Life on Board / Internet
Viking claims it has internet available on its ships and guess what? They do. And on the Lomonosv it was generally pretty good. Expectedly, when between the ports further away from each other, internet faded and vanished (such as the long haul across open water from Yalta to Kherson). But while in port, and during much of the cruising on the Dnieper River, the signal and strong.
Modern meets Ancient outside Monastery of the Caves
Useful hints: What slows the internet down is the number of users and increasingly most people are packing computers when traveling. So if you want to log on and download stuff, do it while everyone else is at dinner, off on tours or in the middle of the night, otherwise you may get very frustrated. The middle of the night is really the best. Several times I was up at 1 a.m. and the internet at that hour was super fast presumably because no one else was using it.
Photograph: Modern technology meets ancient artifacts outside a museum in Kiev on August 14, 2010
