You cannot go on a Ukrainian train without beer, well beer, alcohol and some food.
This afternoon we've arrived at the Boksan and we are going to be taking
a first-class train experience to Rivne.
Whenever you're in the grocery store here you gotta drop off your backpack
because you're not allowed to bring it inside. So you have one of these keys.
You guys aren't familiar with Novus, it's like a huge supermarket brand here in Ukraine.
And it's located right; conveniently right across; from the train station.
So you can get everything from alcohol behind me, beers, snacks, fresh food
literally everything here.
There's a very special section for Ukrainians here, which is mixed drinks,
which is vodka and lime, gin and tonics,
rum colas, and brandy cola all for like less than a dollar each.
All right guys leaving Novus right now. The entire cost of all that was about 200 hryvnia,
which is less than USD 10, i'll put the amount right below.
Lots and lots of trains leaving here from Kiev today,
and we just gotta find which platform ours is on today.
You guys don't have time to go to the supermarket you can always go back here.
There's a few cafes and little vendors selling stuff.
So we're currently looking for train number 12; for car number 12. It's pretty far down.
Oh my gosh it's so tight in here three and four three and four
That's so dark in here, oh my god! Oh my god, it scares me!
K:
No it's not A: no lights?
Oh there we go, lights oh wow okay welcome to the first class train
Oh my god, this is a really old-school design.
All right guys we found our car or our room,
and i've kind of got an idea of what the room looks like
so let's give you a quick tour before the train leaves here.
All right, so here's the room guys. Give you a quick tour of it.
It's actually pretty small, it's made only for two people.
Beds already all made for us thankfully. We've got some water for us on each side.
I don't know what this is, looks like we got some cotton towels for washing our face and stuff.
And disinfectants as well. A few water bottles here and we get another towel on our beds as well.
Everything smells really nice, everything looks really clean and you get two pillows, not one.
A mirror as well as an extra light, so extra lighting. Hangers on both sides as well.
You guys can't see it yet above; Kintanya as well; there's a huge blanket above us
and as well as storage above.
For those of you wondering where to put your luggage when you guys get in here,
these actually lift up and there is storage underneath of here as well.
And i believe there's a second one on the other side as well.
And then of course we have our kitchen table or dining table actually.
I think we're gonna wait until the train does start moving now
before we start eating and everything and ask for some tea but...
I don't hear anybody else on this train seems pretty seems pretty empty.
Actually guys you know what, let's go check out the bathroom situation before we leave.
Oh my god.
okay here's the toilet.
It smells..
It seems like a very standard soviet bathroom. Give you a quick tour, okay?
First thing i notice is a socket. Our room doesn't even have a socket, I don't think.
Looks like we've got soap here.
Water which doesn't work maybe oh this is the old school soviet style.
You push the button. Got some toilet paper in here, a hanger and yeah.. This is your toilet.
Guys, so any of you know what is this for?
Maybe it's.. oh hold on.
Oh i think this is if you have a top bunk then these are like the steps to get up.
But we don't have a top bunk.
So nice, we're moving but it's still hot here, there's gonna be ac after.
By the way guys, the only.. oh they just turned on the hallway lights.
The only form of air because our window doesn't open is right here outside.
This little tiny crack up here it's the only form of air we have so far.
By the way guys there's not a single outlet in this room to charge your phone.
So if you guys plan on coming here and you want to work on your laptop;
you want to work on your phone, you better bring a power bank.
The only outlet on this train is in the bathroom like i showed you or right here.
The only single outlet in this whole train.
This is my favorite salad in ukraine, it is called salat olivier.
And then Kintanya wanted to try one of these, mango salads.
But of course we cannot be on a Ukrainian train without some rum cola.
Oh that's strong
So everybody's going to sleep now. It's like almost 11 o'clock now.
All the doors are closed but before we go to bed i want to ask if Kintanya can figure out
the bathroom sink situation.
Do you want to go wash your hands and stuff?
Little
I don't like that. It's so hard. I've never seen or experienced something like that. It's so hard.
I'm holding the door because it's shaking like crazy right now.
Yeah it's definitely gotten much cooler since we got on the train.
It's about two and a half hours later now, so we're gonna get some sleep
because it's already 11.30 and we have to wake up at 3.30 to get off the train in time.
So you have to set up alarms pretty early in the morning.
So we'll see you guys once we get to Rivne.
Well, welcome to very green Rivne at 3.40 in the morning.
After a 6.5 hour train ride 350 km, we've arrived in the very yellow and blue soviet train.
Now if only we can find a taxi to get to our airbnb, let's see what we can do.
Well i think we've arrived outside the apartment building.
We just can't seem to get the code to work.
And i have honestly no idea how i would get around here if i did not know Russian.
Now the only problem here is now it's getting through this dang door that has a code on it
when the code doesn't work that the airbnb has provided us.
So just waiting on that now at 4am in the morning.
Okay so it's actually the last one but..
Well it just turns out we were at the wrong side of the building
and wow i'm tired 4.15 in the morning got into our airbnb finally here in Rivne.
Tomorrow, actually today, oh my god i'm losing my mind.
Today we're going to be exploring Rivne as well as the real reason we came to this town.
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