VIENNA: 'Love home,' it says on the wall of the Titkovs' cozy flat in Vienna. The poster has a particular poignancy for the Ukrainian family who were forced to flee their home in Irpin in the suburbs of Kyiv nearly a year ago. 'I have mixed feelings,' admitted Iryna Titkova, a sunny former English teacher
VIENNA:"Love home," it says on the wall of the Titkovs' cozy flat in Vienna. The poster has a particular poignancy for the Ukrainian family who were forced to flee their home in Irpin in the suburbs of Kyiv nearly a year ago."We have food, we have a warm apartment, we have the whole family here... and we have a certain amount of money which we earned and saved."The family have just moved into a pretty two-bedroom apartment.
The Titkovs were at first put up by friends of friends close to Vienna's Saint Stephen's Cathedral before they found their own place half an hour from the centre of the city. Language courses are also free, and Iryna and Valerii go to intensive German classes three times a week. It is not"the job of my dreams", but the sporty 44-year-old is hoping to get official authorisation to be able to work as a physio in Austria in the next few months. Nor has he given up on being a football coach again, his other passion that he had to leave behind.Desperate to start earning as soon as she arrived, Iryna took a job working at a checkout. But the teacher is now working in a herbalist shop and loving it."It's a peaceful place, with good karma," she smiled.
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