Almaty, Kazakhstan
Nightmare! Drove east around the lake to discover 10km from the Kazakh border that it was closed. Had to come all the way back to Bishkek, then head for Almaty. Hostel was closed in Almaty when we arrived at 3am, so decided to plough on. Still driving. 32 hours. Semey is the target.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
finally arrived in Tashkent after 21 hours on the road thru the night. Finally found a cash machine as Uzbekistan doesn't do them. Anywhere. Finding out about Tajik visa in the morning.
Volgograd, Russia
got to our hostel at 1am last night having left Kharkov at 8am. Long day. Hostel was rank too. McDonald's breakfast (for the wifi apparently) and we're on the road to Astrakhan to meet dumb and dumber off the plane.
Zhirnov, Russia
after 4 hours at the Ukraine/Russia border we are onto Russian soil. Documents caused all sorts of problems which the Russian border chief was willing to ignore if we gave him our dog as a 'present'. Told him we couldn't do that and he lost interest and let us go through. 400km to Volgograd to do now.
Kharkiv, Ukraine
the outside of our hostel tonight literally looks like "the pit" in series one of the wire. It's nice inside though. Probably gonna wake up without wheels on the car!
Poltava, Ukraine
finally on the road again, Uzbek visa sorted and caliper fixed.
Kyiv city, Ukraine
after a massive drive and a very confusing Ukrainian woman coming for a ride in our car to show us to where we were staying, we got to Kiev last night.@
Suceava, Romania
long days drive and an even longer one to Kiev tomorrow. Think we're all looking forward to sleeping.
Pitești, Romania
Nădlac, Romania
out of Hungary, into Romania.
