L'viv, Ukraine

So our trip to Ukraine started with scowling border guards snatching our passports from our hands at 5 in the morning, then disappearing with them for about a half hour.  They were eventually returned, however, and our three-hour border crossing soon came to an end.

Upon arriving in L'viv, I was struck by a horrible stomach bug.  So I spent most of Friday laying, wandering slowly, and then laying some more.

L'viv is also, apparently, the town that you can never leave.  The trains out today?  All sold out.  The night bus?  Also sold out.  So in a few hours we will take a bus that leaves at noon and takes nine hours to arrive to Kiev.  Whoo.

As for L'viv itself, it's a beautiful little town, full of funny art-deco and art-nouveau buildings.  And tons of churches.  Yesterday, being a Saturday in August, the town was entirely taken over by weddings.  We saw, seriously, dozens and dozens of bridal parties.  For lunch we ate cheese and then chocolate fondue.  And then did some more wandering, through parks and up cobbled streets.