Hotel Leopolis Lviv

We caught a fancy overnight train to Lviv, Ukraine, our only stop in the country, but certainly a memorable one! Lviv was quite unlike any of the cities we'd visited on our trip, feeling much more authentic, and much less touristed. The pace felt quite slow, and the age of the buildings could certainly be felt. The cyrillic alphabet surrounded us once again, and it was neat to explore some of the small markets, and ...

... are going to head down south to Odesa, but not really sure, Odesa is on black sea and looks like an interesting place to visit, apparently tho its great in the summer because of all the beaches! Anyways, i've gotta get ready, check out and find some drugs! Then its breakfast and off on a bus to find some little town! ha ha always an adventure!

I arrived in Lviv on Saturday at about 5:00. I took the night train to Lviv from Krakow. The train was a new experience. I had a bed so it bed the trip go by a lot faster. I managed to make thru customs without any problems. Keep in mind that I have no fricken idea what people are telling me. The only thing i have to go on is the non-verbal language. I think I watched too many Mafia movies as a child. I could have sworn the guy, on the lower bed, was a big ...

... I had assumed I was in second class, only to enter a cabin with just two bunks, deep red velvet fittings and matching tablecloth, an old bankers lamp and old world charm in every nook. $20 please. Lviv, you will recall, was also home to the World's Greatest Biscuit Lady. We duly returned and expanded our sampling rate. These are all essential winter warming carbs to see me through hibernation. Winter has set in. The snow barrels down and the odd ...

... The queues are dense, surging yet somehow immobile, and all the people management devices and barriers are straight from a cattleyard. There were periodic explosions of shouting as police waded into rulebreakers, an aggressive interjection followed every time by a wave of laughter from the crowd. These people, collectively, are not mere random travellers in a throng: they are each others' co-workers. As the queue thickened near the final entry hurdle into Poland, large hands ...

... for its size - about 700,000. I'd like to be able to spend more time here overall, but I've unfortunately been limited to about a day and half of sightseeing. My Belarusian visa starts tomorrow and, what with my prebooked hotels and a strict 5-day window for visiting, I have to head out of town tonight on a Minsk-bound train. I have, however, managed to take in a good chunk of the city in the scrunched amount of time available. Some people say you need three or four days to do ...

... create a lot of similarities. The only real difference was the lack of tourists compared to Krakow. Only in the last two years have the borders opened up to Visa-less entry for westerners following the orange revolution. Because the old town area has not been destroyed and the city lacks major tourist infrastructure, the best part of visiting was just walking around the city enjoying the sights and sounds. There is only one full-time hostel in the ...

... 1074; - он есть всегд 72;. Можно спори 90;ь о том, сущес 90;вует ли у город 72; своя энерг 77;тика. Я зн ...

... and had a nice welcome by the three guys staying there already. our hostel (backpackers L'viv) is newly opened and so we learned of it's water situation. There is only water from 6-9AM and 18-21. Lovely. This means no toilet, sink, cooking, laundry, shower... Lucky us as well that we have to stay a day longer than intended because the train only leaves every 1st, 4th, 6th day. We got no sleep on the train, there were quite a few drunks, one of which made a nuisance of himself ...

... German Railway/Deutsch Bahn, www.bahn.de). I knew I might need to change train at Chernivtsi, to transfer to a train traveling from Moscow to Sofia (which traverses eastern part of Romania, including Suceava and Bucharest). What I did not realize was, how hard it is just to inquire train information in Ukraine, let alone buying the ticket I wanted! No, this is not Poland, or even the Baltics, where many people in hospitality ...