20090520 – Wednesday – Lviv

Woke up to pouring rain, but set out for the pioneer village anyway. An outdoor (what else would you do in the pouring rain) museum, with buildings from the various areas and times in Halychyna-Bukovina. Later we met Tess for lunch at the UPA theme restaurant where an armed guard challenges you, asking if you are a Muskovite. You can go into the basement and shoot off a revolver, but we just ate. Later we did a bit more site-seeing before heading off to the ballet. The Opera – Ballet Theatre is fabulous in décor, rivals Vienna, and is about half the size. It was built during the [Austro-Hungarian] empire. http://www.uazone.net/go/gallery.cgi?gallery=Lviv&what=buildings&ac=show&id=063 After the ballet we had dinner at the Restaurant Mozart, with usual sumptuous and enormous portions of slavic-germanic foods served everywhere! We then went back to our room to pack for our 4am wake-up call for our flight to Munich. Sleep was not easy. At about 2330h, crowds poured onto the streets, singing, drag racing, drinking and generally celebrating Ukraine's victory over Germany in the Euro Cup.