After over 2000 miles, we are now in Ukraine, the place we have been making for. But that doesn't mean that we're ready to stop yet - the country is vast and there is a lot we want to see. At the moment we are in Lviv, a beautiful city with lots of old, elegant buildings. The place we are staying in is called Hotel George, and it's pink. Naturally, this has prompted a stream of Rainbow impressions. The hotel is a huge regency building, with a distinct air of faded grandeur - sweeping staircases, grand entrances, and elaborately decorated, but the rooms aren't expensive or fancy, so we are happy. (Though there is a doorman who put our bikes inside and then tried to charge us 12 dollars (!?) for 'parking' so we took them
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