antil33t 90 Report post Posted December 16, 2009 Woman here are pretty damn tidy. Miles ahead of NZ really, sad to say. Unfortunately, I have no plans of bring any home with me. My suitcase is overweight already. I wonder if Mainfreight will allow me to ship a few back? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yng_750 247 Report post Posted December 16, 2009 I wonder if Mainfreight will allow me to ship a few back? group buy? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mark247 39 Report post Posted December 20, 2009 (edited) I wondered why people enjoy going to the food court to hang out. I have now found out why. The entertainment is amazing. Last night, Oleg ( who i live with ) and his mate were kind enough to let me go out and shoot up beer bottles, on the street ( a quiet street though ) with his mates PM Makarov 9mm. Was fun until the stupid thing jammed, quality Soviet sh*t. Drunk guy coma'd out. People were standing around him getting photos. Then a fight breaks out. 2 on 1. The solo guy gave it his all though, got a few good punches in. But when the two fellas managed to break his nose on a chair it was pretty much over. Quality. Edited December 20, 2009 by Mark247 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
e30ftw 410 Report post Posted December 20, 2009 Haha mean fun. p.s I like how you plan on painting that m50 in your e30. Fluro green Craze. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mark247 39 Report post Posted December 20, 2009 Here are some less funny ones. Yesterday I went with my friend Indrek from Estonia and some students from a local University to an Orphanage in another city. Two hour drive in the worst weather ever, snow everywhere. Once we got there it was honestly the saddest place I have ever been. If anyone has been to an Orphanage you will understand, quiet a sobering experience to say the very least. The children put on a little show for us. I didn't take many photos of the place, but if you google "Ukrainian Orphanages" you will get an idea. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
laadeelaa 0 Report post Posted December 22, 2009 Isn't it amazing. So hard to adopt children in NZ now. Yet there are so many poor countires with hundreds of children, that nobody wants. Bring one back Mark. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mark247 39 Report post Posted December 23, 2009 If I had money and I wasn't a student I probably would of! Seriously, that orphanage was such a sad place. On another note, I went to Chernobyl yesterday. Took a gieger counter with me, was pretty crazy. Walking through Pripyat it was reading normal low levels of radiation because of the snow cover but as soon as you put the gieger counter up against something metal it would just fly off the scale. Very cool Also when you go close to reactor 4 it would show some pretty high figures... scary stuff.. but safe for a short amount of time I am staying in a hostel in Kiev until friday so I cant put photos up yet, but once I get back to Dnepropetrovsk Ill put a heap up. If you enjoy walking around abandoned buildings, going to Chernobyl is money well spent.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Top Secret 2 Report post Posted December 23, 2009 Chernobyl is one of my all time want-to-go places. So jealous Ghost Town and Land of the Wolves Chernobyl then and now Timm Suess Journal I recommend everyone check out these links. It's all awe inspiring stuff Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kaz 64 Report post Posted December 23, 2009 If I had money and I wasn't a student I probably would of! Seriously, that orphanage was such a sad place. On another note, I went to Chernobyl yesterday. Took a gieger counter with me, was pretty crazy. Walking through Pripyat it was reading normal low levels of radiation because of the snow cover but as soon as you put the gieger counter up against something metal it would just fly off the scale. Very cool Also when you go close to reactor 4 it would show some pretty high figures... scary stuff.. but safe for a short amount of time I am staying in a hostel in Kiev until friday so I cant put photos up yet, but once I get back to Dnepropetrovsk Ill put a heap up. If you enjoy walking around abandoned buildings, going to Chernobyl is money well spent.. Lucky you. I know I'm going there some day. How close can you get to reactor 4? When you go there, do you have to follow a tour guide around? Or can you just walk around yourself? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grant 4 Report post Posted December 23, 2009 Very cool - that is quite some trip you are having. Must be very very interesting! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mark247 39 Report post Posted December 23, 2009 Lucky you. I know I'm going there some day. How close can you get to reactor 4? When you go there, do you have to follow a tour guide around? Or can you just walk around yourself? You go into the town of Chernobyl ( where people still work 2weeks on/2weeks off ) and the tour guide from there takes you to show you around. You get maybe within about 100meters of Reactor 4. At that point my gieger counter ( i brought my own, only the guide and I had one ) was reading 1.8 to around 2.0 microsieverts per hour. Normal is between .1 and .3 microsieverts per hour. In Pripyat the guide showed us the usual places, the pool, town centre, etc and we could follow him but if we saw an interesting room or something there was nothing stopping us going in. Because of the snow in pripyat it was reading really low, about .3 but as soon as I put my gieger counter up to anything metal that was outside it was fly up. Obviously we wouldnt walk far from the guide, because there are hot spots. I would recommend going with a tour group, I'm not actually sure if you are allowed to go on your own anymore.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mark247 39 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 Ok so here are some photos of my trip to Chernobyl. I took a heap more photos, but I have only resized a few for now. This is one of the vehicles they used in the clean up. Around the vehicle it measued about .3 of the gieger counter.. which is safe. On the tracks it measured 8.0! Reactor 4, where it all went down in 1986. Measured about 1.8 on the gieger counter. Welcome to Pripyat One of the buildings in the centre of Pripyat Pripyat Near the amusement park in Pripyat Me at the ferris wheel Swimming pool. Inside buildings it measured very low radiation. The library in the school Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
e30ftw 410 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 Reminds me of call of duty 4 lol. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mark247 39 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 Reminds me of call of duty 4 lol. lol pretty much. You'd have to sit pretty close to the tele to reinact the radiation levels though! Here are some more pics A nice book about Lenin Some stuff on the ground Backstage in the main theatre in Pripyat Some apartments A sign a recognized from the internet so I took a photo of it One of the schools in Pripyat, which looks a lot like the school I am working at teaching English! (design I mean) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
2002 1 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 Reminds me of call of duty 4 lol. I'm more reminded of Half life 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turboprop 0 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 I'm more reminded of Half life 2HL2 graphics arent that good.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
laadeelaa 0 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 I'm getting quite a geography lesson from this thread. Chur Mark. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mark247 39 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 I'm getting quite a geography lesson from this thread. Chur Mark. lol It's a rather bias geography lession missing out the boring bits haha. Here are some photos of Kiev, for anyone remotely interested Centre of Kiev Centre of Kiev Memorial for all the people who died from starvation in the Ukraine in the early 30's when the Soviets decided to sell all their crops to others so they could buy other sh*t ( short history lession for Emily ) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kerry 10 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 (edited) what a out of it place that is . edit- no need to quote post and images from the previous post Edited December 25, 2009 by Mike Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grant 4 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 Keep up the photos and the posts Mark. This is fascinating! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mark247 39 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 (edited) Keep up the photos and the posts Mark. This is fascinating! I'm afraid the photos may of hit their peak of fasination at Pripyat.. I'm gonna have to keep working hard to keep them interesting... Here are a few more pics anyway. I couldn't be bothered resizing them before, but now that I'm mildly drunk and cant sleep... it's a bleeze. lol. Reactor 5 and 6 cooling tower Reactor 5 which was never finished after melt down in 86. Radioactive wild dog Edited December 25, 2009 by Mark247 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
2002 1 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 HL2 graphics arent that good.... I was more refering to the architecture. IIRC one of the developers for Half Life 2 was from this part of the world Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mike 1 Report post Posted December 25, 2009 Reminds me of call of duty 4 lol. exactly what I was thinking, particularly after that last of pictures that he's put up with the apartment blocks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AN E30 Fan 1 Report post Posted December 27, 2009 Radioactive wild dog Hahahah COD4 definetly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mark247 39 Report post Posted January 8, 2010 Just got back from the Crimea. We went to Sevastopol which is the home of the Russian Black Sea Navy fleet. Pretty damn interesting city, heaps of stuff to look at. We met some random girls in town, we have discovered the best pick up line in the World is "Do you speak English? Where am I?" They were kind enough to meet us the next day, take us to Balaclava to show us the old underground Russian submarine base.. and then they also took us nightclubbing. Good times. Here's some pics. These photos arent in any order.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
