#Therisnorush

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Sighetu Maramației to Lviv, 26th - 28th June We only spent one night in Romania's border town Sighetu Marmației. We arrived by train around 9pm. It was another long train ride, but the scenery was beautiful and we had a compartment partly to ourselves. At one point we shared it with a lovely elderly couple and later with two noisy teenage boys. In Sighetu we stayed in an Airbnb, the beautiful home of a very welcoming couple and we were sad we didn't get to spend more time there and with them. They were very relaxed about our check out the next day, which meant we could have a quiet day to ourselves before heading over the border to Ukraine and catching another overnight train. The border was the most scenic border we've ever crossed. Here Romania and the Ukraine are separated by the river Tisa. Once you've passed the Romanian passport control you cross over a beautiful old wooden bridge, which looks like something out of an old western, into the Ukraine. The whole procedure took only twenty minutes and left us plenty of time to get our tickets printed out at the forlorn train station, exchange money on the second floor of a plastic store, buy food for the journey ahead and go for an incredibly delicious schaschlik thanks to the recommendation of the Airbnb couple. Our sleeper train was glamorous in a very communist style. It had decorated carpets, red leather seats and chunky orange lamps. Luckily we got a 4-bed compartment all to ourselves, although we still didn't get much sleep as usual. And at 5:15am it was time for our wake-up call for our arrival in Lviv at 6am. Needles to say it's been a very tired and slow but yet really nice day in Lviv so far.