Last day in Kiev we were joined by Manuel from Germany, who spent the game night with us in Lviv also. Again quite a lazy day, we took a small walking tour, otherwise just walked around and enjoyed the sun. In the evening I caught the night train to Kamianets-Podilskyi. This time it turned out to be a really crappy one: no beds, just normal chairs, and you couldn't even move the back of the chair. Theis night was very long. Anyways, I had checked some hostels in advance and thought it would be easy to find them when arriving in the morning. Hah, how wrong I was. Not a single person in the station spoke English, and they hadn't even heard of the other hostel. With one taxi driver we found the other hostel because I had an accurate address. But guess what? No one came to open the door. After a while we gave up and the taxi driver got me to one random guest house on the other side of city. We had a small argument of the price of the taxi, but overall he was quite helpful and ok. So I even felt a bit bad afterwards because of the argument. I just hate the feeling of being an easy target to cheat because of being a tourist. (One of those things in Finland I respect so much.. the fact that you can normally trust other people even if you're not a local.)
In the end the guest house turned out to be very good, the owner speaks English and is very helpful. But I guess we still have a small language barrier, because in the morning I took a minibus according to his advise to some small place outside the city. I thought that the famous castle would be there. Well it wasn't. I have absolutely no idea why I was there. The castle was in the old town in the city. Well, nice sightseeing tour... In the evening I actually found the castle of what the city is famous for and wow, it definetily was worth a while! One of the finest castles I've ever visited. A future touist attraction for Ukraine?
Rest of the day tonight I've spent just charching batteries (machines and myself) and showering etc. I was death-tired today, too many nights in a row without proper sleep. But now I have a queen size bed all for myself, so I'm gonna enjoy it so much tonight!
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