Met boris and family at train station in fribourg. Pleasant train trip to geneva. Shoulder hurts like hell. Pizza after check in. Uneventful flight to kiev, uneventful lunch on plane. Overlay on kiev, beer before taking flight to odessa. Here took taxi to guest house. Acceptable room, friendly boss antony. Off to some late dinner. Late night vodka.

Up early as difficult sleep but glad about that. Off to find good quality vodka with poor success. Took train in meidling and got email from eke just before leaving. Unusually quiet train ride through Simmering and other beautuful scenery of eastern austria. Train change in villach. Very nice welcome by eke. Beer and long talks. Ursl home later had no idea of my presence. Nice evening talking and sharing vodka.

Arrived very early morning wien westbahnhof. Absolutely georgeous weather and awesome crisp air at 6am. Found very nice hostel just around the corner. Nice courtyard. Head off to city via mac store to get lots of info. Then late breakie at trzsenievzcssczki. Good stuff. Walk all around town. Getting overcast and got worried about my washing so head back. Later dinner at figl mueller. Walk back via museumsquartier. Trying to get hold of hartmanns with no success.

Good sleep. Awesome weather. Arrived early morning in Lviv, now on towards graniza and krakow. Wonder how onwards travel will be. Spending hours at border, the most thorough check i've come across on my trip. But even here the girls are georgeous. And threre's heaps of them. On the polish side the train wagon's fahrgestell had to be replaced with a different gauge one. Quite a spectacular sight. Now just feeling bored, heading slowly to krakow. Finished book. Sic...

Early morning landing. Great weather, all spring green. Had to pick up luggage and go to other terminal for odessa. After way too long i realised i was in posession of my bags and could decide not to go to odessa and head home instead. Got bus to train station but due to very heavy traffic didnt make it on time to catch budapest bound traim. Met very nice and helpful yulia at ticket booth. After back and forth got ticket for krakow. Then for a walk to town. Initi...