Best Eastern Solovyinaya Roscha Kursk

... see what is in the panniers. I start the labourious process of unhooking bungees. He abandons his search as a bad idea. Good decision!

The Russian passport check is relatively straightforward and then on to Customs. I had a vague memory of filling in a form detailing every single thing we had the last time we entered Russia. Sure enough people are filling these forms in but there is no sign of where they got them from. More ...

... Shchepkin theatre, a cinema; during trip on area, we have visited a memorial complex "Prokhrovskoe field"(memorial is about Kursk battle - the most famous tanks battle in World War 2) I advise you to visit Belgorod, but be cautions: this is Russia. BUT! I'LL TELL YOU WHAT! TAKE A CHANCE!

Seven-and-a-half months before I was trying to go from Russia to Georgia, I'd come to Russia from Ukraine. The day was June 10th, 2007. I woke up in my tent in a field in central Ukraine. I opened my passport. On a blank page, I glued my Russian visa. But, I hadn't waited in an embassy, filled out paperwork, and paid for this visa. I'd made it myself. They say there's nothing like ...

... day to visit there. It was minus 20 degrees Celsius and the wind was blowing about 30mph with gusts even higher. We also visited another church in town. It was cool looking. The door was like a giant bible and you walked between the pages to enter the church. I was told the text on the pages are The Ten Commandments. The rest of the photos are from around the city and travel to and from Belgorod and Moscow.

A bearded, baby-faced twenty-one-year-old who studied spiritual seminary and who wanted to talk about politics; a wise girl with bad complexion who giggled every time one of us tried to move; an older bald man in taxi-station white-collar clothes; a round-faced, cute girl whose light-brown body sweated in an ivory dress; and a tired foreigner with his bags between his knees; all strangers; sat very, very close. We rode in a "marshutka", a van ...

05.40 "Meine Damen und H**ren, wir **reichen in Kürze den Arsch d** Welt". Wir steigen mitten im Nichts aus, in einem Vorort d** Millionenstadt Voronezh, die in d** letzten Zeit Schlagzeilen mit tödlichen Üb**griffen auf Ausländ**n macht. D** Bahnsteig ist nicht beleuchtet. Auf dem Nebengleis steht ein Frachtzug und riecht nach Öl. Uns**e Kollegen sind vorgefahren - sie warten auf uns neben ein** Baracke, die wohl das Bahnhofsgebäude sein soll. Wir rasen ...

16.00 Uhr. Wir sind noch gar nicht abgefahren, aber die kleine Stadt steht schon Kopf: Deutsches Fernsehen kommt! Eine Lokaljournalistin, die ich gebeten habe, für uns zwei Interviews zu organisieren, hat in einem Krankenhaus angerufen, wo die Alkoholopfer liegen. Die Chefärztin meinte, sie darf nicht ohne Genehmigung der Stadtverwaltung reden. Die Stadtverwaltung wusste aber ...

I wrote the following, unedited text in my little orange book, under the heading, "Philosophy," on June 9th while in Staryy Oskol: - Simona says it will be like the "Romantic Revolution" when we die - - Nadezda says I don't have feelings - Romanian mother crying beside the train - do I want to have negative feelings? - No. Not really. - - I left Nadezda and Olga out on their own. Maybe I should stop traveling, help people instead of being helped ...

But, what - if anything - did I accomplish with my trip to Russia? The first mission I didn't accomplish was a plan to start a utopic social experiment while there: to unite individuals who'd consent to follow the principles of the "Romantic Revolution". Those principles, by the way, are: 1. care about others, 2. no sex, 3. no monogamy, 4. every guy kisses every girl, and (eventually) 5. no family. The members of this experiment could've gone on living and working in the greater ...

Destination 31: km46'751 Nach dem heutigen Tag kann ich Bücher schreiben. Erst die Tagesfahrt zum (Dingsbums-)See bis zum Teufel kommraus ob noch eine dringend benoetigte Tankstelle kommt, und dann noch die Fahrt auf der Strasse die einfach im Nichts aufhört, bis zum Umfaller der mit Hexenschuss endete und wundersame Rettung. Alles dabei heute. Wieder Nacht in Wild Nature. Diesmal mitten in Agrar Feldern... Hoffen dass kein Bauer kommt...! Morgen brauchts ...