This morning my first thing after getting up and comfortably (in 1 hour) consuming my breakfast (included in the 7/euro hostel), i directly went to the train station, i wanted to get ticket to Kiev as soon as possible. As tram#1 is not running, the only way to do this (apart from walking, what i did on the way back) is the Marshrutka. Here it costs 2 hrivnya, maybe around 0.20 e.
It took hell long (90 mins) to buy these two tickets, so i just share you some "useful" information about Lviv railway station: the cassa-s marked as "international" don't sell any kind of tickets, but they speak english and let u know where to go if u want domestic ticket (like Lviv/Kiev) and where to go for international (to Moscow e.g.). The cassas marked with a big "I" don't speak english and don't sell any tickets, that's why no one is going there ...
All other cassas are either international or domestic, but it'n not written anywhere which one is which.
The Lviv Kiev was cheaper, the Kiev Moscow was much more exspensive then i expected, all together it's ok that i paid 60 euros for all this (10+50).
Some trains were fully booked, so my schedule changes a bit: tomorrow morning i go to Kiev (arrival at 13h), and the day after tomorrow afternoon i go to Moscow (arrival 6am). The problematic is more the second, i have to get up at 6 coz the train arrives, but anyway, it's ok. At least i could get this.
So Lviv sightseeing was restricted to today, it's a really beautiful town with a hill (lookout points) and many nice buildings, incl. both catholic and orthodox relegious ones. Everything is in walking distance from the hostel (except the train station, but i guess there won't be so many marshrutkas early morning so i count with walking tomorrow (40 mins).
Generally the town is not as undeveloped as the Charpathians area where cars younger then 20 years and road with asphalt had stgh common: they both don't exist there. Here the roads were once covered by asphalt or stones, and there are still remainers of it, and there are also huge black cars going on it. Businesses are very nature-friendly: they don't waste a lot of paper with paper work :)
But there are a lot of tourists, and the city center is very lively and nice. It was good to spend a day here.
So next tomorrow Kiev.
