Best Eastern Eney Hotel Lviv

... they dominate the kiosks, too. There are some anomalies, too, like the ‘chai mate’ typically available in Mideast restaurants. Huh? Immigrants from Syrian Patagonia? But mostly there are hot dogs, written in Cyrillic, pronounced the same. It’s not so much that I’m doing research after my joke about Polish sausages being called ‘Russians’ in South Africa, as that there’s not much else to eat ...

... not sure if i will be going with Charlene or not or if i will make my own way elsewhere, thats to be decided... I am going to add some pictures of Lviv and of Zolochiv Castle. What a day! Oh, i also understand now why Ukrainians moved out west in canada, their country side is much like the prairies its just a little more hilly! Ukraine is Beautiful. You truly realise how to appreciate life when people live with so little and yet are so happy and so giving.

... impossible quandry. I mean if the train does not fit on the tracks what else can you do. Its not like its possible to have another train waiting on the other tracks, is it!!!!!!!!! So after another sleeper train it has become quite clear that the one thing you will find impossible to do is in fact sleep! So lviv. The unpolished gem as the lonely planet puts it, I guess thats one way of descibing it. To be fair this ...

... 1st part of the day. "Red Bum" is a democratic pub downtown. +I have to look up for the adress+. nice interior, 2 floors, cheap beer. "Plitka" is a cafe-pub located in the basement. nice interior, an agressive cat named Stepashka. I drank georgian wine there, because we cannot have it in Russia, the wine was good, but I hope something was mixed in the menu, the price was not for 100gr, but for 50gr, so we had to pay twice more :/

... on who greets you in perfect English and makes the standard border guard enquiries about your onward travel such as one would find anywhere in the world. Anywhere meaning places where the main aim isn't grey market commerce. The border guards have their successes, as evidenced by male youths running back up the queue trying to sell their overlimit component, pack by pack, to people in the queue who can then tape a surplus pack or two to their legs. At least this was logical. Along ...

... it's become in recent years the biggest stronghold of Ukrainian nationalism. Russian is still spoken here (if slightly begrudgingly), but the vast majority of the population uses Ukrainian in their everyday affairs and is quite happy to do so. It's a beautiful place, with large spaces of greenery and a vast, almost completely intact historic center. Little destruction befell it in World War II and the Soviets were fortunately quite gentle in regards to modern "modifications ...

After the ordeal getting across the border from Poland, I felt a bit better a couple days later when a Dutch backpacker came in, having done the exact same thing as me but he had waited three hours instead of two before someone had pushed him to the front of his line. By the time I got into the hostel, at a little past 12:30am, with the one hour time change taken into consideration, the trip from Krakow ended up taking just over 8 hours...similar to ...

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8 November: Our first day in L'viv was beautiful. Blue skies, sunshine and really nice temperatures. Well, when we got in at 7:20AM it was 1C and we waited til 8 for the international advanced ticket office to open (kiosk 20, right most door at platform 1, up the stairs on the right). They claimed not to have any trains from L'viv to Brasov (though online searches claim otherwise) so we've ended up with tickets to Buzau. Not sure what we'll see or do there other than attempt to ...

... guess Lvivians hope their city can become "the next Krakow" and hope tourism can eventually brings in tons of money like what it does to Krakow (Krakow's 100 plus youth hostels must have employed many college students in the summer). Maybe renovating the City Hall and re-paving the Square is their first step to prepare this city for the upcoming tourist invasion. With Ukraine now relaxes its visa policy and more people come to this country, they know finally, their time will come.