Internet! Long time no see!
Here we are in Kiev with 17 mins left on the internet cafe clock. We have so many stories since we left Vilnius, but so little time.
Krakow was lovely as we expected. Emu had been there several times before so I was happy to take the back seat and be tour guided around. We ate dumplings, looked at churches, wrote postcards and listened to tourist couples fight in outdoor cafes. All up, it was pretty awesome.
Next, we hit Lviv and we super pleasantly surprised at not only how beautiful it was but how nice and friendly the people were! Hardly any English spoken outside the really touristy places, but people smiled and waited while we struggled and struggled with the language. We had one notable failure where after waiting 1 1/2 hours for her dinner, Emma finally asked where it was. It's not coming was the blunt sign language reply. Ahhhhhhhhhh, we said to ourselves, that was what she spent 10 mins trying to explain to us earlier! No problem though, we went to our by now most favourite Ukranian eatery and had their excellent cherry dumplings for the very expensive price of $2AU per plate. Night saved.
Kiev is nice too, but has a much more "big city" feel. Our hostel booking was messed up and after an hour of walking around trying to find our hostel, we were told that we didn't have a booking and would have to go to their sister hostel. This was fine and we are now shacked up in a strange little apartment building in the centre. People have no concept of personal space here and if you leave even a centimetre in front of you in a line someone will push in! I even had to wave away a man who was standing right on my back, peering over my shoulder as I tried to use the ATM. This was after he came through and tried to beat me to the card slot even though I already had my card out and was reaching for the machine!
Must dash, we are sick of long train trips already and will be flying back to Poland in 5 days ($100Au flight! Woohoo!) so we will have lots of time to spend at this weird little internet cafe in the post office.
Missing you all (we've hit the 4 week nostagia for home + we are getting lazy and want to speak english and understand what is going on), please write to us!
haha sounds like good times. Flying back to Poland? I thought you were going by train from Ukraine to Hungary? I'm confused.
ReplyDeleteHey I know a phrase you really need to learn in Russian - the equivalent of "ja nai". Probably would have cleared up the whole "we don't have the pork, no really, we don't" thing. Maybe ask the people at the hostel to tell you how to say it :)
Leon
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ReplyDeleteSounds like fun and craziness :) Don't know about that queue jumping saga though....very un-australian! oh hang on....ur not in australia (boo for me, yay for you!)
I dont have any excitement news to report at all really!
Went to Bar Reggio on Sat nite with liz n gull, got horribly drunk and passed out after the put me in bed still dressed in coat and boots. woke up at 3am with matt yelling at me "what the fuck happenend" and realising our house was FULL of smoke after a cheapo candle i na glass jar exploded in the bathroom. Had matt not taken the bloody battery out of the smoke detector (matt: "it kept beeping at me! me: "that means change the battery not take it out!!) i might have woken up early enough to not wake up with black snot up my nose and black cobwebs all over the house. Needless to say i am banning myself from candles (and just as a reminder to those playing at home my unit in eastwood did NOT burn becuase i left a candle on!).
Anyways other than that no exciting shenangians to report, counting the days till you get home (37 i beleive?) matts keeping ur seat at the abbotts and a glass of rum for you emsy.
Did you get my email scotty?
What excitement adventures r u up to next?
More photos please!
love ezzzzza
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