Jonathan Campion
Welcome to my Diary!
I am a British writer, translator, editor, teacher and photographer, currently working in Ukraine. My diary is a collection of pictures and short stories about the people and places which have captured my imagination.
I hope you'll enjoy them...
Jon, 17.9.07.
My International Friendship Shorts
By JonathanCampion on 18-Jul-08 12:20. Comments (0)
The beach is in a lovely setting, beside a river the same colour as my recently unwrapped swimming trunks and with a view of the Lavra monastery at the other side. The sticky sand is far from tropical, but the people of Kyiv travel to it en masse at weekends, to escape the strains of the city without having to leave it altogether...Take A Sad Song, And Make It Better
By JonathanCampion on 03-Jul-08 16:11. Comments (0)
As we waited for him to appear, black and white Beatles clips were shown on large screens at either side of the stage. The crowd jumped up and down to keep warm, in time with "A Hard Day's Night" fused with the purposeful pattering of rain onto umbrellas...Cool But True
By JonathanCampion on 13-Jun-08 19:00. Comments (0)
It felt as though I had been away for two months, not two weeks, such had Kyiv changed while I was at home...
From Hell on Earth to the Moon of Dreams
By JonathanCampion on 26-May-08 20:43. Comments (0)
As soon as it became light after 6 in the evenings there was no need to take the metro home straight after work. Instead I met Ana on Khreshchatik (between the ice cream stall and the breakdancers) and we walked up the hill from Besarrabskii market - past the statue of Lenin - to sit on the benches in Taras Shevchenko park...
Confessions of a Pignapper
By JonathanCampion on 03-Apr-08 12:35. Comments (0)
Further into the province, little stone bus stops with colourful, Communist-era mosaics appear every couple of kilometres. Their names conjure up images of Cossacks, the settlements which they serve hidden beyond the mist.
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