New Hotel Selected for Chernivtsi

Brother Bob has confirmed that we will be staying at a different hotel in Chernivtsi this time, but he didn't remember the name.

But thanks to Oleta's interpreter Wally Vasylovych who's been translating our testimonies into Ukrainian, we now have the name. It's the Andinna Hotel, or Hotel Andino.

If you have a Google toolbar, or if you're using a Google Chrome browser you can get their site translated from Russian into English. Even without a translation you can still check out the photos.

I think I remember seeing this hotel before while it was under construction, but I don't know why we would have been in that neighborhood unless it was to visit someone. If I've got the right spot and AccommodationBook.com says it is, then it will be much closer to the churches than the Cheremosh where we've stayed in previous years.


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If you want to see what we will be missing this year, check out these photos of the Hotel Cheremosh from TripAdvisor.com. The Andinna will definitely be an improvement.

Flight Schedule

We are scheduled to fly out of Chicago at 5:22 p.m. Thursday, July 12, on Flight 2 of LOT Polish Airlines (LO) and arrive in Warsaw 9.5 hours later at 9:55 a.m. Friday.

We're flying on a Boeing 767-300. The new 787 Dreamliners don't go into service until early next year. We're served dinner and breakfast on the flight.

We just have a couple of hours in Frederick Chopin International Airport as we leave at 11:50 a.m. on flight 765 (LO 765) for Lviv, Ukraine. The flight it just one hour but it will be 1:50 p.m. local time. At this point we will be eight hours ahead of everyone in Illinois and the Central Time Zone.

We get a snack on the flight which uses a Boeing 737-400 aircraft.

We fly out of Lviv on Saturday, July 21 on LO 766 at 2:40 p.m. and arrive at 2:40 p.m. in Warsaw.

On Sunday we leave Warsaw at 12:10 p.m. and arrive in Chicago 10 hours and 10 minutes later at 3:20 p.m. C.D.T. For that one we get dinner and breakfast as well.

30-Day Forecasts Show Nice Temps

The 30-day forecast from Weathertrends360.com shows highs in the 70s for Chernivtsi during at least the first part of our trip with lows either the upper 50s or low 60s. That's perfect weather.

Odessa though will be warmer with the highs in the low 80s most of that time and lows in the 60s.

For Illinois we're looking at scattered thunderstorms for the day we leave, July 11. We've had storms before on the way to Chicago.

Of course it's 24 days out so I can confidently predict that the weather forecast will change by the time we get there.