Galitska Street Apartment Lviv

... I see illegal Mexican’s coming across the border in. It is rusty, dented, has benches (not seats) that are not full bolted to the floor and move with the turns, windows that have curtains covering up all but the front windshield. Only 1 other passenger is in the bus. We are off with 10 minutes. Again, a vehicle that does not understand the nature of shock absorbers. I was told that from Monica that the fee was 25 Lei but ...

... sights (at least this is what
we deduced from the Ukrainian they spoke).




We ventured past the opera house where a large truck was spraying water
on the square. To our amusement the water trunk would honk at people in
its ways and then proceed full speed ahead towards its victims. Further
down the street we stopped for breakfast at a Viennese cafe. Lviv at
one time was part of the Hapsburg empire and still retains a ...

... at his grave. One last thing I must say about Ukraine is the beautiful people. Specifically the beautiful women. Not sure what it is, but the mix of heritage and blood in this part of the world has created some fantastic looking women. The men not so much (no offense to any guys of Ukrainian background who may end up reading this). They are mostly just average looking but the Ukrainian women are a step above a lot of nations in looks. A friend of the girls who run the ...

... and pretty soon I moved down to be the sole occupant of row one, aware of twenty pairs of ever judging, ever disdaining eyes in my back. To pair with the heat, in the main room previously described is an ice plunge pool. Handy hint for future travellers: screaming like a ten year old girl on the initial plunge attracts unwelcomed attention. I was with a Dutchman, Marek, and I think we were both of the view the locals should suspend judgment of our girliness: at least for the ...

... Uki wedding, but this ****ed me off as I was unable to get any good shots, and these churches were out there !!! They were simply amazing, so we decided to leave them and come back tomorrow, that was after we had seen 48 weddings !!! As evening drew, it was opera time. I hadn't been since Aida in 1998 and I was looking forward to it. The inside was great, tiny compared to the outside, but our seats were amazing. I didn't really get ...

... only other person in my cabin was a Ukrainian girl named Svetlana who had been visiting her family in the East (right by the border) and was on her back to Latvia where she and her Swedish husband live with their son. She spoke pretty good English and was very eager to practice it. She told me she tries to read one English book every month to keep it up. She said she had moved to Latvia when it was all the USSR and now needs to go the long way since ...

... Cmentarz jest przepiekny, ale jak na cmentarz przystalo, ma specyficzna atmosfere. Nasz bus odjezdzal okolo 16, wiec wrocilismy do mieszkania chlopcow dosc wczesnie. Zjedlismy pierogi na obiad i trzeba bylo niemal biec na dworzec autobusowy. Chlopcy wzieli nasze plecaki, a mysmy mialy tylko reklamowke z namiotem, z jedzeniem i nasze torebki. Po drodze na chodnikach byly ustawione slupki blokujace wjazd samochodow. Byly dosc ostro zakonczone, wiec gdy zahaczylam o 1 z ...

... I didn't think twice about agreeing to meet them. Well, neither of us was to know what this person would be like. Kevin from Los Angeles met us at the eatery, and from the moment he sat at our table I got a bad feeling about him. Over the course of the next hour or two, he pretended to know more about Ukraine than our kind host, while at the same time insulting her, insulting me, and making it perfectly clear that the Ukrainian women sitting at nearby tables were nothing more ...

... the very end of the train. We got to watch them attach it this time. For the night we had the cabin to ourselves. We weren't sure what time we'd be crossing the border but we managed to actually get a full nights sleep. Around 8AM we hit the border patrol, it was simple. The Romanian immigration people all spoke some English, that was very surprising for us. It was particularly amusing later when we got off the train because the ticket lady was trying to let us know our stop ...

... reminds me a bit of Krakow but take away the tourists and ugly advertising everywhere. The city it packed with old italian renaissance style and baroque buildings. I pretty much spent the entire day just walking around and enjoying the architecture. I even was able to hire a student guide for $10/hour to give me the low-down on things here. Anyway enough jabber, for the pictures should be much more entertaining!