Comments on: Gomel, South-East Belarus – Yet more Lenin and low level radioactivity.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:47:12 +0000

I’m just wondering, to be able to afford visiting so many different places, where do you work?!

By: Carl Montgomery

Carl Montgomery — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:27:06 +0000

Marnie September 18, 2006 | 7:50 pm
I’m not sure it’s good table manners to test your food for radioactivity before you eat it.

Strangly it was actully the cook who was asking me to test her food. I was staying with a family for a few days and they produce a lot of their own food. The soil it came from was tested some years ago but she’s never tested it herself. It kind of put their mind at rest as well as mine

By: Carl Montgomery

Carl Montgomery — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:19:47 +0000

Matt September 18, 2006
Do have one more question, can you buy Vodka in a can?

I havnt come across any. I’m guessing they are the old blackmarket type.

By: Marnie

Marnie — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:50:57 +0000

I’m not sure it’s good table manners to test your food for radioactivity before you eat it. If you offend the cook there will be more in your food than a bit of radiation to worry about.

Take care.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:03:30 +0000

You are spot on Mr. Montgomery… in fact I was about to send a reply to your first posting and said to myself. “No Matt, have some patience…” Well I don’t think that there are any three-star restaurants trying to emulate belarus cooking. Do have one more question, can you buy Vodka in a can? I hade heard a rumor that you could in the old Soviet Union but wondered if it was really a myth.

Willing to bet the Geiger counter will get more of a workout when you get closer to the old reactors… Think of all the money you will be to save on birth control!