   Ukraine&#8217;s  only major ski  resort, was the rapid, uneven development of the resort  and the region. Bukovel is located 240 km from L&#8217;viv, where I  lived  during my 2010-2011 Fulbright Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Before dawn on Saturday, we went to the statue of  [Ukranian scholar and statesman] Mykhailo Hrushevski, where a private  bus picked  up all the skiers. Many L&#8217;viv residents  make day trips,  leaving at 4am and  returning at 10 in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>At about 8:30, we  passed our hotel near Bukovel and  asked the bus driver to drop us off. Four and a half hours is a long  time to  travel 240 km, and a testament to the state of Ukaine&#8217;s roads.  For much of the trip, the bus weaved from the  adjacent shoulder, across  the lane of oncoming traffic and into the opposite  shoulder to avoid  potholes.<\/p>\n<p>The gross  corruption and incompetence of the  Ukrainian government is universally blamed  for the pathetic condition  of the roads (among many other things). Ukrainians are all holding their  breaths for  Euro Cup 2012, some with fear of national humiliation,  others with childlike  anticipation of calamity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gonomad.com\/features\/1103\/ukraine-bukovel.html\">Read more at gonomad.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To read more about my travels in Ukraine and reflections, visit my other site, <a href=\"http:\/\/romaninukraine.com\/\">romaninukraine.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What interested me most about my recent visit to Bukovel, Ukraine&#8217;s only major ski resort, was the rapid, uneven development of the resort and the region. Bukovel is located 240 km from L&#8217;viv, where I lived during my 2010-2011 Fulbright Scholarship. Before dawn on Saturday, we went to the statue of [Ukranian scholar and statesman] &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/591\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[44],"tags":[48],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}