{"id":5586,"date":"2016-08-09T21:15:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2016-11-13T17:20:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T17:20:20","slug":"lviv-five-weeks-to-go-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2016\/08\/lviv-five-weeks-to-go-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Lviv by train &#8211; five weeks to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How times flies, it seems like last week that I and Herbert sat drinking pints in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/libertybellemicropub\/\">Drayman&#8217;s Son<\/a> in Ely talking about places we&#8217;d like to visit, journeys we&#8217;d love to make. \u00a0That night we agreed that a train to Lviv in the west of Ukraine would be the perfect European adventure. We joked about going one day, never really imagining it would actually come to pass&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And in five weeks time we&#8217;ll be setting off from St Pancras International,\u00a0<strong>\u0423\u0440\u0430! \u0432\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0434!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Where are we going?<\/h2>\n<p>Well, Lviv obviously but we&#8217;ll also spend some time in Krak\u00f3w (Poland)\u00a0and Ivano-Frankivsk (100 miles or so south of Lviv).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=19fTaF6ntrGARFeq0VuS-5XEFZws\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Accomodation<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s all via AirBnB, which makes everything nice and easy (and cheap). \u00a0Here&#8217;s what the outside of our Lviv flat looks like:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5591\" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screenshot-2016-08-03-at-22.03.57.png\" alt=\"Lviv pad\" width=\"1102\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screenshot-2016-08-03-at-22.03.57.png 1102w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screenshot-2016-08-03-at-22.03.57-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screenshot-2016-08-03-at-22.03.57-768x337.png 768w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screenshot-2016-08-03-at-22.03.57-1024x449.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1102px) 100vw, 1102px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sweet!<\/p>\n<h2>Ivano-Frankivsk<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ll spend a night in the university town of\u00a0Ivano-Frankivsk. We thought it would be a nice idea to have some time in a more obscure (to us) place. \u00a0It was a toss-up between Ivano-F and Ternopil, Ivan-F won as it&#8217;s closer to the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>More to come soon!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to Lviv!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[151,150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5920,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions\/5920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}