Early autumn sunrise in Lviv, Western Ukraine

Tuesday, 9th September 2008
A fun start to the day was had as our train rolled in to Lviv station bang on time at 6.32am, but our transfer driver couldn’t be bothered to drag his scraggy carcase out of bed to deliver us to the Hotel Dnister. Forty minutes of waiting around in the chill morning air in just shorts and t-shirts was enough to prompt us to the decision of procuring a taxi and despatching ourselves to our lodgings under our own steam.

With a less than satisfactory start to the morning already under our belt, not being able to check in to the Dnister until 12 noon simply compounded the problem, and these events conspired with our tiredness to imbue the day with a disagreeable cast that proved irksome to shake. Wandering around in the cold morning light like homeless urchins was doing little to improve our humour, so we retreated once again to the hotel to sustain ourselves with a 60 hryvnia breakfast. We managed to spin this out for an hour, and then attacked the city again with renewed vigour and warmer sunshine.

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