Day 4 -- Lviv

Right after breakfast Pani Marta met us and we took a cab.  The first stop was a cemetery dating from 1763 (Lychakovski Cemetery).  It is about 500 acres with thousands of graves but she had located Bo’s great great grandfather's grave. She gave us an extensive tour of the place.  She had been coming there since she was a child, and stopped to describe the graves of tons of important people.  Unfortunately, she knew Al was Armenian so had to take us to the Armenian section and tell us about some of the people buried there.  After almost an hour we got to leave.  The next stop was the Krzywczyce  area where Bo’s grandma lived.  The picture Bo had was taken 1938 and a lot has changed, but Pani Marta triumphantly took us to a little unpaved country road and knocked on a gate of a house there. An elderly lady let us in. Pani Marta positioned us with the church tower behind, and the scene did indeed resemble the 1938 picture. After a nice chat with the lady who said that her family moved into this house in the 1940s from the east, we drove back towards the city.  We then went to an area formerly known as Kaiserwald, which now houses a huge outdoor museum of folk architecture from Western Ukraine. All the buildings are authentic and were moved there from various villages. We saw a few beautiful wooden churches, a school and a house and we got eaten by mosquitoes. Then she took us to a restaurant where we grossly overate. Finally after 5 hours we managed to run away.