We were going to drive all the way to Mucachevo today, but we left Verychanka late – sometime in the early afternoon. We didn’t get to the mountains til around 2, lunch was around 3, and we stopped at a big craft market at 6. Natalia was still not feeling well, and Mukachevo was still 200 or so kilometres away. Eugene had a Plan B. He knew a small hotel called Tisa hotel, in Rakiv, which was just 40k away, and it would mean that we slept in the Carpathians. So we went with plan B. The hotel was four storeys and was old Sovet style, but a single floor had been bought and renovated by someone else and rooms were being rented out. Really cheap – 130 hryvy per room, so about $60 for 3 people. Rooms were clean and comfortable and both Natalia and I slept well. Natalia didn’t feel well enough to go for dinner, so Eugene and I did. I had borsch and salad and then popped in to an internet cafe to do email speedier than in the car on Eugene’s laptop. It cost 2 hryvny for 30 minutes of internet.
