Culinary studio

Best food of this trip, and possibly a couple of previous trips too, at culinary studio Крива Липа. The whole centre of Lviv is cool. English seems to be the clearly preferred lingua franca; twice did I try to address people in Russian as in smaller places this had worked best, but here the reply was invariantly "Do you speak English?" Maybe it's a sign of how bad my Russian is. Maybe not.

It was a hot (+8.5) sunny day and I decided to take in a piece of the Carpathian mountains. The road there was in appalling condition, people were driving at walking pace because of the potholes, and I didn't go much faster because of the ice. (Btw, the K60s have more grip on ice than they do in mud, and snow is even better.)

So the place is Lviv, 1276 km to home, and the updated forecast suggests I only have two more days to get out of here. Will try to start early tomorrow.