And we were more relaxed. We rode the tram with our bags from the train station to city center, strolled around town, revisited the Armenian Church, did some shopping, and ate like there was no tomorrow. ;-)
Drying our wet umbrellas on the train from Chernivtsi to Lviv.
The attendant's dinner. Nice!
Selfie in the corridor.
Taken by SL. By chance we had the whole compartment to ourselves for the entire 5 hours.
Lunch the next day at the Chas Poisti in Lviv.
The view from our hotel window into Rynok Square.
The Opera House.
The Bell Tower of the Armenian Church.
Music on the square.
Umbrellas.
Plenty of business at this McDonald's located several blocks south of the Old Town.
We walked over to the market and bought some fresh eggs.
These ladies in the market are making cherry dumplings.
Graffiti. That's "Lviv" in the Cyrillic alphabet ie "Львів".
Dinner with a beer.
It was Vyshyvanka (Embroidered Shirt) Day in Ukraine. Many folks were wearing traditional Ukrainian embroidered clothes like the woman at left.
And this guy with the white jacket.
The tourist office listed a free concert at 7:00 pm at the Opera House: European Music at the Ottoman Court. So we showed up at 6:50 and a polite young woman told me that all the tickets had been reserved. However, she continued, tickets could become "open" so check back with me at 7:00. And I did and she handed me 2 tickets, one in the front row and one directly behind in the 3rd row. And the show started right after we found our seats.
The concert was very good. The orchestra perfect, and the subject informative. Each of the pieces was introduced by the conductor, who also made the point of the long time existence of favorable relations between Turkey and Ukraine although they were often adversaries as well.
The Opera House in the late twilight after the concert.
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