-From the hostel to the railway station take the tram no.1 – it cost just 2 hryvnia! I left the hostel at 7.10 am, the tram stop is just near. I was waiting 20 minutes, tram did not arrived, I decided to take an energetic walk along the line to the station. This was good decision because I did not see any tram going along that way… At 7.57 am, a bit sweaty I boarded marshrutka in front of the Lviv main station. It departed 3 minutes later. Bingo!
It took us 2 hours to reach Sheginia – little village at the border crossing to Poland. They charge 38 hryvnia for such a 80 kms journey with some visits of the side villages on the way.
In Sheginia there are money changers plus few little shops, so I spent my last hryvnias buying Ukrainian bread and took 200 m walk to the border crossing. On Ukrainian side there were no queues. It seems that they were not happy to see Russian visa in my passport. But there were also visas of China, Tajikistan and border stamps of Brazil, Argentina, Chile and more… 🙂 So why? Soon I walked onward to Polish side. Here is the drama: the crowd of some 200 Ukrainians blocks the narrow passage. There is separate line for EU citizens, but they do not respect that and some 30 people stays also there pushing each other. Hard to discribe. There is significant difference in the price of cigarettes and alcohol, so they are bringing it to Poland, many times each week… I managed to get through the pushing crowd after some 40 minutes… On the Polish side the city bus to Przemysl was waiting to take me to the Przemysl railway station just for 2 zlotys. Uff… I am back in Poland!
