The Mega Trip Part 9 (The Great Wall)
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The Polish train from Lviv to Krakow was absolutely the nicest I’ve ever ridden, bar none.
At only two cars long, it was also one of the shortest – especially considering how it covers an 8 hour journey that includes both an international border crossing and a rail gauge conversion.
So what was it that made this little train so amazingly nice?
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To address a continuing stream of support and feature requests for WP-FB AutoConnect, the most popular of my 3 WordPress plugins, I’ve decided to create my first premium plugin (or more precisely, my first premium add-on to a free plugin). It ties into WP-FB-AutoConnect’s hooks and filters to enable a rich set of additional functionality, documented here. Although I’ve more or less stopped adding features to the core itself, I figure that charging a few bucks for more “specialty” options could provide a good compromise, helping offset the time cost of maintenance and justify future development. Continue reading »
Before moving on to Poland, I’ll post just a few remaining Ukraine blog notes that didn’t make it into any of the preceding entries.
Note that this is in addition to my Odesa Observations post, which deals only with that one very unique city.
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The first day in Lviv I was utterly exhausted, thanks to our considerate little roommate on the overnight train from Kiev. I was also feeling pretty behind on life, as I hadn’t replied to a single email, reviewed a single Anki flashcard, written a single line of code or jotted down a single blog note in days. Especially considering the eventful conclusion to our stay in the Ukrainian capital (including the near-fight on the party boat, night at Club Patipa, bling shop, and beach party) I really wanted to jot down something before kicking off yet another whole new city.
So once we picked a hostel and got settled I suggested that Peder go ahead without me, opening up a bit of time to catch up on sleep and on work – even if it would mean skipping some of Lviv’s touristic offerings.
I passed out the instant my head hit the pillow. And when I awoke an hour or so later, he was still there – to give me one more chance to reconsider, insisting that I’d regret it if I forfeited one of our only two days in such a historically famous city. So I succumbed. But only after catching up on emails and Anki reviews. I guess blogs would have to wait just a little bit longer 😛
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The train from Kiev to Lviv was the first proper sleeper I’d been on during this entire trip: an individual room with four separate bunks.
Unfortunately it was also the first time I had to share my berth with a family of three, the youngest of whom didn’t seem to understand the concept of “inside voice.”
Both Peder and I slept fantastically until around 5am when the little motormouth opened his eyes. I swear he must’ve had a ten second memory, because he’d yell something at the top of his lungs (to one of his sleeping parents about 2 inches away), they’d shush him, everyone would doze off, then ten seconds later he’d do it again. This continued for hours, so I didn’t get a wink of sleep until our arrival around 10am.
Four hours of sleep…just what I needed. Thanks a lot, kid 😡
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