A [BIG] DREAM COMES TRUE: UKRAINE (Part-8)

                                                                    ~LVIV~

(Part-1)

After a long time, I again had a chance to come to Ukraine (in the middle of October 2012) and this time I started my journey from one of the most interesting cities of Ukraine: LVIV

The Journey Where Starts

Actually this was going to my 3rd times in Ukraine and the story of this journey is really interesting because that time I had a travel partner: my commander who was second lieutenant from the military time...

In the army process, I and my commander from this time were talking about abroad and how to travel abroad etc. numerously and we were thinking to go to a country for some days and this became true just after one year from all these conversations...We were going to Lviv-Ukraine :)

I still think that it is really interesting to travel with your commander from military times and it is not common for sure...

We arranged everything and the day came out for going to Lviv from Istanbul. From Istanbul to Lviv it took only 1 and half hour and when we arrived there, something funny thing appeared about my passport control. When the lady who was the officer at passport control holded my passport, she wanted to check it as usual and every each page, she was coming across with one visa from Ukraine...one page-one visa; one page-one visa and when she couldn't see the third visa, she asked me where I have 3rd visa. I suddenly surprised what she had asked me because I wasn't expecting such a question like that as many people know that visas had already been cancelled between Ukraine-Turkey...and after a minute she realized and started laughing...it was really interesting moment because all people included polices were looking at us!!! :)

After we passed from passport control, we had to wait money exchanging for at least 1 hour and finally the lady who was working like a bee!:) exchanged our money and then we left from the airport. 

This airport is newly renovated in April 2012 for EURO 2012 Events as you can imagine. 

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport

When we took the trolleybus, we came to the almost the centre of the city and started to walk to the center. 

Routes, Routes, Routes...

The center of the city (according to me because as I calculated I had a chance to reach almost everywhere to the main parts of the city from there in same time:)) is mostly known as the square of Taras Shevchenko Monument. We met with one of my friends's daughter in here and she suggested us a very great hostel where is even like your home comfort: Coffee Home Hostel If you travel to Lviv and if you would like to drink Lviv's special coffees also a place where you will stay: I strongly suggest this hostel to you: the travellers...

The Taras Shevchenko Monument & I

This evening even if we were so tired we wanted to explore the city for sure and one of my friends who is from Lviv also joined us...and she took us to a very special restaurant which is so hard to come across not only in Ukraine but also in many other countries at least I had never come across with such an interesting restaurant like that. I mean the concept for sure :)

Better to talk about this restaurant which has really different concept in the following part...


                                          ~TO BE CONTINUED~