Saturday, 5 January 2013

Lviv II

My new hostel in Lviv was small but full of young travellers so it made socializing easy. I took it easy the first day and just went for some dinner with Anne, a peace corps volunteer from Tennessee. She lives in a rural village in central Ukraine and doesn't even have running water! I can't even imagine! I slept great that night and got up in time to do the free walking tour. We walked around the old town and saw many, many churches. There wasn't much of a history lesson on Lviv but I did learn that the first time they became an independent state (without another country ruling them) was in 1991. Crazy. A few of us went for an early dinner to a place pronounced Krievka. It is set up like an old army barracks, it's even underground, and serves the traditional food soldiers would have eaten. You need to say a password to get in at the door. The place is always lined up but we were lucky not to have to wait long. The food was delicious and we had a small band serenade us during our meal. It was very lively. Afterwards we went for dessert before heading back to the hostel.

My last day in Lviv was the real adventure. It took 2 hours at the post office to send a package home. Thankfully Anne was there to translate or I'd still be at the post office. After I carefully packed the box I was given, they took it all out and laid it on the counter to inspect. How embarrassing! At least it wasn't anything personal! They had to inventory each item and literally counted each piece of paper and free map that I was sending home. I was so frustrated by the end I was ready to leave it! Thankfully it was cheap and is now out of my backpack! I can't believe how the Ukrainian people do things sometimes! And either do they, but nothing changes!

Aw well! Off to Istanbul!

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