Blogs from Lviv, Ukraine, Europe - page 2

Kiev and Lviv, Ukraine Both are worth a visit, we're glad to have been here. Here's a summary of my feelings about the two cities after having visited St Petersburg and Moscow........very subjective after only a few days in all above. Kiev is huge... the drive to the airport is testimony to that. There are lots of new giant apartment blocks just out of the centre, then older housing stock once you're 30 minutes further on as the suburbs continue ...... until you hit a very African feeling transport hub on the edge of town ...... Kharkivska. It has a great buzz about it, as if you could catch a bus to anywhere from there, but no one would be able to tell you which bus stop to wait at. Then there's a motorway through green ... read more

We ordered taxis via hotel reception for both ends of our trip to Lviv. As a result we're less 'run-raggedd', as they say in our part of the country, and prices are so low here we kept within budget.... 2016 Lviv is a café society.... there's loads of people about, young and old, all chilling, drinking coffee, molten chocolate, or a beer or two. It feels poles apart from Kiev... in the capital it's all of a rush down in the metro, honking traffic and big, big buildings. Here it's meandering folk, trams and smaller scale 19C buildings, in a grid of straight streets around the main Town Hall Square. As we paced out the Lonely Planet suggested walk of Lviv we realised that we're almost sated with city tourism after 2.5 weeks...... So we sat ... read more

The morning after the day trip with Ania's dad, Ania, Daddy, Ania's, dad,and I went drove to Lviv. Ukraine was my 66th country. The drive was about 1.5 hours and it was not far to the border. The border did not take too long, but the drive from the border to the Lviv was about 1 hour. Once we got to Lviv, we checked in to our great hotel (Atlas Deluxe Hotel) We had the presidential suite was really big and nice. After check-in to our hotel we started walking around the city. We went into a restaurant (Dim Legend ). It was really cool because it had 5 stories and different themes on each floor. On the roof there was a car that we went into and took pics. Ania's dad did not want to ... read more

Thursday July 23, 2015 – I woke up sometime around 4am when the woman on the train with me left to go to the bathroom. She couldn’t unlock the door so she had to wake up her son to help. They were quiet, but I am a light sleeper. An hour later I got up to go, always afraid that soon everyone will be and the line will be enormous and I’ll never get in before the train stops. But it turns out that was never the case on this train. The train arrived at 6:30am and I didn’t have anywhere to go. This is a problem I did not anticipate when booking an apartment, instead of a hostel. In a hostel, you can just go and sit and wait or drop your bag off when ... read more

I consider Lviv to be the most beautiful city in Ukraine that reflects the true Europenean approach to minor details in every corner of its old and cozy streets where one can find the spirit of past times and the feeling of endless freedom. It is my 10th visit to Lviv with the target of revealing something new and unknown. For thouse searching some unhidden places this is my story-tour plan. 1. The city of Lions gastro tour – there are plenty of restaurants but my last visit has shown that most of well-known restaurants (I do not want to mention them) switched to purely touristic objects and lost this customized approach in cuisine. Searching something new “from heart and with soul”, I found some “warm” cafe “Shtuka” (Kotlyarevskogo Str.8), that represents the austro-hungrian times and ... read more