Ukraine List

I saw this photo recently come over Flickr, and I thought it was a really great shot of Kamianets Podiliskyi. You can see the top of the fortress in the back and the Turkish bridge leading up to the fortification. The framing and perspective are beautiful, and it was taken by Alexander Kidalov. You can […]

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I know that I am a bit late on the Lviv topic as it just celebrated its 750th year in September, but I thought I would do a n image gallery of Lviv using only watercolors, drawings, and paintings — but no photography. Photos of cities can be a bit dry.
There have been many different […]

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After looking into Poland-Ukraine travel options, I realized that one could get from London to Lviv for an insanely cheap price if a person used the budget carrier Ryanair to Poland and then took minibuses across the border to Lviv. You can see the post here. Anyhow, even though many budget airlines do not yet […]

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I have updated the the blog post about traveling between Poland and Ukraine. I found a good forum post on Trip Advisor that gave details about using mini-buses to cross the border. Apparently, it is fast and cheap.
Anyhow, thanks to Lviv Travel for that one. You can contact them at lvivtravel@yahoo.com. I can’t vouch for […]

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The Bradt travel guide says that getting to Ukraine via Poland is one of the easiest ways since Polish transport is frequent and reliable. It is easy to get right up to the border and taken any number of buses. The guide notes that the two main routes are Przemysl-Lviv or Lublin-Lutsk. Other than Russia, […]

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