Alas several (and more) days of kitchen work to go, regardless of constructing and fixing the cupboards, there's the filling and painting of walls, painting of pipes, staining, varnishing, and fixing of skirting boards, fitting the new spashback and cooker hood, wiring in the new ceramic hob, oven, cooker hood, and new black nickel effect electrical fittings, fitting and plumbing in the new sink, sizing and fitting the new worktops and retiling the walls immediately above the worktops ..... and not neccessarily in that order.
And all this from a bloke that, supposedly, doesn't even own a house, this house. :)
You don't own that house Martin, you're obviously just a good renter.
"Unless I am much mistaken, she is more interested in a subsidized holiday, than in a real relationship with you. ". I concur. There are legitimate reasons why girl might not want to meet initially in her home town but wanting to meet in another country especially a popular vacation destination is a big pointer towards her being a pro-dater. But ... you could do a lot worse than spending a week or two with a nice girl in a nice place as your initiation into east-west dating, so long as your expectations are not for something more serious.
I'm not just a good renter, I'm a good guy all round, didn't you know? :)
It looks a bl00dy mess at the moment, I've got some of the cupboards constructed, todat has been a day of sanding down walls, painting and electrics, hence the loose wires apparent in the pic, a bit more painting to do later, by the morning it will be dry thus allowing me to start attaching cupboards to walls:
BIGREDMACHINE, good luck on your meeting in Ukraine. I visited the very beautiful city of Lvov with my fiancee last year and It was very enjoyable. Do try to get to Crimea and Kiev. Kiev offers the most entertainment every night. You should rent an apartment... however your girl can rent it 30% cheaper than you by simply making the arrangements herself. If you are in Kiev and alone one night go to visit the "river boat" on the river. You will be blown away by all the exceptionally beautiful local women that go there during the week nights to pick up some spending money.
What is ikea? I just checked the dictioanary and no such word!
The kitchen is coming along fine, it's actually beginning to look like a kitchen now, the majority of the base units are in, 2 out of 3 worktops cut to size and installed (bit of a delay awaiting the circular saw blade I ordered online), ceramic hob, oven, some electrical fittings installed and wired in (just don't tell anybody because under this EU bullsh1t it's illegal for us to electrically DIY anything more than, literally, a 3 pin plug ..... do I give a sh1t!), splashback attached to wall, tiling the walls more recently and have just online ordered some black grout to finish the tiling off, then I'll be painting the upper walls and then constructing and installing the wall units.
I think you'll find it in the same dictionary as bl00dy and sh1t :P
Funny thing, but I actually had a meeting there yesterday. A church in the next town is near to the local store, so we met there in the restaurant for the meatballs :)
As ladysearch recommended a video chat on Skype is a wonderful way to meet in cyber space where you both can interact prior to the actual meeting. I would highly recommend this before you travel to see her. If she doesn’t' have Skype then "all" of the internet cafes have it and it is cheap for them to use. Last time I was in Ukraine I spent 20 UAH for one hour at an internet cafe.
caveman... find anything eatable on your male partner to eat today?
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Zaporoshshye is a very clean beautiful small city been there many times. Used a palm program for interpreter. Very friendly people everywhere. This grandpa and girls found many private places to meet. the rest of the time your in a taxi. Send the taxi driver / interpreter to get her so there is no gossip in her building. Very Very unusual to want to meet in another country. there ( IS ) something very wrong here.
Most the time they will do anything to get away from the Male dominant Russian and Ukraine mentality and a first world Economy. I have had girls who were young enough to be my grandoughter want to get married. Just treat them like a lady with kindness and a little defference. show them you got stones and they will eat them up :-))