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Kiev Airport - Flowers
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Posted by: Hostile_hostage

I was just wondering if their were shops ( especially a florist ) at Kiev airport.

Posted by: Meico

Don't waste your time looking for flower shops in Kiev airport. If you want to impress the lady, bring her flowers from your home country.

I did this on both trips. Put the flowers in a double plastic bag that is easy to carry. Wrap the roots with napkins or small towel for moisture. Use Ice instead of water.

You'll think it's alot of trouble at times but the end results are tremendous. As a tip, carnations travel better than roses. If it worked from Texas to Kiev through three airports and three different planes,,,UK to Kiev will be a walk in the park.

Posted by: Hostile_hostage

Meico - many thanks for the advice !!

Posted by: zaniac

I didn't recall seeing a florist on my way arrival to Borispol airport. In fact I think it had very little in the way of shops, if I remember. I'll take more of a look on my next trip. However I didn't really spend any time there once I arrived. I don't think Borispol airport had a big arrivals area either from what I remember.

I'll never forget the buzz of arriving in unknown (for me) eastern european airport, sorting out the taxi driver and heading for his car. The excitement, the nerves, the unknown all mixed together, wow!

Posted by: Irish Lad

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Originally Posted by zaniac

I'll never forget the buzz of arriving in unknown (for me) eastern european airport, sorting out the taxi driver and heading for his car. The excitement, the nerves, the unknown all mixed together, wow!

Was a bit like that for me an all except i became extremly pissed off when i discovered that my luggage was in fact still in Amsterdam and not Moscow,(damn KLM in fairness they did give me a voucher as way of an apology)

Sheremetyevo has got to be the worst International Airport ive ever been in though really dull and grey,Soviet style by the looks of it,nicest person i met in Moscow was my driver Slava who was a real gent the rest i came across bar one or two were ignorant and sourfaced.

Posted by: deccie

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Originally Posted by Meico

Don't waste your time looking for flower shops in Kiev airport. If you want to impress the lady, bring her flowers from your home country.

I did this on both trips. Put the flowers in a double plastic bag that is easy to carry. Wrap the roots with napkins or small towel for moisture. Use Ice instead of water.

You'll think it's alot of trouble at times but the end results are tremendous. As a tip, carnations travel better than roses. If it worked from Texas to Kiev through three airports and three different planes,,,UK to Kiev will be a walk in the park.

I'm bamboozled.. What about quarantine? Or do you think your home flowers are immune to insects/fungus/bacteria or something.
Seriously, I would actively discourage this practice.

Posted by: jpierce55

You are not permitted to transport flowers from the U.S., I don't know about European nations. Borispol had shops I did not look at. The airport seemed fairly simple and I doubt flowers are there. You won't have a hard time finding flowers someplace else (maybe now since it is winter).

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

Go Deccie, in true Aussie style tell it how it is.

Posted by: deccie

All jokes aside this is quite serious. Air travel gives people the capacity to take indigenous plant and animal material from a place where they are quite easily controlled by other life to places where they do not belong.

Perhaps being an Australian I'm more sensitive to this because as an island we simply don't have a lot of the worst diseases in Europe that affect both livestock and animals. We have no foot and mouth disease, we have no BSE (Mad Cow).
Bear in mind that by taking plant material from your own garden to another country you could end up potentially wipe out the cut flower market in that country if not worse.

Don't think it doesn't happen because it does. Just one issue that has decimated aquatic life was the practice of ships to dump ballast water in harbour. The result has been the transportation of some of the worst marine pests all over the world. All for the sake of expediency.

So, before taking any plant or animal material from one country to another please make sure there is no chance YOU could be the cause of the next outbreak of some exotic disease in a country that can't cope with it.

This also applies to your shoes if you are planning on going to or from a rural area. Wash them and preferably disinfect them too.

Posted by: zaniac

Hostile_hostage - I don't think it would be hard to find a florist in or near the centre of Kiev. I remember on a saturday, in the food market facing the TGI Friday's establishment (at the end of K-street) there was a florist selling many plants and flowers. Is your lady meeting you at the airport? If not, I'm sure a taxi driver at the airport could take you to one if you ask.

Irish Lad - After reading stories of KLM losing luggage etc, I think someone would have to pay me to fly with them. KLM and Monarch are on my non-fly with list

Posted by: Jill

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I remember on a saturday, in the food market facing the TGI Friday's establishment (at the end of K-street) there was a florist selling many plants and flowers

Besarabskyy is the name. Actually I think you can get flowers there 24/7

Posted by: zaniac

I remember going through and a youngish lady stopped me, to see if I wanted to buy flowers. When I said "no, sorry!" she looked a bit dissappointed. I still feel a little sorry to this day. I just loved it inside though. I saw caviar for the first time and I thought it was strawberry jam, lol

Posted by: Irish Lad

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Originally Posted by zaniac

Irish Lad - After reading stories of KLM losing luggage etc, I think someone would have to pay me to fly with them. KLM and Monarch are on my non-fly with list

Im willing to give them another chance as the flight itself wasn't bad at all compared to some airlines (Ryanair the worlds worst airline

) Etihad are the best airline ive flown with,a pleasure indeed

Posted by: Hostile_hostage

Perhaps the easiest solution is to bring some 'dried' flowers. I guess the bonus being that they will last long after i have gone. They could even do for the boquet on our wedding day. Who said i was tight ? lol

Posted by: zaniac

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Originally Posted by Hostile_hostage

Perhaps the easiest solution is to bring some 'dried' flowers. I guess the bonus being that they will last long after i have gone. They could even do for the boquet on our wedding day. Who said i was tight ? lol

no comment!

Posted by: Hostile_hostage

Hey Zaniac you're only sorry you didn't think of it first lol

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

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Originally Posted by deccie

Don't think it doesn't happen because it does. Just one issue that has decimated aquatic life was the practice of ships to dump ballast water in harbour. The result has been the transportation of some of the worst marine pests all over the world. All for the sake of expediency.

Paterson's Curse, or Salvation Jane if you are a bee keeper, is another example of this. The purple terror has decimated approximately 10% of Australian grazing land and this is when you dont have alot to begin with.

The cain bettle is another although the cain toad has got them under some control. The problem now is the cain toad that was put in one small part of Queensland now covers about 40% of the mainland. Where there is warmish water they will easily go. Now with global warming and the water warming up even more they have more they can get into without suffereing any problems. Not only this they poison native flora and fauna, and oneday probably a child.

The point here is BE CAREFUL.

Posted by: ConnerVT

A few thoughts from someone who has passed through the airport in Moscow a few times:

1> Buying flowers at the airport is too late -- If a woman is going to meet you at the airport, she will be waiting for you to come out of Customs (and probably watching you around/through the glass partitions and doors. Any flowers you might buy are in the airport lobby, past her.

2> I once picked up 15 tulips in the Amsterdam airport while waiting for a connecting flight. No one said a thing about transporting flowers internationally (but they WERE a pain in the a$$ to deal with).

3> On other Russian<-->Western Europe flights, I have seen people transporting large numbers of roses (bunches of several dozen) as carry on luggage. So regulations on this certainly are more relaxed than importing flowers/fruits/etc. into the US (or apparently Australia).

4> The easy answer? Small stuffed animals! Pocket sized ones are the best, as you don't need to hunt for them. They just 'magically' appear from inside your jacket, and show her that you've been thinking about her. The keepsake lasts much longer than flowers, too.

Posted by: deccie

I've thought of an example that relates to this more directly.

A town not far from where I live had it's entire citrus crop wiped out due to a disease called citrus canker. Something like 300,000 trees.
The disease was beleived to have come from plant material imported from overseas.

Posted by: OzGuyLooking

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Originally Posted by deccie

I've thought of an example that relates to this more directly.

A town not far from where I live had it's entire citrus crop wiped out due to a disease called citrus canker. Something like 300,000 trees.
The disease was beleived to have come from plant material imported from overseas.

I think Canada got the blame for that one. It has destroyed so much and affected the industry in ways that will be felt for at least 10 to 15 years, and that is if it recovers.

Posted by: compucowboy

I'd have to agree with Deccie, even though I've seen lots of ozzies put their foot in their mouth...

Posted by: jpierce55

In the U.S. we have: Gypsy Moths, Killer Bees, Zebra Mussels, etc. A few years back I read of a fungus that was killing off many trees in the Appalachian's. No it does say no transportation of live plant matter. Going from Amsterdam, that may be different.

Posted by: zaniac

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Originally Posted by Hostile_hostage

Hey Zaniac you're only sorry you didn't think of it first lol

Dolt!!!

Posted by: mistermopar

I think Conner has the right idea with the stuffed animal.Lasts much longer and not such a pain to bring along.
Yes some countries do restrick the import of plants.

Randy