In Lviv

[sabotabby]

This is a gorgeous city, maybe even more than Kiev. It's also very much a City Of Coffee, and I highly approve. There's a café where, if you go into the basement, you can "mine" for coffee in the walls, but besides that, when we asked the hotel guy where to get good coffee, he looked at us weirdly and said, "it's ALL good coffee." A random selection would suggest he's right.

We did a walking tour, saw various churches, the Catholic Quarter, the Jewish Quarter, the Armenian Quarter, all of which seem very close together by contemporary standards. Lviv has changed hands over its history, and the references to Galicia made me do a Google and feel like an idiot because Lviv was in the heart of what had been Galicia, and that's where my grandfather was from.

Anyway, here is the new friend we made:

Comments

[lapinlunaire]

Cats and coffee?! Sounds great to me! :D These photos are really pretty.

Also, this Galicia is always very confusing to me because the first Galicia I think of is the one in Spain.

[sabotabby]

That's the first one anyone thinks of.

Sadly, the stray cats here don't want to be friends with me, unlike the Kiev cat who wanted to live with me.

[lapinlunaire]

Why are there two of them? It's just terrible, like how we literally have a village called Cuba for no apparent reason. One of the Galicias needs to be banned for copy/pasting.

Maybe they'd be your friends but they're sort of busy looking majestic from rooftops and don't really have time for friendship!

[armiphlage]

Thank you for sharing the pictures

[sabotabby]

Thanks for reading my mostly nonsensical travel diary!

[frandroid]

Haha, this photo "gallery" is a good reminder, like SJ was saying, of how backwards Dreamwidth is... Sigh.

[sabotabby]

I'm trying to like DW but all I can think of is how much easier this would be on LJ.