Saturday, June 12, 2010

Lviv, Ukraine

The past few days have been really good. After being sketched out when I first arrived, everything got better after that. I've been walking around the city a lot, checking out different things. I don't really know how to describe the Ukraine. It almost reminds me of South America just because everything is so chaotic and there are tons of things that could be much safer/cleaner than they are... but nobody seems to care.
The fashion of both men and women is funny, too. Everybody seems like their in the Russian mafia or something.
Few pictures from the past few days:

Me in some random ghetto market (that doesn't look too ghetto in the picture). Mostly taken to show the cyrillic writing:

Today I climbed this mountain-type thing to get a view of the city. Sel-ca picture:

There's a big screen set up for people to watch the World Cup. Me showing my support for South Korea:

You can think what you want of this picture:

I've also had the chance to eat some Ukrainian food. Last night I had something called Salo... otherwise known as raw pig fat.
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  1. Andriy StosykJune 13, 2010 at 2:15 AM

    Hi Will,
    looks like you are captured by shameless ad.
    I am Ukrainian and live in Lviv. And I eat Salo just once per year or so. And that salo is cooked very specially and usually is very spicy but it definitely is not raw pig fat. And, the main joke, salo we eat here is produced somewhere abroad: in Turkey or Bulgaria. So Lviv and salo is just strange myth.

    The real cooking tradition in Lviv is coffee and sweet pastries. I do not know if coffee should be considered as cooking tradition but it is a tradition anyway.
    So ask some body around about a “tsukernia”(цукерня). Tsukerna is kind of cafes in Lviv there sweet pastries are main or even only dish.
    And have good time in Lviv

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