Hotel Eduard Uzhhorod

... in the last post (though she conveniently remembered the elevator story!) and I'm thinking "what would Lauren write?" It is strange to be apart after 30-some straight days of being attached like siamese twins, but here goes from where she left off...

Aside from bathtime, the weekend was fairly uneventful. It is rainy and crummy here still and we pretty much just stayed inside and played with whatever we could ...

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In the end I paid a Ukrainian Vauxall Carlton driver, 5 euro to half shove my bicycle in his boot. Oddly enough it worked like a treat and also being with a Ukrainian meant I wasn't required (as all non Ukrainians are) to bribe the border bullies.

I waved goodbye to my new opportunistic border-crossing associate and cycled off into The Ukraine.

The Ukraine, founding member of the former Soviet block had crumbling ...

... road I was invited to join fellow cyclists, Joesph and Veria on the road to Kosice. I accepted their invitation but was secretly thinking it would be a bit slow and tedious. How wrong I was.

Joesph knew the area, it was his hood. We crossed rivers, railway tracks, followed paths IŽd never have guessed existed and twice traversed train bridges. Train bridges, long train bridges, for trains not bicycles, train bridges where if a train ...

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!

... je to uz Chemes a vyrobou umelych vlakien sa uz vobec nezaobera. Skor prenajima byvaly areal zavodu a vyraba energiu pre svojich najomnikov. Vecer sme si este urobili okruznu prechadzku po centre Humenneho pred tym ako sme si dnes po dlhej ceste oddychli.

Well, I will try to bring my memories back to the moment when I decided to go to crimea. At firts this idea seemed so crazy and astonishing, but learnign that in the same direction some great guys and even greater girls are going, I decided Lets Go! Finally we created a group of like 12 people, most of us 20-25 years, half boys and half girls, all young and anarchic, we didnot care about nothing, juts living the moment. great till know, but ...

... place to camp, so a battle for control already. Turned off main road into very rural area, with lots of people sitting on road side home made benches watching the world go by. Found somewhere to camp up a hill overlooking spa hotel and various aerials. Later Lehel demonstrated the way to defecate when camping, first digging a hole with a stick, I nicknamed the **** stick. Went to bed once dark.

... It was mighty impressive for such a small town, but I guess with the location of the town it would historically make sense to have a fortress like that here. It had a big wall around it and a ditch which I guess would of had the moat and the dragon back in the day ;) Inside it was like a little palace, complete with a courtyard in the middle. The Castle is now a museum of, well, everything from the area; trees, animals that have been stuffed, traditional costumes and of course many ...