After I got a car in 2022, I made the vast majority of my trips in it. The war in Ukraine, which left us without air transport, contributed significantly to this.
When I was visiting Ivano-Frankivsk in early spring 2023, after the death of someone close to me… A friend wrote to me. After the war began, they fled from Kyiv to Spain and invited me to stay with them for a week, to take my mind off things and enjoy the warmth.
This year I did not plan to attend Euro 2012. Or rather, there was a desire to watch the main soccer event in Europe, but when tickets were just starting to be sold by pre-order, the organizers made a mad rush, announcing that there would not be enough tickets for everyone, and they would be drawn by lot among all those who applied for them. As a result, millions of people from all over the world flocked to the UEFA website to order tickets for themselves and their wives, moms, dads, grandmothers and girlfriends, for the matches they wanted and the ones they didn’t give a damn about. So, in a few days the tickets were booked, a drawing was held, and most of the tickets were won by people who didn’t need them anymore. They won 5-6 tickets in different classes for one match. They started to be given away, and sometimes they were simply “dumped” – they didn’t pay for the reservation and forgot about them.