I didn’t want this blog to descend into “Look at the crazy stuff in Ukraine” but, after yesterdays revolution, and surrounding political spat it’s just too tempting. I blogged before about the crazy houses. Today we went for a walk down the Dneeper and saw just how far this can go:

http://www.trianon-palace.com/ 3 bedrooms, indoor pool, no garage but double marble parking approach. Try a Bablefish translation but the drawings of the proposed interiors is the best bit. The weirdest thing though is the location. I have no idea how much Trianon Palace would cost - several million dollars as a guess and for that money, It’s halfway down a knackered concrete road and only about 200m from the next McMansion.

That said, Bablefish is a really nice part of Ukraine - lots of islands and sandbanks along Dneeper south of Kyiv. I wonder how long it will be before the whole of the dneeper is lined with Trianon Palaces. The real Trianon Palace is now a Westin Hotel. If you stay, you should get a room overlooking Versailles - so the internet says anyway.