Over the past day and a half I:
- drank coffee lit on fire (with some liquor) and dripped through metal pipes in an underground coffee mine (which is funny when you think about it)
- had lunch in a bunker dedicated to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought against both the Nazis and the Soviets. You have to say the password ("slava Ukraina", or "glory to Ukraine") to enter; Seattle bars take note!
- stumbled into a bar themed on torture instruments. When I was done, the waitress put a wood block on the table with the check on it, then chopped through it with an ax.
- ate dinner at a nice cafe on the central square
- had a drink with some Couchsurfing folks in a 5-story multi-room cafe where each room has a different theme
They really do their theme restaurants/cafes right. Remind me to put this place on my list of "places to go write an app for a week".
Other sightseeing: some churches and museums and stuff. Really cool cemetery. Kept looking for Warcabas, but no luck.
Famous writer Ivan Franco.
Also went to the obligatory high place to get a view of the city:
It's nice here! Very lively; there are some performances and stuff for the upcoming Euro 2012 soccer tournament, and just a lot of people out around town. This is definitely a city where there are old guys playing chess in the park. And everything is cheap. As my CS host Yuriy joked, "when I went to the US, the prices stayed the same, except in dollars instead of hryvnia." 1 dollar = 8 hryvnia.
Moving on today to another Galician city, Ivano-Frankivsk. Careful readers may note that it's named after a famous Ukrainian writer.
> stumbled into a bar themed on torture instruments. When I was done, the waitress put a wood block on the table with the check on it, then chopped through it with an ax.
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Congratulations; you have visited Offida, the home of your father's father's father; and Galicia, the home of your father's mother's mother; and England, the home of your mother's mother's & father's mother and father; now you must visit Krypton, the home of your father.
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