It's a very Russian thing to do to vacation in Crimea (southern Ukrainian peninsula hanging out into the Black Sea), and so for two weeks in July, that's where I was.








My ability to not line up the horizon is really embarrassingly evident when I photography the sea.












The southern coast is dotted with a bunch of little towns that kind of blend into one another along the edges. Work is hard to find, and most people make money by renting their houses to tourists during the summer. During my time there, I did the following things:
- swam in the sea (with little jellyfish!)
- met a lot of new family
- reluctantly ventured out in the heat of the day to go along on excursions to sightseeing places
- got sunburned
- got mosquito-bitten (no AC = windows open & no screens = bugs)
- ate figs off the tree
and it was thoroughly good.




So this shit is called The Swallow's Nest. I misheard and thought it was called Swallow on the Nest for almost the entirety of my trip. The two sound similar in Russian.






I think they were planning to set up a zipline-type thing from this platform down to the castle.