Our last hour in Lviv — a costume party at the Lviv Opera House:
Afterwards, it was back on a bus heading to the Polish border town of Medyka. We figured that a bus would be more convenient than a train as buses have an easier time crossing the Polish border than a train, which would have required an extra hour of inspections and a track gauge change (due to different track systems between the two countries).
This is what it’s like to do an overland crossing from a non-EU country to an EU country…
We arrive at the first checkpoint:
They then take and inspect our passports:
Then it’s a stop at the duty free shop (of course), where alcohol is unusually 10x cheaper than it is in the USA:
Then we head back to the bus, with the Ukraine border behind us:
Afterwards we do the walk into the Polish border, where we get our visa stamps:
Then once we get our visas, we get whisked off to an interrogation-style holding room (like what you see in the movies) while they search our bus in a garage:
After about 20min of waiting, we’re back on the bus and on our way:
And then we’re off to Krakow…
- At time of posting in Rzeszow-Jasionka, it was 41 °F -
Humidity: 56% | Wind Speed: 19km/hr | Cloud Cover: clouds and visibility OK
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