Moya Samara

... It is replicated thousands of times throughout the world. Surely there can't be that much corn grown. There is. All the way through Poland, Ukraine and into Russia. Enough to keep us bar-b-qing for the next 20 years.Fields the size of Rutland or Co. Louth.And as for sunflower oil we could run the entire auto industry on what's grown here.

Tues. 23rd Jun. 472k's. 8hours,
We think this was probably one of the most tedious and frustrating days of driving yet. Road works forever and speed limits of between 40-90 kph. We averaged mostly 50-70 kph,
Lunch time, we stopped off at a road side cafe for a big bowl of borsh (soup) and bread. A Ukraine specialty, and it's so delicious I think I'll have it everyday.
The ...

After spending a fun filled weekend in Nosara, we headed an hour away to Samara. We met up with a bunch of couchsurfers that are all working down here (for couchsurfing) and the house cook (a CSer) made homemade pizza's for dinner. We are walking distance from the beach and the view from their place is incredible. Even the shower has an open ocean view. I can't believe how gorgeous everything is. I have not gotten alot of internet time yet, so not alot of blogs ...

... here. Not terribly touristy yet either, but I think the beaches are nicer than Montezuma´s - although Vicky would disagree. Just spent the one night here as we were using this spot as a springboard to Nicaragua, and we´re getting anxious to see something different. Edit: The blog map doesn´t know where Samara is, so I used Nosara instead which is fairly closeby. We decided to try out the public transportation for a change. Shuttles out of town were expensive, and ...

Samara is not on the Trans-Siberian-Railway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samara%2C_ Russia http://wikitravel.org/en/Samara

Samara is not on the Trans-Siberian-Railway. It is far more south. More information: http://wikitravel.org/en/Samara http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samara

... to bed early. There really isn't much to do at night. I met Allie on the street here near my house about one month ago. She was studying Spanish here for a month and invited me to meet her classmates. They are part of the same group I traveled to Arenal with. Saturday Allie and I got up and went for a long run/walk. Then we picked up Vicki and headed out for breakfast. We ...

... cheap basic holiday home/cabin which was great fun. even had feasibility to cook own grub..... Here surfing is the done thing so we had to mingle at a typical surf camp where we ate, played holiday camp games and were entertained by live open mike music..funky. Thursday, got mashed in the rough sea while body surfing but was nice to chill out. The last stop for me was at Samara half way up the west coast where I had to leave the ...