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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
... yellow sunflowers Lyn’s ever seen. Not massive seed heads like on the Darling Downs: Then we came into a really dry and dusty region before reaching Rostov-on-Don which is again very flat and intensively farmed with all the above crops, along with lots of potatoes and some tomatoes in plastic greenhouses. There are several huge dams on the Don river and we crossed some irrigation canals as we drove through the rural areas after we ...
Kazakhstan to Russia - What an ordeal
... what with the sexually tense Mongolian-looking Uzbek, who paid us visits all day long. The result was that Sandor has been sent to some other bed and I have made the big Uzbek persona non grata. It could all be my age, too! The men flock to Farida especially, and I get a little sick of all the simplistic flirtation around me. Some of them are good fun, though, and it's interesting how getting on here is all about relationships - with neighbours, ...
THE HOLIDAY INN IS NOT A BUDGET HOTEL
... of registration. On the 5th hotel I give in and just look for anything with a name in English. Thought Holiday Inn was cheap, it’s not and despite having a very nice room Im not happy handing over £165 for the nights stay.
Samara is famous for building rockets and so feeling very guilty that im not looking round these cities I make the effort in the morning to find a ...
Samara
... d'Azerbaijan, et negocions le tarif avec le chauffeur.
Nos deux premieres journees dans Samara ont ete surtout l'occasion de se perdre (en fait cette ville possede un centre completement decentre), et de se fritter avec la poste locale: deux heures d'attente, deux guichets differents, des formulaires dans tous les sens a remplir et re remplir pour finir avec un cout exorbitant pour un pauvre paquet de fringues et deux bouquins. Notre couchsurfeuse Masha ...