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I am one of the disorganised morons who has massively fucked it with getting tickets but I’d still like to go somewhere with a bit of an atmosphere with a couple of mates tomorrow.

I imagine it will be fairly quiet in town as there will be at least 30k saints fans in attendance at Twickenham but I’m nonetheless assuming the usual pre-match locations (the Beckett etc.) will have a few people there. Other than this, I was mainly wondering if people who went out for the last two finals had any specific recommendations? Will there be anywhere further into the town centre with a few people watching?

I am just curious about this as I am very much a gardens or pub kind of person (basically, don’t particularly like watching us play alone).

Given the fairly expensive price of tickets, and the fact that we are now at the point where we are more or less hitting a 100% attendance record year on year, I am just wondering how everyone actually watches the team, especially when it comes down to unmissable games like semi-finals.

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Hello to lovely people of Lviv. I’m a 25 year old guy from the UK who has a spare half a week this week and I have taken it upon myself to travel to your lovely country and city for the first time. Everything is booked (transport, room etc.) and I have taken out insurance etc. so I believe I’m all set to go.

Someone from my area recently did one of the aid convoy drives and mentioned something about bringing toys to charities. I have a huge 85L bag and I’ve packed fairly light, so my plan is to go to a charity shop in Krakow tomorrow and stock up on stuff like that to bring over with me the following day (unfortunately I am taking the bus as I am a disorganised bastard and thus was too slow to book a train in good time). Is this something people do, and if so can people point me in the direction of somewhere I can drop them off to donate?

Further to this I was just wondering if people had any general suggestions of what to do whilst I’m there? Obviously there’s a lot to see but I’d like to make some sort of a ranking/interary in the meantime.

Like everyone lucky enough to come from a country that has not seen any significant conflict in my lifetime, I am also somewhat apprehensive about the security situation, mainly concerning whether shelters will actually be open or not (I’m aware some are in private houses). Is it safe to assume that a 1000 capacity shelter will be open or are capacity numbers not good to go off?

Finally, I presume I will be stopped by the security services at least once, as I am of fighting age. Will my British passport be sufficient evidence to show that I am not eligible to be conscripted or are there any other documents you would recommend keeping handy? My Ukrainian also isn’t great, but I feel like I can speak enough to get by in some situations without necessarily being able to hold conversation. I am multilingual (German and Spanish both studied to Uni/A Level) so I am aware that my Ukrainian isn’t going to get me very far, but I was also wondering if these people speak English generally, just in case? Assuming not, I will learn some phrases for this situation in the meantime.

Thank you all so much in advance. I’m really looking forward to this and I have heard nothing but good things about the city.