TALLY HO IT'S UKRAINE PICTURE TIME

Mandy was at Gatwick to meet me and we then drove back up to Cheshire and got to bed about 2am, needless to say we were both a little jaded this morning. We've got all the post sorted and I cleared all outstanding business and went out to mow the lawns and tidy up the garden, the cool damp weather had seen the grass shoot up. I also had to top up all the bird feeders, not a scrap left in them. I got a knock back on my Irish passport application, I need to get Jim put on my birth certificate and they still want his birth cert which I've tried for years to get, a bit of a piss off really as I asked if I had what was required and they just sent the link to the application and took the fee and for the second time never responded, now it's like day one all over again!

Our friend Ged rang about getting the walking days in from Lower Peover to the start of the St Oswald pilgrimage in September, we are on go for tomorrow so that's a bit of a surprise, we'll have to get all my walking kit out and get my nails trimmed and any hard skin removed then get them covered in lotion before socks on time, we are  doing Lower Peover to Congleton about 13 miles then next week the other two days to get us up into Derbyshire. There will be four or five of us and Mandy will as ever supply logistical support, aka a ride home, probably stop for lunch at the Swetty Arrms, nearly poisoned me last time we went there. I've got all the Ukraine video downloaded and the Lviv DVD is already done, I've also been downloading and trimming up the photos from the trip. We are on a dieting day, so it will be nice to have fresh fruit. It's freezing cold here in Cheshire, 34 when we left Kiev last night.

Lets get going with the photos, we can have two sets to kick off with first Lviv, this was the day they had lost my luggage all I had was what I'd traveled in and the deluge was like a monsoon. Later in the afternoon and went to the airport and forced them to look for my case which I knew had been sent on the first Warsaw to Lviv flight of the day.

My first side outing when I got to Lutsk was on to Rivne one of my favourite locations visited, the Skoda 9Tr trolleys were the obvious attraction but all in all a very nice town