Greetings from sweltering vinnytsya

The temperature I  the Ukraine has continued to soar now in the high thirties and I'm not sure if it will last as the forecasts say it will cool down, I've certainly caught the sun again and haven't seen a cloud for several dsys. This morning wasn't quite such  a an early start although glad to  see the back of the hotel in Ternopol it was almost pseudo Soviet in its awfulness not just provincial Ukrainian. i got my tickets and some vitals for the journey with a scheduled arrival just after ten a three hour journey. It's always a quite relaxed timing and were see pretty well to time arriving at khmelninsky a bus station number two. I bought my ticket for the onwards journey for four pm later today and then attempted to ask about left luggage. As is so often the case excuse pun, it was a member of the travelling public who understood what I wanted and pointed down to the floor below and in the corner were the lockers. Thankfully they weren't working as they looked anightmsre replaced by alert with a cupboard room where you got a token relating to your case with Seoul of paper put on it which cost about ten pence and was remarkable in its simplicity and ease of use and not a computer in sight! I got a taxi to the road I had been given as a central trolleybus location and it was a fair journey which cost twice the three hour coach trip there. There wdit.was a bit of a one way system which meant that whichever way the sun was at least one direction would be good for shootjng. Film and photography. There was quite a mixture but much more based on ziu trolleys and the odd subsequent trolza plus new local build trolleys from slupst. There were plenty of French and German buses around many still in original liveries. Time marched on interspersed with ice creams and coffees but what seemed a long time doing it eaten up and I'd also found that another suggested street was part of the one way loop so wasted time trying to find it and just down the road with very thin services was another dam and lake but the bridge wasnt elevated so hard to show anything of the water without some perspective at height. The last suggested shooting Spot was by the outside market which had very minimal services and again wasted a lot of time mid morning through to pmsevices are as low as one per hour on several routes although as there were twelve routes throwing in the better ones it still have reasonable frequencies. I heard back and got on to the main road between city and market which I had spotted on the way to market another great stopping place with sun spot on but time was no against me and although I had a strip of minibus tickets I had no trolleybus ticket.  I needed to get a taxi to the bus station and there were none around so hopped on the trolley got ticket, got back off a central point and found single taxi driver pissed off that I had interrupted his fat break which actually is a twenty four hour episode for a lot of Ukrainians. Eventually got back to bus station it bollockdby shopkeeper as I picked the ice cream with the price on it, got luggage found stand getting good at reading cyrylic it's amazing how it grows on you. The heatwave awful. The bus even though it was just two hours on quite good road surface isn't. Got to us station where tram also terminates, found taxis tried four none knew of hotel despite ringneck to a major hospital, they really take the biscuit for rubbish taxi drivers anyway found one and we battled through heavy Friday afternoon then your traffic and found hotel took thirty minutes. It's well furnished, air con, internet,superb restaurant up the road and at least seven trolleybus routes passing by. GT message from Martin who is now in Kiev meeting him at local station tomorrow lunch time. Hotel which, clean, reception has no English but when you gain her respect but getting things right such as having correct money to pay equal twenty quid sterling and coming back happy with restaurant she graces you with showing smile! Looks completely place to get around march as den before but then I'd been to Ternopol and that didn't help at all. That's it for steamy Ukraine.