Ukraine Train Ride (1st Class) from Kiev to Lviv travel vlog

Join us for train ride in Ukraine as we travel in first class from Kiev to Lviv in this travel vlog. After leaving our apartment in Kiev we took the metro to the main train station and then had quite a bit of time to kill. When we boarded the train we were really happy we bought a first class ticket as it gave us lots of room to stretch out, sleep, get caught up on work and just overall feel comfortable as we enjoyed the complimentary tea service. Upon arriving in Lviv our AirBNB host picked us up and after dropping off our bags in the apartment we went out for a dinner that included Ukrainian dumplings. GEAR WE USE Olympus OM-D E-M5 II: http://amzn.to/1OchS7t Canon G7X: http://amzn.to/1YdjsYX Olympus 14-150mm II Lens: http://amzn.to/1Y79zeM Rode Video Mic GO: http://amzn.to/1WDKtVM Joby Gorilla Pod: http://amzn.to/1PgoY5F SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro: http://amzn.to/25KEErs SOCIAL MEDIA & TRAVEL BLOGS AUDREY: blog: http://thatbackpacker.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatbackpacker/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thatbackpacker twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatBackpacker SAMUEL: blog: http://nomadicsamuel.com/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nomadicsamuel twitter: https://twitter.com/NomadicSamuel instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nomadicsamuel/ Ukraine Train Ride (1st Class) from Kiev to Lviv travel vlog transcript: Hello. It is almost time to check out of our apartment here in Kiev (Киев). Our host is going to be coming any minute. Any minute. We have to finish packing up. Like what happened to the what we had 9 nights just boom. We had over a week here. That is one of the fastest stays we ve ever had anywhere. The time just flew by. We were tired, we also had a lot of work to do and we also just really enjoyed being here. Two stops to the train station. Let s go. But there is going to be a nice long escalator ride to get to the platform. Yeah. These escalators here in Kyiv (Київ) are epic. So we ve made it to the train station. Tickets in hand. And we ve just looked at the departure board. I would like to point out that is the worst departure board I ve ever seen in my life. First of all the letters are like bright red and neon green. And you stare at it for like 3 seconds and it starts blinding you. Our train is leaving in about a half hour so we re back in the station. We are platform 2. Now we just have to find that. It is quite a grand station I must say. It is beautiful. We ve got our seats and what is really cool is we upgraded to 1st class. It wasn t that much more. We ll let you know the price of the ticket a little bit later on. If you take a look over here you can see how it has different classes. If it was second class there would be 6 people but because it is only first there is 4 of us and that gives us lots of rooms for our baggage. We ll show you as we go in. That is where we are sitting. We have basically those 3 seats on the bottom. Alright, so now would be a good time to talk about the tickets. And it is noisy. The train is just taking off. Anyways, we paid just over 500 which is about roughly $20 US dollars and this is for the fastest train possible to Lviv (Львів). And it takes about five hours and forty minutes so we re going to be on here for a little while. But it is quite comfortable. I m glad that we paid for 1st class because we re going to be able to get some work done. Apparently, there is tea service so hopefully we get that too. And just like that we ve been teleported to our apartment here in Lviv (Львів). Um, so yeah we arrived right on time. Our AirBNB host was waiting for us at the train station. We hopped in his car and he drove us here which is so rare. No one has ever picked us up. Which was super awesome. Um but yeah we re really really hungry so we are going to save the apartment tour for another day. Another video. Right now we need dinner. Let s go. We ll take you along for food though. So we are staying in a super residential neighborhood so there are not a whole lot of restaurants around but we found a hotel and they have a restaurant. So we re in here. Right now we are the only guests. The last couple just left but they have like all of these animals. Looking at me everywhere. Look. There is a cow looking at you. Food is here. Food is here. I m so hungry. Like I said I was water fasting earlier on. 24 hours without food so I m ready to eat. This is varenyky. The Ukrainian dumplings. They are delicious. And this is it. We re ending off the video. We re tired. We are really excited to be in this city (Lviv) and we look forward to sharing some videos with you guys soon. But for now goodnight. This is part of our Travel in Ukraine video series showcasing Ukrainian food, Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian cuisine. Music in this video courtesy of BenSound: https://www.bensound.com/