This is the beautiful city of Chernivtsi, situated in the South West of the Ukraine, and only a 30 min drive to the Romanian border, which also would have doubled as my escape route, should the situation in the East of the country take a turn for the worst whilst i was there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernivtsi
This city is a 8 hour "bus" journey, or a 13-14 train journey. I quite fancy the train journey next time, as it is through the day time, where as the bus leaves Kiev at 10pm and arrives in Chernivtsi at 6am, and vice versa with the same timings for the return journey back to Kie