Let me tell you about my trip to Rivne Hi friends! I hope someone of the native speakers becomes interested to chat with me sometimes for I'd like to improve my communicative skills including correct pronunciation. ----- I'd like to tell you about my trip to Rivne. That is the city in the central part of Ukraine. It's famous for its zoo, therefore my friends and me got the point we had to pay a visit there. So we started with checking out correct information how to get there. The kind of transportation we chose was a railcar [*]. Though trains and busses were available, we decided to prefer what was new for us. By the way as it turns out, a railcar is the fastest means to get from Lviv to Rivne. It arrives to Rivne in 2.5 hours instead of 4 as it takes by usual train. I'd add that we, of course, checked out the train schedule and bought one-way railcar tickets for all of us. Our train (actually it's a train, just it looks a bit different) departed in time, that is about 9 in the morning. Hence before the midday we were in Rivne. A passenger who took her aisle seat next to us appeared come from there. She was so kind to us and gave us advice where we could have lunch and how to get to the zoo. Excuse me for such a long story, but I can't omit that we had our lunch in a cafe we had found in a great super-market named "Ecvator". The "Ecvator" was such an impressive place! We found an ice rink inside with many people skating there. And besides there was a colourful children's train riding in super-market's halls =) Ok! Then we went to the zoo and saw lots of interesting animals. Some of the animals' names were so strange I couldn't remember even in Ukrainian ;) At least we happily came home by marshrutka (so we call small local busses) and then by the sleeper train. (The direct transportation in the evening was unavailable). We were so impressed and excited of our trip that I wished so much to share it with you! --- * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railcar or if you check out the ukrainian version of the article, you will see an exact image of our vehicle. And besides it was shot on Lviv railway station, that is in my city. --- P.S. Please check out if I used the articles properly for I stumble at those a lot. Thanks for your attention. And of course, have a nice day! Best, Oksana