Some bad news today here in Ukraine, as from the 1st July 2009 beer will be going up by 30% and drinking on the streets will become illegal!!!!!!

How will I cope I hear you ask?

Well "luckily" for me I am returning home to sunny England on 29th June, thus missing out on paying these extortionate prices for beer!

So what have I been doing?

Well after the longest coach journey in the history of man (10 hours) we arrived in Crimea at 7am. Luckily I had managed to sleep on the coach since it was packed full of six people. I think that's an average 20 seats each at least!

So like the typical Brit I am I thought to myself "Wow sun, beach, mountains, beer, (sexy Ukrainian and Russian girls in bikini's), sun again" and so headed quickly down to the beach after checking in to our very seedy hotel thingy (here's a pic of our beds)...

Our beds in Crimea

Baring in mind the whole excursion was 35 pounds each for a few days in Crimea (including travel) we didn't complain. In fact, we spend as little time in the room as possible (except for obvious necessities). Ok to continue my story, we arrived at 7am and headed on to the beach. By 9am I had become rather baked alive! Why oh why did I buy Factor 15?? Doh! Although here I am in the sea - the memory makes it all worth while...

Sea Kev

So here I am sitting in the cyber cafe back in the city with my body rather sore! Every movement is rubbing the red flaming skin that covers my back and left side of my body! Unlike the very accomplished sunbathing Masters that were in Crimea (in fact they stood there in various strange poses making sure every last part of their body was of an even brown colour), I some how managed to burn just one whole side of my body and now look like I have a large white zip across my right side. A very strange look indeed - rather unhuman like.

And finally, I'd like to apologise for my writing mistakes! Apart from the fact I seem to have forgotten English, this PC underlines everything in red (because obviously I'm not typing things in Russian) and so it's making me confused about how to spell things. Funny how the brain works hey!

Hope all is well in Blogland?

I'm offski to bake alive once more...