I'm Starting to Like this Town

SIMFEROPOL: Blogging last night I might have left the impression that I wasn't a fan of Simferopol, I've changed my mind. It's not a city that announces it's charm but when it does reveal it, it really does make you smile. There are no tourist sites here, though they do have an amazing Uzbek restaurant but the city has a fantastic vibrancy. Four of the central streets are blocked off to pedestrians and teenagers mill about, while other people shop in various malls hidden beneath the main roads. And last night I had to run a gauntlet of drunk, celebrating football fans and wild dogs scavenging for food in the market to get some water and cigarettes. Brilliant.