bVacations/b used to last anywhere from 1 month to 2 or 3, and what you'd do is, usually, unless traveling with a guided tour (putevka), you'd get to a town, and take gander around the neighborhoods, ask around, and see who's renting rooms, ... So, when I was 6, we went to bGenichesk/b, a small town on the Azov Sea in western Ukraine. We stayed in one of those typical garden shantytowns. And as a good mother-slash-planner, my mom sent ahead supplies, including but not limited ...
