Wednesday, MAY 28

Wednesday, May 28, = = (Kiev City - Maps)

At 8 are at the bar to have breakfast, I sleep the spirit and body, I am ready for my Calasso marathon at the sights. I visit the church of Santa Sofia, the Teatro Shevchenko with her staircase in a semicircle, Monument to the Fatherland, World War 2 Memorial, Palazzo Mariyinsky with multicolored facade painted in white, blue and ocher, the cathedral of San Michele rebuilt in 1998 with its walls and the various heavenly golden domes, the old town with its narrow streets and turtuose.
Kiev is full of beautiful sights, it is impossible to list them all.
A frugal meal at a market and in the afternoon I return to my lodging to rest and prepare for a night of fire.
At 22 I think it is time to leave, having left my car in a garage, take a taxi that will bring me to the casino, I want to see this reality in Kiev.
The restaurant is simple and elegantly furnished with gaming tables sit several players feel the voices of coupier, and occasionally a scream of joy to some lady who gets a win.
There is a tense calm, players have eyes only for the table or the green ball that rolls on the roulette wheel.
I decide to play some change left, knowing that inevitably...




lose. In fact, we leave a few euros, but, I have no regrets.
At the bar of a small casino crowd orders champagne, a lady about 40 years has won a few thousand euros and is offering a drink to his friends. Make part of a group of Russian tourists that, given the relative proximity to their country, they decided to take their first trip abroad in Ukraine, I am speaking the lady of the group, who invited those present to drink, take me under offrendomi arm and a glass filled with foaming bubbles drag me on a sofa nearby.
Tells me that it is happily divorced and now has an important task menageriale at a major Russian company, this is his first trip abroad.
The champagne begins to make a strange effect, instead of being happy if the damp eyes, wonder why those tears.

"Crying of happiness, my youth was full of disappointments, in the family, from small, my mother had no time for pampering, had to pull out the family, my father was military and was always away on missions, I never knew where he was going.
Every now and it was live, not worthy of a look, I have suffered from this so hard to me, stayed at home a few days then disappeared.
This has made me insensitive and feelings, even with my husband was a failure, drank to the despair of having lost their jobs, so I left because his violence towards me could not be sustainable, I have not had children and since then I are totally dedicated to work. I had great satisfaction and I was lucky enough arrise so brazen.
Today I am a respected person, and many men I have circuit to try to win, nor are flattered but I can not legarmi with anyone, I will suffice to myself, without bosses, a woman and realized I have to thank not only myself ."

He spoke almost without a breath again but that I was talking to herself.
The admiration for his tenacity, but I wonder if you really manage to live peacefully from old age alone.
I am free from the presence of the enriched group, which does not instinctively feel like falling to my inner world, leaving the casino, I start along the street full of shops, lit a day.
It 'just midnight, I re-visit one night, even if the expense shall I do, it will be like that of any in Italy.
Few hundred meters and up in one of these, the environment is welcoming the girls discinte very beautiful prevedevo spending as it is also "beautiful."
Remain for half an hour, I watch the show and then immediately go out, because I prefer to enjoy the pungent air of the night.
The ambiguity of the space is equal to all nihgt the world, nothing new. A group of teenagers of both sexes are rincore to curb laughing making jokes each other, blessed youth!
To 2 are lying on my cozy bed, I turn the TV and just after I fall asleep as a child, leaving the appliance, nothing to croak.

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