Vishneva 16 Uzhhorod

... s, people selling the fresh produce they had grown, the looks were equally zoombified, friendly or dumbstruck.

Instead of travelling further east into The Ukraine I choose to head south and into Romania, if I could. The only map I had, had all the cities, towns and villages written in our Latin alphabet, while all the signs in The Ukraine were written in the Cyric alphabet. My map was useless.

I navigated my way to the ...

... they departed.

A day of meeting the young and old drifted away as I went to sleep listening to the paralyzing drone of motorway traffic on the outskirts of
Slovakia´s second city.

7th September 115 km

I awoke to the memory that I had a headache for a good reason, thanks to my Kosice cycle posse. I eventually overloaded the chain-driven rolling apparatus and slowly, very slowly, left my motorway residence.

I trundled ...

Vecer po velkom okruhu juhovychodom Slovenska mame este cas sa trochu poprechadzat po centre Michaloviec pred tym ako odideme do nasho penzionu na brehoch Zemplinskej Siravy v dedine s priznacnym nazvom Kaluza. Zajtra teda mame prvy den oddychu ked nebudeme robit nic len spat a lezat na brehu Siravy.

Z Ciernej nad Tisou pokracujeme do jednej z naslavnejsich a mozno aj najslavnejsej vino produkujucej oblasti Slovenska - do Tokaja. Cestu na Tokaj sme nasli v pohode, ale dostat sa do Malej a Velkej Trne bola vcelku zdlhava zalezistost, pretoze sme pobludili po chotaroch aspon troch obci a nasli niektore osady v okoli Slvenskeho noveho mesta, ktore sme teda rozhodne nehladali. Nakoniec sme sa ale nasli a stastlivo dorazili do pivnic Velkej Trne.

Vcera sme obsolvovali cestu severovychodom Slovenka a dnes mame pre zmenu na plane jeho Juhovychodny cip. Vyrazame z Humenneho a nas prvy ciel je Cierna nad Tisou. Do Ciernej so sa chcel uz velmi dlho pozriet. Neviem ci je to preto, ze je to uplne na hraniciach alebo ze ked sa clovek pozrie na mapu Slovenska, tak z Bratislavy je len malo miest tak velmi vzdialenych. No tak ci onak dnes ideme prave tam!

Z Medzilaboriec sme pokracovali dalej cez Sninu. Cestou nam takmer podvozok zostal na miestnych rozbitych cestach, ale nakoniec sme stastne dorazili do Humanneho. Ubytovali sme sa nedaleko niekdajsej fabriky Chemlonu Humenne znameho po celom Slovensku ...

After leaving the rainbow we ended our first day of hitching at Trebisov, spending the night on a roadside, passing trucks in the night. after a walk, entered the town at about 11am ish and were greeted with smiling faces (and slightly amazed) a group of children took us to the local park behind their flats and listened to some music we gave them, then offered ...

... we were in west ucraina and must to head to crimea, that is 2 days by train. But the ticket were bought, we said goodbuy to all the friends who where staying, made our backpacks, had the last drink, e-mail exchanges. we head to the elecktrichca train, and here I met the spirit of SSSR - we paid less than we should be paying for 12 people, but we went without tickets. The conductor explained to us that she must sell a specific amount of ...

... psyankas! After the castle my buddy left to catch her bus and I headed next door to the open air museum. It was a group of about 15 old houses, a church and a school house from old villages. It looked like something right out of Little House on the Prairie. It even had some sheep wandering around and the ladies working at each house were raking or gardening on the sides if there were no groups around. After that I went to the mall in search of internet and then shopped around the ...

If I had to pick one word to describe myself while in Ukraine, it would have to be clueless. I've sometimes before described a place by saying, "They didn't speak any english." But in reality, all places I've previously referred to have spoken english, it just wasn't very much or maybe wasn't very good. But holy ****! When I say no one spoke english while I was trying to cross the Ukraine border, I mean not a ...