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Russia: Samara and sayonara
... next day we walked around Samara, went to a Blini place and had a real dinner by the Volga river side. The brewery was of course also visited and our 1,5l water bottle filled from the tap for 1,5€. In the mean time we had also found a nice hostel with private rooms for the second night.
All in all, Russia was a nice enough place but we were happy to hit the road again and finally get the hell out of dodge/Europe.
The next morning we bid ...
Episode 6
Episode 6
That place where Lyn posted the last blog entry was Voronez. She couldn't think of it at the time and didn’t have the map with her. David had spotted a very large shopping centre and we had pulled it. It was an Auchan centre, this is a French company and we shopped in their supermarket in Dunkerque. This brand new centre had 100’s of shops, many leading brand names, and at one end there was WIFI available in ...
Kazakhstan to Russia - What an ordeal
We woke up still in Kazakhstan with an extra passenger in the top bunk, Halida, 33. I think she was shifted along when new passengers boarded the train in the middle of the night. Halida is Uighur and from Tashkent. Both she and Farida are going to Moscow to work.
How wonderful to be in a fertile and green area again. Desert and arid steppe can be draining, especially when trapped in a 40 degrees+ cage with the air-conditioning broken. Actually it ...
THE HOLIDAY INN IS NOT A BUDGET HOTEL
Another big day. About 800km. Nothing really to report. My pannier fell off the bike as I was riding along. The lock had broken when I fell in Croatia and I think the bumpy road completely dislodged it. Anna's helmet saves any damage to the pannier but the helmet is binned.
Arrive in Samara very tired and can’t find any hotels. Finding some hotels wont take foreign ...
Samara
... und ein bissl independence geniessen. Dazu findet sich mit Saschas Hilfe fuer mich ein guenstiges Appartment in Ufa, 500 km weiter noerd-oestlich, und weil das grad so gut passt, nehm ich kurzfristig den naechsten Nachtzug und komm munter und gespannt am naechsten Vormittag in der Hauptstadt der Republik Bashkortostan an.
Eine gute Entscheidung, Ufa hat was das Herz begehrt - Blasenpflaster! bestes Internet, grossartigen Cafes ... und auch viel schoenes Wetter.
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