This is just an intermediary short blog to let you know what has happened to us. Yes, our itinerary says we were in Odesa until this morning and we do have a partial blog written about our visit to that fascinating city. But we were unable to post it as we lost our Internet connection last night and were unable to finish and upload it before we left for Kamanyets-Podolsky early this morning.
Now we're in K-P, but instead of the trip taking about 8 hours by car, it took us almost 11 hours with pit stops and a lunch break, so we just arrived this evening about 21h00. The trip was very long, although comfortable in an air conditioned van driven by a driver, but we arrived very very late.
Unfortunately, it is a long, and not so interesting, story about how the roads are terrible, it rained, we got lost and had to backtrack due to bad directions about a closed bridge, etc. etc. Thus we lost over 2 hours of precious time today. By the time we got into our hotel room (small but clean and very well equipped), grabbed some dinner in the dining room, and got ready for bed it was late. In fact, too late for me to even be writing this.
So, it's time to get some sleep as we need to be up tomorrow morning by 7:30 pm, have breakfast and be out the door by 9:00 am in order to see something of Kamanyets-Podolsky before we hit the road again.
No time for photos, but just a big good night to you all. Of course, you will probably not read this until tomorrow, but let's just blame that on the 7 hour time difference.
Exhausted but having a good time!
Marla, Yuri, and Lev
Now we're in K-P, but instead of the trip taking about 8 hours by car, it took us almost 11 hours with pit stops and a lunch break, so we just arrived this evening about 21h00. The trip was very long, although comfortable in an air conditioned van driven by a driver, but we arrived very very late.
Unfortunately, it is a long, and not so interesting, story about how the roads are terrible, it rained, we got lost and had to backtrack due to bad directions about a closed bridge, etc. etc. Thus we lost over 2 hours of precious time today. By the time we got into our hotel room (small but clean and very well equipped), grabbed some dinner in the dining room, and got ready for bed it was late. In fact, too late for me to even be writing this.
So, it's time to get some sleep as we need to be up tomorrow morning by 7:30 pm, have breakfast and be out the door by 9:00 am in order to see something of Kamanyets-Podolsky before we hit the road again.
No time for photos, but just a big good night to you all. Of course, you will probably not read this until tomorrow, but let's just blame that on the 7 hour time difference.
Exhausted but having a good time!
Marla, Yuri, and Lev
Oy vey, and I'm the one that recommended (heck not "recommended" - insisted) that you take the care instead of the train. It's as Eva says when we are driving around Ukraine and invariably getting lost - "learn all about your country" (piznay sviy krai). ~hope that you enjoy Kamianetsk-Podilskyi and all of the countryside around there - quite historic, and starting to take shape as a tourist destination.
ReplyDeleteThat's okay Myron. We actually thank you for the advice. :) The drive was interminable (and expensive) BUT comfortable and we did get to see a lot of countryside that we might not have seen otherwise.;) Also, the train would have been hell with all our luggage! Next time we travel light; then we might not need the car and driver. In any case, we enjoyed the sites and are now in L'viv. Another gorgeous city!
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