Hotel Timoty Tiraspol

En noe lang reiseblogpost. En noe kort film.<br><br>1. Protagonisten ankommer grensa. Int. Dag.<br><br>Et moderne, typisk grenseskur. To luker. Lang kø. Det aller meste ser generelt østeuropeisk ut. Men, på veggen: Et kart over Transnistria. Mindre utsnitt, ser uniformene. Ser sovjetiske ut. Merket på lua: Hammeren og sigden. Flagget: Rødt, med grønn stripe over, hammer og sigd i gult. Kan skimte røde stjerner her og der i bildekantene.<br><br>Klipp til protagonisten. Spiller ...

Since I read about that "country" I wanted to visit it, so I did from Odessa. I read a lot about Transnistria, so I knew that it would not be easy to go there, so I decided to book a private guide and driver for the day. That was a good idea, so I had the chance to learn a lot about the "country" and I ...

We agreed we would need to travel to Trans-Dnestrier in a group. There was no way we wanted to be on our own and at the mercy of the border patrol. We needed locals to be involved, in a hurry and moving things along. Thank you Mr Bus Driver! This is exactly what happened. After being warned by all and sundry about just how dicey a "border" crossing this would be, we set off with all our cash jammed into our socks ready for the bag searches and bribe ...

Odessa has been lovely so far. There's not a whole lot to see except the people watching is incredible! The women here really do look like supermodels, six feet tall, tons of makeup and fancy (though tacky) clothes, and stiletto heels. they walk very carefully, with their heads held high, perfect posture, putting one stilettoed shoe in front of the other. The men are also well groomed here, unlike the ...

On my walk through the city I discovered at least six people of middle age - sleeping? - or drunken? - or both? Locals have a tendency to make jokes about it - the guy had one too much, or - tomorrow he will be fine, let him have some rest ...

The authorities supervising affairs in today's destination would find Travelpod's assignation of their city to Moldova completely incorrect. To them, the great Soviet relic that is Tiraspol is the proud capital of the independent country of Pridnestroviye, better (if at all!) known in the West as Transdniester. Let's ignore for the moment that not a government on the planet outside of Moscow recognizes this assertion! But this little breakaway region has its own ...

Friday 27 July Received a text message from Jan saying how he'd met the bisexual the previous night and wondered if I was still alive as he'd heard I'd finished at 9.30am the previous morning and was pretty drunk. Said I'd meet him for breakfast at 10am. Went for breakfast of fish and chips and met Jan at 11. Ate my soup, fish (5 sprat like ones) and chips (fried potatoes) and went to check mails at internet cafe before cyling to danger zone. Stomach was feeling like washing ...

On the day we would leave Chisinau we wanted to take a train but since there were tensions on the border between the transnistrians and moldovans we had to take a bus. Only 13 years before there had been a war here for Transnistrian independance and you could still feel the tension at thye border in the city of Bendery where tanks would roll on the streets and you would see armed armymen everywhere. It was quite scary ...

I HAVE TO WRITE A LOT ABOUT THAT PLACE!!!!!! Maybe be you don't know anything about Transniestria... Normal that's a country that doesn't exist! It's the eastern part of moldova, most of people there are russian speakers and they did a revolution for the independance in 1992. But not even a country in the world wanted to recognize their independance... They decide to have their own "boarder", own police ...

salut, endlich mal wied** ein update am freitag! all**dings solltet ihr das nicht als gewohnheit betrachten, denn die naechsten wochen w**den ein wenig spa**lich** ausfallen in punkto b**ichte. dazu spaet** mehr. diese woche war ziemlich ruhig. im bu**o war so gut wie niemand anwesend, im august ist hi** wohl kollektiv** urlaub angesagt. alexei, mein v**miet** und kollege, war manchmal fu** ein stuendchen hi** und v**schwand dann wied**. ich bin imm** noch nicht so richtig dahint ...