Catch up time...

We arrived in Sevastopol and decided to head to the centre for tea, simple enough if you possess a sense of direction which in this case we did not.
After some time wandering about in dodgy seeming, unlit areas with ankle breaking footpaths and passing several donkeys on stairways we got back to where we started and set out again, this time remembering our sense of direction.
By the time we ended up getting in to the city we were that knackered we used fallback option No. 1. McDonalds. Tasty.
The next day we headed out to a town called Bachaysaray to visit a Khan's Palace and Chufut Kale, an ancient cave city carved into a mountain. It was so much fun exploring all the caves with absolutely no direction or safety whatsoever. A few times we would find the caves leading straight into a sheer cliff face, lucky it wasn't a clumsy day. It was a brilliant day though, so much fun.
The following day we began our epic train journey to Lviv via Odesa. From Sevastopol we grabbed an overnight train to Odesa where after failing to find a place to stay we decided to make it a day trip and continue on to Lviv that night, i don't really know what frame of mind we were in at the time but that is a lot of train travel!!
Odesa itself was a magical place, it just seemed to have something about it which made it appealing to us. Whether or not this was because it contained our fallback option No. 2, an Irish pub or because the whole town was clean, vibrant and just plain nice.
One thing we noticed about Odesa was the massive amount of street sweepers. Not the kind you drive but men, women and children with homemade brooms made out of sticks doing there best to keep the streets clean.
The street sweeping practice we had already noticed elsewhere and had raised the question of priorities. Why employ so many people to sweep some of the worst footpaths and roads we had ever seen? Wonder what sort of frenzy there is in the peak of Autumn?
We then headed to Lviv, but we may just expand a little on our rail adventures first...
Photos: Cheese market in Odesa, Chufut Kale